Top Michigan Personal Injury Verdicts and Settlements

Hunter Shkolnik of Napoli Shkolnik served as court-appointed co-liaison counsel for individual plaintiffs in the consolidated federal Flint water litigation, which produced a $600 million settlement from the State of Michigan in 2020.

A Detroit federal jury awarded former Michigan inmate Kohchise Jackson $307.6 million after the state's for-profit prison health contractor refused to pay for the $919 surgery that would have reversed his colostomy.

An Oakland County jury awarded $144.5 million after a delayed cesarean left a Macomb Township girl with a permanent brain injury, a verdict the Michigan Court of Appeals later upheld before it was reduced to roughly $42 million.

After spinal surgery at the Detroit Medical Center's Children's Hospital of Michigan left a 10-year-old girl partially paralyzed and permanently incontinent, and her surgeon took two vacations before the hardware came out, a Wayne County jury awarded $135 million.

An Oakland County jury awarded the Tran family $130,571,897 in 2018 after finding that Beaumont Hospital technicians failed to call a code blue or provide chest compressions when a two-month-old infant suffered a breath-hold spell during a renal scan, leaving him with permanent brain damage and cerebral palsy.

A Wayne County jury found Henry Ford Hospital negligent for a delay of over two hours in executing an ordered emergency C-section, awarding $120.9 million to a Detroit mother and her son, who was left with severe cerebral palsy and requires full-time care.

A Wayne County jury awarded $96 million to the widow of a New Jersey father and his college-baseball-star son, both killed when a Challenger Motor Freight semi rear-ended their SUV in a Detroit-area construction zone while the driver was on three Parkinson's disease medications that warned against operating heavy equipment.

An Oakland County jury found Kroger solely liable and awarded HVAC technician Brian Mierendorf and his wife $76.7 million after a failed R-22 refrigerant line at a Bloomfield Township store burned and destroyed most of both his hands.

A Wayne County jury awarded $75 million against Nicholas Remington, who gave 21-year-old Denis Preka a fatal dose of MDMA disguised as Adderall, in what reporters described as Michigan's largest verdict for a single death.

A Wayne County, Michigan jury awarded roughly $55.5 million, among the largest medical malpractice verdicts in the state at the time, against Henry Ford Health System after an emergency room physician sent home a child in respiratory distress who suffered a respiratory arrest the next morning and permanent brain damage. The trial court reduced the gross award to present value and applied Michigan's statutory cap on noneconomic damages, and the Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment in 2005.

A Wayne County jury found the Detroit Medical Center liable for the death of 26-year-old Terrea Holly, whose pulmonary embolism was treated as a virus and sent home from the emergency room.

An Oakland County jury awarded Brian Iminski $32,375,683 after a First Student school bus ran a red light and T-boned his work pickup, leaving him with brain and back injuries.

An Oakland County jury found Warner Bros. and The Jenny Jones Show liable for the wrongful death of Scott Amedure and assessed $25 million, an award the Michigan Court of Appeals later reversed.

A Wayne County jury awarded $22.6 million to port truck driver Burt Holt, who suffered a traumatic brain injury and permanent disability when a negligent driver struck him while he inspected his trailer at a Detroit shipping terminal in 2011.

A Wayne County jury awarded $20,595,570 to Terry Novak after a van driver for FSS Technologies lost control, crossed the center line, and struck Novak while he was clearing snow from his own driveway in Romulus.

A federal jury in Detroit found that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan illegally fired longtime IT employee Lisa Domski after denying her Catholic religious objection to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, awarding her $12.7 million.

A Genesee County jury found the Michigan Department of Corrections liable for race discrimination and retaliation against Lisa and Cedric Griffey and awarded them $11,670,128.33, a verdict the Court of Appeals later affirmed in full.

A Wayne County jury found the City of Detroit negligent after a tire came off a city transit van and struck a 59-year-old veteran in the head, returning an $8.3 million verdict that reached about $10.2 million with interest.

Michigan State University agreed to pay $5 million each to the families of Arielle Anderson and Brian Fraser, two of the three students shot and killed on campus on February 13, 2023, with Ven Johnson negotiating both settlements before any lawsuit was filed.

Cannon & Dunphy recovered $10 million for the husband and two children of a 37-year-old woman who was killed when a Waste Management truck ran a stop sign and struck her van in Kent County, Michigan.

Steven Gursten secured $9 million for a Michigan man who lost both legs after an Atsalis Brothers work truck rear-ended and split his Saturn on I-94, a figure Michigan Lawyers Weekly reported as the state's largest pain-and-suffering recovery of the preceding decade.

A Genesee County jury awarded Amber Briolat $8.3 million for injuries from a 2014 intersection crash, after Auto-Owners Insurance contested fault and offered her only $300,000 before trial.

Geoffrey Fieger won an $8 million Wayne County wrongful death verdict against the Northville Moose Lodge and Leonard's Syrups after an unvented carbon dioxide soda system asphyxiated volunteer Mary Katherine Simpson.

Brian McKeen of McKeen & Associates served as one of the co-lead plaintiff counsel who negotiated an $8 million civil settlement for 43 patients given medically unnecessary cancer treatment by convicted oncologist Farid Fata, approved by Oakland County Circuit Court on July 20, 2016.