Chad Propst

A Jefferson Circuit Court jury awarded $163,973,760 to Jilianne Warner, who was left permanently quadriplegic after a GEICO-dispatched tow truck plowed into her stopped car at highway speed; the verdict was later overturned on appeal.

A Warren County jury awarded $27,335,667.87 after a Monarch Environmental garbage truck parked illegally on a rural Kentucky road put a 17-year-old in a coma for 57 days and left her with permanent brain damage.

A Barren County jury awarded $18.27 million after finding that nurses at T.J. Samson Community Hospital disregarded the treating obstetrician's standing Pitocin orders during a 2007 delivery, depriving newborn Tristan Hamilton of oxygen and leaving him with spastic quadriplegia.

A Christian County jury found Martinrea Hopkinsville, LLC and its crane operator responsible for the 2015 death of delivery driver Gregory Sean Engleman, crushed by a steel coil weighing more than 15,000 pounds, and awarded his family $12,802,165, reported as a record personal injury verdict for the county.

A federal jury in Louisville found U-Haul liable under products liability and negligence theories after a rented tow dolly and the Ford Contour on it swayed on Interstate 65 in October 2002, flipping the family Explorer and leaving Corry Burke a quadriplegic. The jury awarded about $11.6 million and put 10 percent of the fault on the driver, so $10.5 million stood. Judge Heyburn denied U-Haul's post-trial motions in June 2007.