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June 2016 Jury Trial
Our client incurred $22,792.22 in medical expenses. The jury awarded our client a full and fair verdict of $65,000.00 for her harms and losses caused by this wreck. Before trial, the insurance company only offered $9,985.00 as their last and final offer. We had made a demand and counsel for the parties agreed to a mediation. The mediation was a complete and utter failure and the insurance company only offered $8,500.00 at the mediation. We stopped negotiating at all at that point. After the mediation, we never made another demand to settle the case. The insurance company increased their offer by what we consider pennies a couple of times ending just shy of $10,000.00.
August 2011 Jury Trial
On August 1, 2011, our firm won a Plaintiff’s verdict of $655,000.00 here in Campbell County in a personal injury automobile accident case. The Plaintiff was driving to her son’s school when the defendant pulled out in front of her at an intersection in Appomattox. At the time of trial, the Plaintiff’s medical bills were just over $55,000.00. Her expected future medical expenses were in between $250,000.00 and $478,000.00. The defense admitted liability but contested the extent of the Plaintiff’s injuries. The defense offered $140,000.00 to settle before trial but our client refused to settle the case for less than it was worth. The jury deliberated for less than two hours and returned a verdict for $655,000.00.
June 2010 Jury Trial
On June 8, 2010, our client won a $500,000.00 jury verdict in Campbell County Circuit Court against the Lynchburg Livestock Market, Inc. The trial lasted three days and our attorneys presented evidence for over a day and a half. The jury deliberated for approximately an hour and a half before returning a significant Plaintiff’s verdict.