Chris Rhodes

The widow and four daughters of Christopher Crump, a 32-year-old Army veteran, received $32.5 million after his car became trapped under a Tyson Foods tractor-trailer with defective lighting in the pre-dawn darkness, a result reported as Georgia's largest single-plaintiff pre-trial wrongful death settlement at the time.

An 11-year-old girl was shot and killed by a stray bullet while sleeping in her Griffin, Georgia apartment; her family's legal team overcame an assault-and-battery insurance exclusion by proving the complex had misrepresented its security features, recovering the full $6 million policy limit.

A 15-year-old was shot and killed near the entrance of Creekside Forest Apartments in South DeKalb, where security guards were alleged to be taking cuts of drug deal proceeds and the complex gate sat broken, leading to a $3 million settlement at the full insurance limit.

Malcolm Jordan, 22, was struck from behind by an Arnold Moving Company box truck whose driver was allegedly texting while driving, causing Jordan's disabled car to spin into a guardrail and catch fire; he died twenty days later from his injuries, and a federal jury awarded nearly $4 million to his parents and the mother of his young child.