Matt D'Amore

A federal jury in Pendleton held two trucking companies and their drivers responsible for a 90-mile road-rage chase that ended in a fatal head-on crash, returning a $26.5 million verdict that survived the defendants' appeal intact.

A Multnomah County jury found a property management company and a private security firm liable after one of the firm's unlicensed armed guards shot and killed Freddy Nelson Jr. in a Lowe's parking lot, returning $21.25 million to his family.

An arbitration panel ordered Safeco to pay more than $1.2 million to Canby teenager Connor Zieg after a driver with a .285 blood alcohol level fell asleep, drove onto the sidewalk, and ran him over, though a policy cap held his actual recovery to $500,000.

A Wasco County jury found Mid-Columbia Medical Center negligent for keeping anesthesiologist Frederick Field on staff despite years of complaints, awarding $950,000 including punitive damages to a patient he assaulted while she was sedated.

A Clark County jury found scaffolding contractor Safway Services 65 percent at fault after welder Charles Pamplin fell from an unsecured 11-foot scaffold at a Vancouver oil-rig fabrication yard.