Personal Injury Attorneys in District of Columbia

A federal court in Washington, D.C. awarded $1.956 billion to 114 survivors and Gold Star family members in Carlson Law Firm's second successful default-judgment lawsuit holding Iran liable for the October 2000 USS Cole bombing.

A federal court in Washington, D.C. awarded $807 million to 58 USS Cole bombing survivors and immediate family members after finding that Iran provided material support to the al-Qaeda operatives who carried out the 2000 attack.

On June 14, 1998, a Smithsonian Institution bus ran a red light in Washington, D.C. and hit the car of an 18-year-old driver, causing a severe brain injury, paralysis on his left side and lasting wheelchair dependence. After separate bench trials on liability and damages, a federal judge found damages of about $23.9 million on September 10, 2003 and entered judgment against the United States for $20 million, the most the Federal Tort Claims Act allowed on his administrative claim. The government appealed, then agreed to dismiss the appeal in December 2004 after a satisfaction of judgment was filed.

A DC Superior Court jury awarded $17.1 million to the three children of Tiffaney Dunbar, 33, who died in February 2017 after a nurse practitioner at MedStar Washington Hospital Center's Women's Wellness Clinic failed to diagnose and disclose an ectopic pregnancy.