Top Individual Louisiana Personal Injury Verdicts and Settlements

A Twenty-Pound Steel Scaffold Bar Slipped From a Co-Worker's Hands and Hit Him on the Head. He Was 25, in a Hard Hat, and a Baton Rouge Jury Awarded $411.6 Million.

Jose Valdivia, 25, was building scaffolding at the Phillips 66 refinery in Lake Charles when a co-worker above him lost his grip on a steel scaffold bar. It struck him on the head and spine through a hard hat and full protective equipment. He is in a wheelchair with limited speech. Brock never reported the accident to OSHA.

After trial: This is a verdict on appeal and not a recovery. It is the largest single-plaintiff personal-injury verdict in Louisiana history as entered, and no JNOV, remittitur or reversal has been found, but Brock has stated it will appeal on workers' compensation exclusivity grounds and the appeal is live. The insurance behind it is also contested: excess insurers Everest Insurance (Ireland) DAC and Ascot Syndicate 1414 filed a coverage action in the Southern District of New York in July 2025 (1:25-cv-05886). Louisiana does not cap damages in an ordinary tort case, so no statutory reduction applies, but Louisiana appellate courts review general damages de novo on the record and routinely reduce them. Treat the figure as the jury's number, not as money paid.

The School's After-School Run Club Routed Six-Year-Olds Through the Carpool Lane While Parents' Cars Were Moving.

A 6-year-old girl was killed in the parking lot of a Slidell Catholic school. The school's after-school Run Club sent children as young as six along a route that crossed the afternoon carpool lane while cars were moving. Her 10-year-old brother watched it happen.

After trial: This is a verdict and not a recovery, and its post-trial path is unresolved. Plaintiffs' counsel said publicly that he expected the school and its insurers to appeal. No appellate opinion, JNOV or remittitur has been located and there is no evidence of collection. Two things make the number worth reading cautiously. Louisiana appellate courts review general damages de novo on the record and remit them routinely, and in a case in this state a $155 million general-damages award was cut to $40 million on exactly that basis. And the defence structure here is a school plus three separate layers of insurer, each separately represented, which makes collectability a live question at this figure. The Archdiocese of New Orleans was not a defendant in this case.

She Was Starting an IV in the Back of a Moving Ambulance When a Pickup Turned Across Its Path. The Jury Said $219.9 Million.

Sherri Tramble, 36, was a St. Landry Parish paramedic riding unrestrained in the back of an ambulance, starting an IV on a patient en route to hospital, when a pickup turned across the ambulance's path without yielding. She has multiple skull fractures, a C-7 fracture and a permanent traumatic brain injury, and has since been interdicted.

After trial: Remitted on appeal, and the figure here is approximate. The jury returned $219,910,110.82 on September 23, 2024. The trial court reduced past medicals to $885,991.13, producing a second amended judgment of $219,742,924.13 on October 4, 2025. In July 2026 the Louisiana Third Circuit affirmed liability and every evidentiary ruling but remitted general damages from $155,500,000 to $40,000,000 and future medicals from $61,433,984 to $41,300,219. The roughly $84.1 million figure is arithmetic off the surviving judgment components rather than a total the court itself stated, so read it as reduced to roughly $84 million on appeal and not as an exact judgment. Whether a writ was taken to the Louisiana Supreme Court after July 2026 is not confirmed. The Louisiana Supreme Court separately denied Arch Insurance's writ and stay over garnishment (2026-CC-00250). One correction: several summaries give the verdict as $219,190,110; both the verdict reporter and the opinion say $219,910,110.

$9 Billion Punitive Verdict Against Takeda and Eli Lilly in First Federal Actos Bladder Cancer Trial

Paul Pennock, now head of mass torts at Morgan & Morgan, then co-lead counsel of the federal Actos MDL at Weitz & Luxenberg, helped try the bellwether case that produced a $9 billion punitive verdict against Takeda and Eli Lilly for hiding the diabetes drug's bladder cancer risk. The award was later cut to about $36.9 million, but the verdict drove Takeda to a $2.4 billion global settlement in 2015.

After trial: In October 2014 Judge Rebecca Doherty cut the $9 billion punitive award by more than 99 percent, to $27.6 million against Takeda and $9.2 million against Eli Lilly, on top of the $1.5 million the jury awarded in compensatory damages. Takeda resolved the Actos litigation in a global settlement of about $2.4 billion in April 2015.

The Cement Truck Hit Her Stopped Car at Speed and Drove the Back Seats Into the Front. Her Father, a Guard Medic, Arrived in Minutes and Could Not Revive Her.

Katie Carmouche was stopped on Highway 1 waiting to turn into her children's daycare with her three children in the back seat. A cement truck rear-ended her at high speed, crushing the back of the car and shoving it into oncoming traffic. Her 8-year-old daughter was killed; her two sons were badly injured.

After trial: Affirmed in part. The jury returned $35,357,826.72 on February 7, 2025 after a four-day damages-only trial, liability having been resolved by partial summary judgment finding the cement-truck driver solely at fault. In May 2026 the Louisiana Third Circuit vacated and reversed the $250,000 awarded to Jake Carmouche for future pain and suffering and affirmed the remainder, including his $3,000,000 bystander award, rejecting the defendants' arguments to cut the bystander awards to $275,000 each and to reduce the wrongful-death awards. The defendants' motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict had been denied below. Two caveats: the decision is rehearing-eligible and one judge dissented in part, so a Louisiana Supreme Court writ is possible and is not confirmed either way. And the Louisiana Jury Verdict Reporter index gives the verdict as $35,327,824 while the opinion's own itemization sums to $35,357,826.72; we use the opinion.

They Sent the Crew Down With 8.4-Pound Fluid Where 10.5 Was Needed to Hold Back the Gas, and Never Wrote a Completion Plan.

AIX Energy ordered a workover cleanout on a Claiborne Parish well using completion fluid far too light to hold back the formation's gas pressure, and never wrote or circulated a completion plan to the crew. Gas broke out and ignited. Jeremy Shephard, the toolpusher, was burned over a third to half of his body.

After trial: Amended and rendered on appeal, with a collectability ceiling well below the judgment. The jury awarded Shephard $17,480,438.03; the Louisiana Second Circuit reduced the future lost wages component and rendered an amended total of $17,130,468.03 on May 23, 2018 (No. 51,965-CA, 249 So.3d 194), disposition affirmed in part, amended in part, rendered. AIX Energy was in Chapter 11 (In re AIX Energy, N.D. Tex. No. 15-34245) and the decree limits recovery from AIX to insurance proceeds, fixing St. Paul Fire & Marine's liability to Shephard at $7,983,886.74. On scope: the suit carried two injured workers and their spouses, and the opinion opens by describing a total of about $22.45 million to the two men, but the money judgments are itemized and rendered per plaintiff rather than pooled, so Shephard's award is one man's recovery and is recorded as individual.

Arrested for Cursing in a Doughnut Shop, He Was Pepper-Sprayed, Slammed Head-First Into the Floor and Left 90 Minutes Where No Camera Could See. The Coroner Called It Homicide. A Monroe Jury Returned $42.75 Million; the Court Cut It to $16.7 Million, and Both Sides Are Appealing.

Erie Moore Sr., 57, a mill worker with no criminal record, was arrested on October 12, 2015 for disturbing the peace at a Monroe doughnut shop and taken to Richwood Correctional Center, a private jail LaSalle Corrections ran for the city. Over about 36 hours guards pepper-sprayed him repeatedly, struck him on the head, slammed him head-first into the floor, and left him roughly 90 minutes in an area with no cameras and no medical check. He died on November 14, 2015 of a brain hematoma; the parish coroner ruled it a homicide. On October 20, 2025 a federal jury awarded his three children $42,750,000. In May and June 2026 the court remitted it to $16,741,148.84 with a further fault reduction, and both sides appealed.

After trial: On appeal by both sides, so nothing here is final. The October 20, 2025 verdict was $42,750,000 ($19,500,000 compensatory including $6,000,000 in wrongful-death damages to each of three children, plus $23,250,000 punitive), with fault 88 percent to the defendants, 10 percent to the City of Monroe and 2 percent to the decedent. On May 7, 2026 (Doc. 737) the court remitted wrongful-death damages to $3,080,382.95 per plaintiff and cut punitive damages to $6,000,000 as constitutionally excessive. On June 17, 2026 (Doc. 756) it stated the revised judgment as $16,741,148.84 and held the 12 percent comparative-fault reduction also applies to the remitted wrongful-death award, giving $2,710,737.99 per plaintiff, and set aside the plaintiffs' earlier acceptance so they could accept or reject that figure; a rejection would mean a new trial on wrongful-death damages alone. Both sides have noticed appeals to the Fifth Circuit. The figure ranked here is the court's own stated revised judgment; after the 12 percent reduction the total is lower, roughly $15.6 million by arithmetic, and it may change again. Collectability: no payment has been reported, so the disclosure stays at not public. Attribution: Nelson W. Cameron's website is no longer online, so his practice is a record-only entry here with no profile page.

A Work Truck Was Backing Against Traffic at 1 mph With Its Front Tire Over the Fog Line in the Live Lane. He Hit It at 65.

Barber Brothers was reopening an I-10 exit in LaPlace after a night of asphalt work. Its supervisor was backing an F-250 against traffic along a shoulder so narrow that the truck's left front tire sat over the fog line in the live lane. Frank Cushenberry hit it at 65 mph in a box truck and left the road with a traumatic brain injury.

After trial: Amended twice by the Louisiana Supreme Court, and the net figure involves one unconfirmed step. The jury returned $18,946,634.65 in January 2021. On June 28, 2024 the Louisiana Supreme Court (No. 2023-C-00788) reallocated fault to 80 percent Barber Brothers and 20 percent Cushenberry and reduced general damages to $5,000,000 and consortium to $400,000 plus $100,000 per child. On rehearing on December 19, 2024 it reinstated the jury's $10,750,000 general-damages award and amended consortium upward to $1,000,000 for his wife and $500,000 per child. The awards that stand total $15,446,634.65, which at 80 percent recoverable comes to roughly $12.36 million. Whether the 80/20 fault reallocation itself survived rehearing is not confirmed from a primary source: the rehearing opinion addressed quantum, and contemporaneous reporting still describes Cushenberry as 20 percent at fault while quoting the total as approximately $15.45 million, which is the pre-reduction sum. Read the figure as approximate for that reason.

He Lit a Cigarette in a Space Where LNG Vapour Had Collected. The Jury Still Put 95 Percent of the Fault on the Vessel Operator.

Paul Galland was a deckhand doing repairs aboard an LNG-powered supply vessel at Port Fourchon. LNG vapour had accumulated near a vent on the fly deck. He lit a cigarette and it flashed. He escaped by jumping between decks, breaking his leg on the way down, and suffered severe burns.

After trial: The verdict is the public figure and the final recovery is confidential. The jury returned $9,958,001 on November 4, 2025 and apportioned 5 percent of the fault to Galland, leaving $9,460,101. No judgment was ever entered: on February 9, 2026 the court granted a joint consent motion and dismissed the action with prejudice, which is the signature of a post-verdict settlement whose amount was not disclosed. Read the figure as the jury's award and not as money paid. On scope, the action also carried a second injured deckhand as a co-plaintiff, so the case is multi-plaintiff, but the verdict form awarded the entire sum to Paul Galland alone, which is why this is recorded as an individual result.

A Dump Truck Went Over an Interstate Bridge Rail and Burned. The State Had Built the Rail, and a Jury Made It Pay.

Jerrod Snearl, 22, was riding in the middle of the front seat of his employer's empty dump truck on the way to a tree-clearing job when the driver swerved on the I-12 overpass at Jefferson Highway in Baton Rouge, the brakes locked, and the truck rode up over the bridge rail and fell about 30 feet onto the bank of Ward's Creek, where it caught fire. The driver burned to death. Snearl, trapped with a broken pelvis, was burned over 51 percent of his body and lost both legs, his penis, a testicle and his spleen. An Iberville Parish jury found the state's bridge rail an unreasonable risk of harm and awarded him $9,352,826.67, which the First Circuit affirmed in 2001 while raising the driver's fault and reallocating it to the state.

After trial: Affirmed. The First Circuit raised the co-employee driver's fault from 10 to 35 percent but, applying pre-1996 Louisiana comparative fault law (Gauthier v. O'Brien), reallocated that fault to DOTD, so the state remained liable for the full $9,352,826.67 to Snearl. The only reduction was to his mother's separate consortium award, cut from $300,000 to $125,000, which is not included in the ranked figure. Writs denied by the Louisiana Supreme Court, 01-1319 and 01-1320, June 22, 2001. DOTD's excess insurer tried to intervene on appeal, asserting exposure above the state's $1,000,000 self-insured retention; the intervention was dismissed as untimely. Whether and when the state paid is not public. The firm's own results page lists a $13,800,000 settlement for a bridge-rail double amputation, which may be this case with interest and costs, but nothing independent confirms that figure.

She Was Driving to Buy a Dress for a Child Patient's Funeral. The Work Truck Behind Her Never Slowed, and the Oncology Nurse Never Worked Again.

Alise Ardoin was a 26-year-old pediatric oncology nurse. On her day off she was driving to a Lafayette mall to buy a dress for the funeral of one of her child patients. A commercial pickup rear-ended her at roughly 40 mph and pushed her into the car ahead, whipping her head in two directions. The brain injury and the headache disorder that followed ended her nursing career.

After trial: The jury returned $9,141,750 on August 15, 2025 before Judge Cynthia Spadoni in the 15th Judicial District Court, Lafayette Parish, No. 19-5629. The Louisiana Jury Verdict Reporter records that the figure was increased to about $12 million in the judgment once judicial interest was added, which in Louisiana runs from the date of filing. We publish the verdict rather than the interest-inclusive judgment. No appeal, remittitur or motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict has been located, and the Louisiana Third Circuit record shows nothing, so treat this as an entered judgment whose appellate fate is not yet known. One sourcing caveat: the Louisiana Jury Verdict Reporter is the only source located for the counsel line and the itemization. It is independent of both firms, which is what matters, but there is no second source corroborating it. Louisiana caps nothing relevant here; the state's only general damages cap applies to claims against the state and its agencies under La. R.S. 13:5106, and no public entity was a defendant.

The Manila Rope Holding a 131-Pound Pipe Broke Forty Feet Above Him, and the Landing Zone Had Never Been Cleared. A $27.7 Million Verdict Was Paid Out at $6.45 Million.

Walter Jackson, 48, was a rigger on an offshore platform 65 miles south of Lake Charles. The crew was lowering sections of corroded firewater pipe when the manila rope holding a 131-pound section broke. He was standing in a landing zone nobody had cleared, and it killed him instantly.

After trial: Paid and satisfied, which is rarer than a large verdict. The jury returned $27,707,930 on February 2, 2023. The February 10, 2023 final judgment applied the 88 percent fault allocation, giving $17,705,600 to the son and $6,677,378 to the widow; that step is arithmetic, not a remittitur. On September 28, 2023 the district court granted remittitur, cutting the son's general damages to $4,360,708.59 and the widow's to $5,104,226.22. The Fifth Circuit affirmed on March 28, 2025 in Warner v. Talos ERT, 133 F.4th 412 (No. 23-30755), except for the remittitur of the widow's general damages, which it vacated and remanded. On remand the district court reduced her general damages to $1,115,808.70; an amended judgment was entered June 13, 2025 and a Satisfaction of Judgment was filed July 1, 2025. The approximately $6.45 million total is computed from those components because the amended judgment itself is not public.

A Pipefitter's Mesothelioma Verdict Survived the Louisiana Supreme Court Vacating It and Sending It Back Under a New Rule for Reviewing Damages. On the Second Look, It Stood Again.

David Stauder Jr., a union pipefitter, was exposed to asbestos at Louisiana industrial plants including Union Carbide's facility in Taft through the 1960s and 1970s. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma in his seventies and died within two months, on April 30, 2015. His two daughters tried the case against Union Carbide, the last defendant standing, and in December 2021 a New Orleans jury returned $10,354,620.31 and assigned Union Carbide 20 percent of the fault. The judgment against it came to about $6.19 million, and it survived two rounds in the Fourth Circuit and a Louisiana Supreme Court vacatur before the writ was finally denied in April 2025.

After trial: Reduced by fault allocation, then affirmed twice and final. The jury's $10,354,620.31 verdict of December 17, 2021 was entered on April 14, 2022 as $693,004.90 of the survival award (one-seventh, which matches a virile-share division among seven solidary tortfeasors, though the opinions do not use that phrase) plus $2,750,000 to each daughter, about $6.19 million against Union Carbide with judicial interest from March 2, 2016. The Fourth Circuit affirmed on February 15, 2023 (No. 2022-CA-0593, 382 So.3d 138); the Louisiana Supreme Court granted the writ and vacated on January 17, 2024 (376 So.3d 837) for reconsideration under Pete v. Boland Marine; the Fourth Circuit affirmed again on June 3, 2024 (409 So.3d 1); and the Supreme Court denied the writ on April 23, 2025 (406 So.3d 1175). The $6,193,004.90 figure is the sum of the judgment's components. Collectability: no source reports payment, so the disclosure stays at not public.

Baton Rouge Pays $4.5 Million to Alton Sterling's Five Children After Fatal Police Shooting

The City of Baton Rouge agreed to pay $4.5 million to the five children of Alton Sterling, who was fatally shot by police outside a Baton Rouge convenience store in July 2016, after the East Baton Rouge Metro Council approved the settlement in February 2021.

Losing Two Teaspoons of Fluid Killed the Steering. Teleflex Had Known Since 1989 and Weighed the Risk of Mass Hysteria Against Printing a Decal.

Derek Hebert, 22, was thrown from a boat when its Teleflex hydraulic steering failed at speed. With the kill switch not engaged, the boat kept circling under power and its propeller struck him nineteen times. Teleflex had known since 1989 that losing two or three teaspoons of fluid causes total steering failure.

After trial: Final at $4,375,000. The jury returned $23,125,000 on December 29, 2014, comprising $125,000 compensatory and $23,000,000 punitive; the compensatory figure is low because the other defendants settled. The Louisiana Third Circuit affirmed in full on June 29, 2016. On October 18, 2017 the Louisiana Supreme Court (No. 2016-C-1647) held the punitive award unconstitutionally excessive and reduced it to $4,250,000, applying roughly a 2:1 ratio to the relevant compensatory damages. The case remains the leading Louisiana authority that punitive damages are available under general maritime law against a products defendant.

A Locomotive Fan Housing Was Lying Loose on the Shop Floor. He Leaned Against It to Sit Down and It Rolled Onto His Foot.

Michael Waller, a 17-year electrician at Kansas City Southern's Shreveport Diesel Repair Shop, leaned against a locomotive fan housing left lying loose on the shop floor. It shifted onto its side and pinned his left foot, crushing it at the ankle and heel.

After trial: Amended on appeal. The jury returned $5,380,665.06 in gross damages, comprising $3.94 million in general damages and $396,104.34 in future medical expenses, and found Kansas City Southern 80 percent at fault with 20 percent to Waller. The trial court entered judgment for the full gross amount; on November 26, 2025 the Louisiana Second Circuit amended the judgment to apply the 20 percent comparative share the jury had assessed, producing $4,304,532.05. FELA is the exclusive remedy for a railroad worker against his employer and it expressly allows comparative reduction, so this is the statute operating as designed rather than a remittitur for excessiveness.

At Four Times the Legal Limit He Tore a Wheel Off His Truck on a Guardrail and Drove 800 Feet on Three. The Wheel He Left in the Road Put Her Into the Next Guardrail. A Morehouse Parish Jury Added $3 Million in Exemplary Damages, and the Second Circuit Let All of It Stand.

On October 26, 2016 Gerald Farrar, with a blood alcohol content of 0.346 percent, struck a guardrail on U.S. Highway 425 in Morehouse Parish hard enough to tear the right front wheel off his truck, then drove about 800 feet on three wheels and left the wheel in the road. Monica Duran hit it and crashed into a guardrail, suffering a concussion, a back injury and neurological damage. A jury awarded her $843,155 in compensatory damages and $3,000,000 in exemplary damages for the drunk driving. On April 10, 2024 the Louisiana Second Circuit affirmed every dollar.

After trial: Affirmed in full and final. The jury's award of $843,155 in compensatory damages and $3,000,000 in exemplary damages under La. C.C. art. 2315.4 was affirmed by the Louisiana Second Circuit on April 10, 2024 (Duran v. Allmerica Financial Benefit Insurance Co., Nos. 55,599-CA c/w 55,600-CA), which upheld the approximately 3.56 to 1 exemplary-to-compensatory ratio. No cap applies to a private-defendant tort claim in Louisiana. Collectability: the exemplary award runs against an individual drunk driver and exemplary damages are generally outside liability coverage; no source reports payment, so the disclosure stays at not public.

An 18-Year-Old Stepped Off the Hearne Avenue Bridge on a Dark, Rainy Night and Was Hit by a Taxi Leased for the Day for $85. He Never Walked or Talked Again. A Caddo Parish Jury Returned $6.34 Million.

On the dark, rainy evening of January 13, 2020 Daffacio Randall, 18, was crossing on foot at the Hearne Avenue bridge in west Shreveport when a taxi hit him. He suffered a broken arm, a lacerated liver and kidney, two collapsed lungs and a severe brain bleed that needed an emergency craniotomy that night. He never walked or talked again and died of an infection on October 10, 2020. On August 7, 2025 a Caddo Parish jury awarded his parents $6,341,479 and assessed 30 percent of the fault to the driver and 30 percent to VIP Taxi, leaving $3,804,887.40 recoverable.

After trial: Reduced by the jury's own fault allocation. The $6,341,479 verdict of August 7, 2025 carried 30 percent of the fault to the driver and 30 percent to VIP Taxi, so under Louisiana's comparative-fault regime $3,804,887.40 is the recoverable share, and that is the figure ranked here. The Louisiana Jury Verdict Reporter reported that no final judgment had been entered as of its September 2025 issue, and no appeal has been confirmed; the verdict is recent and post-trial motions could still move it. A $2,326,413 figure sometimes attached to this case is the survival-claim component only. Collectability: no source reports payment, so the disclosure stays at not public. Attribution: Patrick R. Jackson, APLC has no website and is a record-only entry here with no profile page; Kyle McCotter now practises under his own name at the same Bossier City address.

For Decades She Washed Her Husband's Work Clothes, Caked in Dust From the Boilers Foster Wheeler Kept Stripping and Re-Insulating With Asbestos. The Jury Gave Her Nothing for Pain. The Judge Fixed That.

William Berry worked at the West Monroe Paper Mill from 1961 to 2010. Foster Wheeler installed the mill's two five-story boilers in the mid-1960s, sheathed in asbestos, and came back every year to strip and reinstall that asbestos in what he described as a dust storm. He wore his work clothes home; his wife Lynda washed them daily for decades. In 2015, at 65, she was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma. An Ouachita Parish jury awarded medical expenses but nothing for her suffering; the judge added $3,000,000 in general damages on JNOV. The judgment against Foster Wheeler, one-half virile share of $4,500,000, was $2,250,000, affirmed in 2019.

After trial: The figure that stood is $2,250,000, and it is lower than the $4,500,000 in damages because of Louisiana's pre-1996 virile-share rule, not because any court cut the damages. The jury's award was revised on JNOV to $3,000,000 general damages, $500,000 past medicals and $1,000,000 future medicals, and judgment was rendered against Foster Wheeler for one-half of that total, the other half being the virile share of non-party Olin Corporation. The Second Circuit affirmed on May 22, 2019 (Berry v. Anco Insulations, No. 52,671-CA), upholding the JNOV, the $1,000,000 future-medical award and the refusal to expand virile-share credits, with all costs to Foster Wheeler. Collectability: no source reports payment, so the disclosure stays at not public.

The Card Reader on the Hotel Door Was Broken, So Anyone Could Walk In. The Cameras Recorded the Night Clerk's Murder, and Nobody Was Watching Them. A DeSoto Parish Jury Put Half the Blame on the Motel.

Lynda Palmer, 75, was working the night shift at the front desk of the Best Western Plus DeSoto Inn & Suites in Mansfield, Louisiana on April 12, 2021 when she was shot and killed in a robbery. The card reader that controlled entry to the hotel was broken, and although the surveillance cameras recorded the entire crime, nobody was monitoring them. On February 21, 2025 a DeSoto Parish jury awarded her two adult daughters $2,000,000 each and assessed 50 percent of the fault to the motel, leaving $2,000,000 cast to it.

After trial: Reduced by the jury's own fault allocation, not by a court. The $4,000,000 verdict of February 21, 2025 carried a 50 percent assessment to the motel and 50 percent to the murderer, so under Louisiana's comparative-fault regime (La. C.C. art. 2323 and 2324) the amount cast to the motel is $2,000,000. The Louisiana Jury Verdict Reporter is the only source for the verdict; it reports no entered judgment, JNOV or appeal, DeSoto Parish has no public docket search, and the caption and docket number are unconfirmed. The pre-trial settlement with the hotel operator is undisclosed and is not included. Collectability: no source reports payment, so the disclosure stays at not public. Attribution: the firm has since become Scott Chafin Law.