Mercaldo Law Firm

A Pima County jury awarded a Tucson teenager and his parents $9,143,500 in March 2007 after he was struck at 15 in the crosswalk outside Mountain View High School. The jury put 79 percent of the fault on the driver, 20 percent on Pima County, which operates the road, and 1 percent on the teenager. The county's share came to about $1.8 million. The teen suffered life-threatening injuries, including nearly seven weeks in a coma.

A Pima County jury awarded Sharon King $5.29 million after she lost her arm following shoulder replacement surgery at Oro Valley Hospital, where the operating surgeon mistakenly tied off her axillary artery and the neurovascular bundle supplying the limb.

A Pima County jury awarded Amanda Hoover $4 million, sixteen times what Banner-University Medical Center Tucson had offered to settle, after a laparotomy sponge left in her abdomen during a cesarean section worked its way through the wall of her colon.

A 14-year-old boy riding his bicycle on East Broadway in Tucson was struck and killed on Jan. 12, 2008 by a drunk driver whose lane ended at a road-widening gap the city had left unfinished. His parents sued the driver, the city and a restaurant that had served her. The family settled with the city in 2012 for $2 million and a public naming, after a 2010 jury trial and an appeal.

Tucson Medical Center and a physician gave James Monaco a radioactive phosphorus 32 dose meant for a different condition, raising his leukemia risk and leaving him with post-traumatic stress disorder. A Pima County jury awarded the Monacos $1.5 million. The Arizona Court of Appeals affirmed the verdict and judgment in 1999.