Jarrod Summey

Three people died and a child was seriously injured when a 20-year-old drove the wrong way on Interstate 85 after a night of underage drinking supplied by bars and a fraternity; Maginnis Howard's Shawn Howard helped secure an $8.62 million settlement against 18 of the 19 defendants one month before trial.

Maginnis Howard secured a $2.5 million settlement for 6,858 North Carolina patients after proving that medical-records processor MRO Corporation systematically charged copying fees that exceeded the state statutory cap, entitling each class member to a full refund of unlawful charges plus a penalty of roughly $205 per violation.

A $1.25 million settlement resolved a wrongful-death claim against the City of Winston-Salem after a probationary city landfill operator, distracted by personal phone calls, backed a bulldozer into Waste Management driver Thomas Thompson and killed him.

A jury awarded $760,035 to a news reporter who suffered a fractured tibia after a municipal truck driver struck and then backed over his leg in a Huntersville parking lot, and the NC Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed the verdict over a contributory-negligence challenge.