Actual Case (not my case): $16.5 Million for pain and suffering was affirmed (approved) by the 4th District Court of Appeal for a 20 year old man who was rendered paraplegic after he was hit by a Jeep while he was on a motorcycle in Martin County, Florida.
$11.5 Million of the award was for future pain and suffering, disability, physical impairment, disfigurement, mental anguish, inconvenience, aggravation of a disease or physical defect or loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life. [Read more…]
This is not my case but there was a $12 Million dollar verdict for the parents of a boy who was killed when his mother claimed that he was hit by a minivan. Rather than just provide the facts of the case and verdict, I explain why I think the verdict was so high and my opinions on the verdict. 
In this article I discuss the pain and suffering award in a verdict. This is not my verdict, though I have settled many 
Just because an insurance card is given to a police officer at the time of an accident, it does not mean that the driver has insurance. 
I represented a man in his 20’s who was T-boned by a driver. The other driver had $10,000 of 