Michael Goldberg

A Fulton County jury awarded $25 million against MARTA after a 66-year-old paratransit rider fell descending an awkwardly angled bus step and suffered catastrophic brain damage that left her in a vegetative state.

A Cobb County jury awarded $20 million after a tractor-trailer ran a red light in Kennesaw and left a 57-year-old Pakistani immigrant with permanent, catastrophic brain damage.

A Gwinnett County jury returned a $16.2 million verdict against Amazon Logistics after finding the company bore employer responsibility for a contract delivery driver who struck and seriously injured an eight-year-old child in a residential subdivision.

A DeKalb County jury awarded $16.66 million to a 21-year-old who suffered a traumatic brain injury and lasting mobility limitations after a chain-reaction crash on I-285 sent his car underneath a Brown Trucking Company big rig.

A Clayton County jury returned an $8 million verdict for U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Ronnie Stevens after a dump truck driver struck a construction barrel on I-75, launching it into Stevens's path and shattering his ankle and wrist.

A Cobb County State Court jury awarded $5 million in September 2019 to Salvador Reyes, an 18-year-old Campbell High School student who fractured his skull and suffered frontal lobe brain damage in a bubble soccer game run by Game Truck Georgia, LLC. The jury assigned 7 percent of the fault to Reyes, which brought the judgment to about $4.65 million. In June 2021 the Georgia Court of Appeals reversed the judgment and ordered a new trial.

A DeKalb County State Court jury awarded Stephanie Nelson $3.5 million in August 2015 after a Rural/Metro ambulance rear-ended her stopped car in 2011. The driver and the ambulance company admitted fault and fought only over how badly she was hurt. She had a cervical fusion and never returned to her job as a hospital pharmacy technician. The jury deliberated for less than an hour.

A Douglas County State Court jury found Douglas Hospital 100 percent at fault after Carolyn Byrom fell while getting out of a hospital wheelchair in 2013 and broke her leg. Her lawyers said she never walked again. The jury awarded $2,665,511.46 in July 2018, made up of $2.5 million for pain and suffering and $165,511.46 in medical expenses.