Top Nevada Personal Injury Verdicts and Settlements

Real Water Poisoning: $3.8 Billion Verdict in Alkaline Water Liver Failure Cases

A Clark County jury awarded $3.8 billion against Real Water on March 21, 2025, after finding the Las Vegas alkaline water company liable for poisoning consumers with hydrazine-contaminated product that caused acute liver failure, autoimmune disease, and death.

After trial: The $3.8 billion verdict includes about $3 billion in punitive damages that plaintiffs' attorney Will Kemp says will be cut to roughly $1.4 billion under Nevada's statutory cap limiting punitive damages to three times compensatory damages. Real Water is bankrupt and no longer operating, so any payout will have to come from its insurers.

Nevada Opioid Litigation: $1.1 Billion in Settlements Against 40+ Manufacturers, Distributors, and Pharmacies

Retained as outside counsel to the Nevada Attorney General, Eglet Adams drove more than $1.1 billion in opioid settlements across 12 agreements with over 40 defendants, including Walgreens, McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and Johnson & Johnson.

Route 91 Harvest Festival Shooting: $800 Million Settlement With MGM Resorts

Kevin Boyle of the firm served as one of three plaintiffs' co-lead counsel in the $800 million settlement with MGM Resorts for victims of the 2017 Route 91 Harvest festival mass shooting at Mandalay Bay.

$800 Million Settlement for Route 91 Harvest Shooting Victims Against MGM Resorts

An $800 million settlement from MGM Resorts International resolved claims by more than 4,400 plaintiffs over the October 1, 2017 Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting in Las Vegas, one of the largest victim-compensation settlements in U.S. history.

$550 Million Wrongful-Death Verdict After Driver Hit 107 mph on Drugs and Alcohol

A Clark County jury awarded $550 million, $50 million compensatory and $500 million punitive, to Nimfa Escobia after her husband Marcial was killed by a driver traveling 107 mph while impaired by alcohol, methamphetamine, ecstasy, and marijuana.

After trial: Nevada caps punitive damages at three times compensatory damages, which exposes the $500 million punitive portion of this verdict to reduction toward roughly $150 million if that cap is applied on appeal; no appellate ruling has been reported yet. The verdict is against an individual driver, Kevin Raspperry, whose insurer had already paid policy limits to the vehicle's owner rather than to him, so the judgment against him personally is largely uncollectable.

$505 Million Verdict Against Teva and Baxter for Propofol Vials That Spread Hepatitis C Across Las Vegas

A Clark County jury awarded Henry and Lorraine Chanin $505 million against Teva Parenteral Medicines and Baxter Healthcare after finding that both companies supplied oversized propofol vials to Las Vegas endoscopy clinics, enabling the reuse that infected Henry Chanin with hepatitis C.

After trial: Settled after the verdict: the $505 million award stood until February 2012, when the case was resolved as part of Teva's global propofol settlement before the Nevada Supreme Court ruled. The amount paid to the Chanins was not made public.

$524 Million Verdict Against UnitedHealth Subsidiaries Over a Hepatitis C Outbreak

A Clark County jury ordered Health Plan of Nevada and Sierra Health Services to pay $524 million after finding the UnitedHealth Group subsidiaries negligently credentialed a gastroenterologist whose unsafe injection practices at his Las Vegas endoscopy clinics caused the largest medically caused hepatitis C outbreak in American history.

After trial: In September 2013 the trial court reduced the $524 million jury award to about $366 million on post-trial motions. Health Plan of Nevada appealed in December 2013, and no source confirms how that appeal was finally resolved.

$182.6 Million Verdict Against Drug Companies in Las Vegas Hepatitis C Outbreak

A Clark County jury awarded five hepatitis C patients $182.6 million against Teva, Baxter Healthcare, and McKesson after finding the companies negligently distributed oversized propofol vials to Las Vegas endoscopy clinics without adequate warnings against multi-patient reuse.

After trial: The $182.6 million verdict was made up of $20.1 million in compensatory damages and $162.5 million in punitive damages against Teva, Baxter, and McKesson. Rather than litigate its appeal, Teva agreed in February 2012 to pay roughly $250 to $285 million to settle about 120 remaining Las Vegas hepatitis C lawsuits, though the settlement's allocation to this specific verdict was not disclosed.

$160.5 Million Verdict, Then a Confidential Settlement, for a Brain Injury at the Cosmopolitan Nightclub

A Las Vegas jury awarded hedge fund manager David Moradi $160.5 million after Cosmopolitan security personnel beat him at the Marquee nightclub and left him with a traumatic brain injury, and a confidential settlement followed during deliberations on punitive damages.

After trial: Settled after the verdict: the jury returned $160.5 million in compensatory damages in April 2017, and the case settled on undisclosed terms that week while the jury was deliberating punitive damages. The settlement replaced the verdict, so what was paid is not public.

$114 Million Verdict Against USAA for Bad-Faith Handling of Rear-End Crash Claim

A Clark County jury awarded Timothy Kuhn $114 million after USAA spent years stonewalling his claim from a 2018 rear-end collision it had originally conceded was not his fault.

After trial: USAA filed a notice of appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court in March 2025 challenging the judgment; as of the briefing schedule in January 2026 the appeal was still being briefed, with no ruling issued.

$104 Million Verdict for Air Force Veteran Who Contracted Hepatitis C from Reused Propofol Vials

A Clark County jury awarded retired Air Force veteran Michael Washington and his wife Josephine $104 million after finding that propofol manufacturers Teva Parenteral Medicines and Baxter Healthcare knowingly supplied oversized anesthetic vials that clinics routinely reused, spreading hepatitis C to patients.

After trial: Rather than pursue collection or fight an appeal, the Washingtons joined roughly 120 other plaintiffs in a $285 million global settlement Teva Pharmaceuticals announced in February 2012 to resolve the Nevada propofol hepatitis C litigation. The amount actually paid to them individually was not disclosed.

$101 Million Bad-Faith Verdict Against Progressive After Crosswalk TBI

A Clark County jury awarded $101 million against Progressive, $1 million compensatory and $100 million punitive, after the insurer delayed paying Hal Goldblatt's medical bills for months following a 2022 crosswalk collision that caused a traumatic brain injury.

$100 Million Settlement: Grand Canyon Helicopter Crash Kills Five, Including Newlywed Jonathan Udall

A Clark County judge approved a $100 million settlement in January 2024 for the families of five tourists killed when a Papillon Airways helicopter crashed in the Grand Canyon, with Lawrence J. Smith of the firm then known as Bertoldo Carter Smith and Cullen serving as local plaintiff counsel alongside lead counsel Gary Robb and Anita Porte Robb.

After trial: A court-approved settlement covering the families of five people killed in the crash.

Clark County Jury Awards $56.5 Million to Navy Servicemember Beaten Outside Chayo Mexican Kitchen at the LINQ

In 2021, Omar Alrabadi was beaten unconscious by two men after a dispute that began inside Chayo Mexican Kitchen and Tequila Bar and spilled onto the LINQ Promenade in Las Vegas. A Clark County jury found Caesars Entertainment and Three Amigos Restaurant Group each 50 percent responsible for security failures and awarded $56.5 million on August 7, 2026. The award was $15 million in past damages and $41.5 million in future damages. The jury assigned no fault to Alrabadi.

After trial: We found no post-trial motion or appeal filed as of October 2026, and plaintiff counsel has said he expects no preserved appellate issues. We could not confirm whether the award has been paid or how the 50/50 fault split affects what each defendant owes.

Las Vegas Jury Awards $47 Million to Woman Left With Locked-In Syndrome After Sodium Overcorrection

A Clark County jury found Amy Geiler's losses worth just under $47 million after hospital doctors raised her dangerously low blood sodium too quickly, causing permanent brainstem damage and locked-in syndrome.

$41.5 Million Verdict for Teen Who Suffered Burns Over 90% of His Body in Motocross Gear Defect Case

A Clark County jury awarded $41.5 million to a young man who sustained third-degree burns over 90 percent of his body after the motocross clothing he wore failed to protect him from a fuel fire, finding LeMans Corporation liable for selling gear that was not fire-retardant.

$38.8 Million Verdict Against Republic Services After Garbage Truck Killed 11-Year-Old in Crosswalk

A Clark County jury returned $38.8 million against Republic Services after one of its garbage trucks turned through a marked crosswalk and struck and killed an 11-year-old girl who was crossing with the walk signal.

A Soldier Shot in an Apartment Parking Lot, and a $38.6 Million Negligent Security Verdict

A Clark County jury returned $38,625,000 against the owner of a Las Vegas apartment complex after National Guard Specialist Dylan Salazar was shot to death in its parking lot, the second-largest wrongful death verdict in the country in 2020.

$21 Million Settlement for Family of Mother of Three Killed by Drunk Driver in Las Vegas

Melissa Newton, a 36-year-old mother of three, was killed in May 2019 when real estate broker Scott Gragson crashed his Range Rover while drunk in The Ridges, a gated Las Vegas community. Settlement documents filed in her family's wrongful-death suit put the payout at $21 million, with $12.8 million coming from Gragson personally and $8.2 million from his insurer. Gragson pleaded guilty to DUI causing death and DUI causing substantial bodily harm.

Clark County Jury Awards $20 Million to Teen Hurt When a Swing Set Crossbar Fell on His Head

In February 2018 a Clark County jury awarded $20 million, split evenly between compensatory and punitive damages, against the Lamplight Village at Centennial Springs homeowners association. A 15-year-old boy had suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2013 when a metal crossbar on a community swing set broke and struck his head. Jurors found the association failed to inspect and maintain the playground equipment. The association appealed, but the Nevada Supreme Court dismissed the appeals by stipulation in 2020 and the verdict stood.

After trial: The verdict stood after the Nevada Supreme Court dismissed the association's appeals on the parties' stipulation in January 2020. The plaintiff agreed not to collect from individual homeowners while the association pursued its insurer, and that dispute ended in a stipulated dismissal in 2022. See more