About Jed Manton
Jed D. Manton is a founding partner and trial lawyer who has spent more than 20 years representing families in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. He focuses on cases where the official account does not match the facts, working through investigation, reconstruction, and trial preparation to uncover causes that were hidden or misattributed. His practice covers trucking and auto wrecks, catastrophic injury, road defects, product liability, wrongful death, medical malpractice, aviation, and insurance disputes. Manton secured a $27 million verdict in Fielder v. Latium USA Trading LLC for a client critically injured in a truck accident. He is a graduate of Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law and Dartmouth College.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A DeKalb County jury awarded $40 million to Jessica Mundy and her husband after her 2004 Ford Explorer spontaneously shifted from park into reverse, striking and running over her, after the trial team showed Ford had known about the 'false park' transmission defect for decades.
A Fulton County jury awarded $35 million to the family of Joshua Chang, a 21-year-old Yale student killed when his car struck a concrete planter on the shoulder of Batesville Road, finding the City of Milton 93% responsible for leaving a dangerous obstacle in the right-of-way.
A Gwinnett County jury awarded $30.5 million in November 2016 after finding that Gwinnett Medical Center and an attending physician failed to act on an ultrasound showing abnormal fetal blood flow at 35 weeks, delaying an emergency C-section long enough to deprive a newborn of oxygen and cause permanent spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy.
A box-truck driver crossed a double yellow line to pass a tractor on Georgia Highway 44 in November 2020, setting off a chain-reaction crash that left an 81-year-old driver with a fractured spine, sternum and arm and 45 days in the hospital. A federal jury in Macon returned a verdict of $26,895,400 against the driver and his employer. The court cut the punitive award to Georgia's $250,000 cap, applied the plaintiff's 10 percent share of fault and added prejudgment interest, entering judgment of $7,208,970.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
