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A Santa Clara County jury awarded $65 million to one of two plaintiffs, $102.5 million in total, against Union School District after finding it failed for years to act on repeated warnings about music teacher Samuel Neipp's sexual abuse of students at Dartmouth Middle School.

A Monterey County jury returned an $18.7 million verdict against Caltrans and a trucking company after finding the state had ignored three decades of its own data showing that the left-turn configuration on Highway 156 made the road one of California's most dangerous corridors.

Evergreen School District paid $15 million to four families whose second-grade daughters were sexually molested by teacher Craig Chandler at O.B. Whaley Elementary School in San Jose.

An Alameda County jury returned a $13.7 million verdict for the families of three San Jose workers whose Honda was struck head-on by a commercial truck after two other big rigs set off a chain-reaction crash inside a dense tule fog bank on State Route 152 in November 2012.

A Marin County jury found Tamalpais Union High School District 100% negligent for its PE teacher and tennis coach's 2003 sexual abuse of a student, awarding the survivor $10 million -- a verdict the district failed to overturn on appeal.

Morgan Hill Unified School District paid $8.25 million to three families after their daughters were molested by teacher John Loyd over two school years, with the district agreeing to mandatory predator-identification training for all staff.

A developmentally disabled college student won a $7.6 million settlement after Raymond Ruiz, an instructional aide in Mission College's disability program, sexually assaulted her on campus in May 2020 while the district ignored longstanding warning signs about his conduct.

Santa Clara County Superior Court approved a $4.6 million settlement against Sharks Sports and Entertainment after coach Kevin Whitmer serially abused a youth hockey player at Sharks Ice facilities.