Top Individual Arizona Personal Injury Verdicts and Settlements
The 10 largest individual personal injury results in Arizona on record here, ranked by amount: one client's, one family's, or one incident's recovery, never a pooled fund. Each links to the full story, the firm, and the record behind the number.
Browse personal injury lawyers in Arizona →- $45.5 millionVerdictWrongful Death
$45.5 Million Verdict for Family of Developmentally Disabled Woman Who Drowned in Phoenix Group Home
A Maricopa County jury awarded $45.5 million to the family of a 26-year-old woman with severe developmental disabilities who drowned while unsupervised at a Phoenix group home operated by Developmental Systems Inc.
- $31,550,825VerdictMedical Malpractice
$31.5 Million Verdict, an Arizona Record, After a Hospital Kept Raising Pitocin While a Baby's Heart Rate Signaled Distress
A Maricopa County jury found Banner Health and physician Dr. Laurie Erickson negligent in the 2014 delivery of Greyson Griepentrog, who suffered oxygen deprivation and cerebral palsy after nurses kept increasing his mother's Pitocin dose despite fetal heart tracings showing distress, and returned a $31,550,825 verdict, the largest medical malpractice award in Arizona history.
After trial: Banner Health's motion for a new trial was denied by the trial judge on April 23, 2024. No confirmed appellate outcome has been reported since.
Dordick Law Corporation2023 · Maricopa County Superior Court, Arizona (Case No. CV2020-052367)Read the full story → - $17 millionVerdictProduct Liability
Gallagher & Kennedy Wins $17 Million Verdict Against GM Over a Deadly Park-to-Reverse Defect
A Phoenix jury ordered General Motors to pay $17 million for the wrongful death of a Scottsdale woman crushed by her own pickup, a verdict the Arizona Court of Appeals later set aside over a flawed jury instruction.
Gallagher & Kennedy Injury Lawyers1999 · Maricopa County Superior Court, Phoenix, AZ (rev'd & remanded, Ariz. Ct. App. 2003)Read the full story → - $11.75 millionSettlementCivil Rights
$11.75 Million Settlement After Jail Deputies Saw an Unconscious, Beaten 18-Year-Old on Two Walkthroughs and Kept Walking
Brian Ortiz, 18, was beaten by another inmate at Maricopa County's Fourth Avenue Jail; deputies saw him unconscious during two separate walkthroughs and did not intervene, and he did not reach a hospital until more than two hours after the assault. Maricopa County settled the resulting civil rights lawsuit for $11.75 million.
After trial: The case settled in 2022 without a trial, so there was no verdict for either side to appeal. No further litigation between the Ortiz family and Maricopa County has been publicly reported.
Scottsdale Injury Lawyers LLC2022 · U.S. District Court for the District of ArizonaRead the full story → - $11 millionVerdictPremises Liability
$11 Million Verdict for Widow After Brain-Injured Man Dies Neglected at Phoenix Assisted Living Facility
A Maricopa County jury awarded $11 million to the widow of a brain-injured man who died after ingesting plastic bags, condiment packets, and other foreign objects while left unsupervised at a Phoenix assisted living facility.
- $5.29 millionVerdictMedical Malpractice
$5.29 Million Verdict After a Shoulder Replacement Surgeon Tied Off the Artery Feeding His Patient's Arm
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.
After trial: No appeal of the verdict was found in public reporting.
- $4,050,000SettlementPaidCivil Rights
$4.05 Million From Maricopa County After a Man in Mental Health Crisis Was Restrained Face-Down and Left Unattended in a Jail Cell
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors approved a $4,050,000 settlement with the family of Akeem Terrell, a 31-year-old man who died in a county jail cell on New Year's Day 2021 after Phoenix police and sheriff's detention officers restrained him face-down and then left him motionless on the floor without checking on him.
After trial: This settlement resolves the claims against Maricopa County only. The City of Phoenix separately settled its own portion of the case for $800,000; the two payments involved different defendants and different conduct and should not be combined into a single figure.
- $4 millionVerdictMedical Malpractice
$4 Million Verdict After a Surgical Sponge Left Inside a New Mother Migrated Through the Wall of Her Colon
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.
After trial: No appeal of the verdict was found in public reporting.
- $3.6 millionVerdictProduct Liability
First Bard IVC Filter Bellwether Trial Ends in $3.6 Million Verdict for Sherr-Una Booker
Gallagher & Kennedy's Robert Boatman and Mark O'Connor served as lead plaintiffs' counsel in the Bard IVC filter MDL, and the first federal bellwether trial in Phoenix ended with a $3.6 million verdict, including $2 million in punitive damages, for Sherr-Una Booker.
Gallagher & Kennedy Injury Lawyers2018 · U.S. District Court, District of Arizona (Phoenix)Read the full story → - $1.5 millionVerdictSlip & Fall
$1.5 Million Verdict Against BCI Coca-Cola After Tucson Grocery Store Slip and Fall
A Tucson jury awarded $1.5 million to a woman who slipped on water leaking from a BCI Coca-Cola refrigerator at a grocery store, after the bottling company rejected a $150,000 settlement offer.
Hollingsworth Kelly Law2009 · Pima County Superior Court (affirmed Arizona Court of Appeals 2011; Arizona Supreme Court 2014)Read the full story →
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Gallagher & Kennedy's Kevin Neal and Kenneth Ralston served as Arizona's outside counsel and secured an $85 million settlement from Google over the deceptive collection of smartphone users' location data.
A Maricopa County jury awarded $58.5 million to families who donated deceased relatives' bodies believing they would be used for medical research, only to learn the Biological Resource Center of Arizona had dismembered and sold the remains to brokers worldwide.
A Maricopa County jury awarded $45.5 million to the family of a 26-year-old woman with severe developmental disabilities who drowned while unsupervised at a Phoenix group home operated by Developmental Systems Inc.
A Maricopa County jury found Banner Health and physician Dr. Laurie Erickson negligent in the 2014 delivery of Greyson Griepentrog, who suffered oxygen deprivation and cerebral palsy after nurses kept increasing his mother's Pitocin dose despite fetal heart tracings showing distress, and returned a $31,550,825 verdict, the largest medical malpractice award in Arizona history.
A Phoenix jury ordered General Motors to pay $17 million for the wrongful death of a Scottsdale woman crushed by her own pickup, a verdict the Arizona Court of Appeals later set aside over a flawed jury instruction.
Hired by the Arizona Attorney General to lead the trial team, Gallagher & Kennedy helped secure an $11.8 million settlement against Choice Home Warranty over deceptive home warranty sales to Arizona consumers.
Brian Ortiz, 18, was beaten by another inmate at Maricopa County's Fourth Avenue Jail; deputies saw him unconscious during two separate walkthroughs and did not intervene, and he did not reach a hospital until more than two hours after the assault. Maricopa County settled the resulting civil rights lawsuit for $11.75 million.
A Maricopa County jury awarded $11 million to the widow of a brain-injured man who died after ingesting plastic bags, condiment packets, and other foreign objects while left unsupervised at a Phoenix assisted living facility.
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.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors approved a $4,050,000 settlement with the family of Akeem Terrell, a 31-year-old man who died in a county jail cell on New Year's Day 2021 after Phoenix police and sheriff's detention officers restrained him face-down and then left him motionless on the floor without checking on him.
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.
Gallagher & Kennedy's Robert Boatman and Mark O'Connor served as lead plaintiffs' counsel in the Bard IVC filter MDL, and the first federal bellwether trial in Phoenix ended with a $3.6 million verdict, including $2 million in punitive damages, for Sherr-Una Booker.
A Tucson jury awarded $1.5 million to a woman who slipped on water leaking from a BCI Coca-Cola refrigerator at a grocery store, after the bottling company rejected a $150,000 settlement offer.
AJ Law, PLC secured a $575,000 settlement from the City of Peoria after the Arizona Supreme Court reversed dismissal of a wrongful death claim brought by the mother of a 12-year-old boy killed at an uncontrolled intersection in 2018.
Louis Hollingsworth secured a $400,000 jury verdict for a Tucson woman who slipped and fell entering a Safeway store, netting $360,000 after a 10% comparative-fault finding against her.
Gallagher & Kennedy's Patrick McGroder and Matthew Boatman represented 12 families of the Granite Mountain Hotshots killed in the 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, settling with the State of Arizona for $50,000 per family plus a list of safety commitments.
A confidential federal civil rights settlement resolved claims that Glendale, Arizona police officers tased a restrained passenger 11 times during a 2017 traffic stop, including once in the genitals while he was handcuffed face-down on summer pavement.