Motor Vehicle Accidents

• $3.5 million - $3.5 million wrongful death settlement against concrete company and mobile home business. A mother was driving home in Orange County, Virginia, after birthday shopping for one of her two daughters when she was killed by a concrete truck that drove off the road to avoid hitting a wide load, a mobile home being hauled to a homesite for installation. At the time of this accident, the permit for hauling the mobile home had expired and the mobile home should not have been on the road. When the concrete truck drove back onto the road it hit the Johnson car head-on. (1999)

• $3.4 million settlement - $3.4 million settlement against the defendant and his employer, an auto dealership. Our client was passing the defendant near Farmville, Virginia, when he forced her off the road, causing severe injuries including paraplegia. (2003)

• $2 million - $2 million settlement against manufacturer of Jeep vehicles used by the United States Post Office for mail delivery. A design defect caused instability resulting in a rollover. (1996)

• $2 million settlement - $2 million settlement against manufacturer of boat trailer for failure to warn. The boat trailer was being hauled on the interstate when the trailer began to sway, causing the driver's vehicle to leave the highway and rollover. The driver suffered a spinal cord injury resulting in paralysis. (1994)

• $1.95 million - $1.95 million confidential settlement for injuries suffered when two wheels came off a tractor-trailer, crossed the median strip and hit our client's pick-up truck in southwest Virginia. (1999)

• $1.2 million - $1.2 million wrongful death settlement against a cell phone tower company and its employee who was driving while intoxicated, crossed a double-yellow line and struck a Ford Taurus in which Ms. Cash was riding as a passenger. The employee driver had a history of D.U.I. and drunk in public arrests and convictions. Claims were filed asserting negligence by the driver and the company's negligence in hiring and retaining this individual as a driver of company trucks. Case was filed in Fairfax County, Virginia. (2003)

• $1,045,000 - $1,045,000 confidential settlement for loss of leg and other injuries suffered in head on collision. (1999)

• $925,000 - $925,000 verdict in Albemarle County for injuries resulting from negligent laparoscopic surgery where physician inexperienced in the use of the laparscopic instrument punctured client's ureter during surgery, causing her to develop peritonitis. (1997)

• $600,000 - $600,000 confidential settlement in a case where the prescription of narcotic medication, phenergan and valium resulted in a fatal accidental overdose. (2003)