Recent Trial Verdicts

According to Michigan Lawyers Weekly, a trial attorney from Michigan Auto Law has received the top reported trial verdict in Michigan for a car accident or truck accident in 7 of the past 10 years.

Below are some of our recent trial results:

• Macomb County: $5,650,000 verdict for contested traumatic brain injury, knee replacement surgery, broken jaw and separated shoulder on a $600,000 settlement offer. The offer at trial was increased to $1,000,000 and then $2,000,000 while the jury was deliberating.
• Oakland County: $4,250,000 verdict for contested traumatic brain injury and depression. $100,000 settlement offer.
• Jackson County: $3,500,000 verdict for contested traumatic brain injury, depression, two fractured vertebrae and no surgery on a $1,000,000 settlement offer from Zurich Insurance Company.
• Macomb County Circuit Court: $2,550,000 wrongful death verdict for conscious pain and suffering and for loss of society for 83-year-old man on a $250,000 pre-trial settlement offer from Secura Insurance. The offer was increased to $500,000 while the jury was deliberating.
• U.S. District Court: $2,500,000 verdict for contested traumatic brain injury and a shoulder injury with no surgery. No visible vehicle damage. $250,000 settlement offer from Northland Insurance Company at trial.
• Washtenaw County: $2,000,000 verdict for contested traumatic brain injury with no loss of consciousness and no visible vehicle damage on $0 offer from State Farm Insurance Company throughout the trial.
• Lenawee County: $2,000,000 verdict for contested traumatic brain injury and rotator cuff shoulder surgery on a $100,000 settlement offer from Farm Bureau Insurance Company.
• Macomb County Circuit Court: $1,485,000 verdict for lumbar disc herniation and surgery on a $0 offer from State Farm. Minimal vehicle damage. Contested causation.
• Wayne County: $1,450,000 verdict for a 60-year-old man with rotator cuff and neck surgery. Case evaluation award was $175,000. $400,000 offer from Acuity Insurance Company.
• Wayne County: $1,400,000 verdict for contested traumatic brain injury on a $85,000 settlement offer from Auto-Owners Insurance Company.
• Court of Claims - Ingham County: $1,400,000 verdict for right shoulder injury and four surgeries on a $250,000 settlement offer from the State of Michigan.
• Wayne County: $1,250,000 verdict for contested traumatic brain injury and tinnitus on a $80,000 settlement offer from American Alternative Insurance Group.
• Oakland County: $1,100,000 verdict for a 64-year-old male retiree with a herniated cervical disc only and no surgery. Case evaluation award was $25,000, and Allstate Insurance Company’s settlement offer was $10,000.
• U.S. District Court: $1,100,000 verdict for back surgery on a $90,000 settlement offer from Reliance Insurance Company.
• Macomb County: $1,000,000 verdict for disc herniation on a $0 offer from Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.
• Michigan Auto Law has also received 8 trial jury verdicts of $1 million dollars or more on defense insurance company offers of between $0 to $30,000.