Largest Nevada Personal Injury Verdicts Never Collected

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A federal jury in Nevada found Ford's pickup parking brake defective and held that the company should have warned owners, returning a verdict near $153 million after three-year-old Walter White was killed by a truck that rolled in the family driveway. Shanin Specter of Kline & Specter tried the case.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

A Clark County jury awarded $19,854,217 to Thomas Novick, a construction worker run over by a 14,000-pound rough-terrain forklift, in a case tried by John Shook of Shook & Stone.

A Clark County jury awarded $15 million to the wife and son of Eric Echevarria, 52, killed in December 2020 when Zaon Collins drove 88 mph through a 35-mph zone in Las Vegas.

A Clark County jury awarded $15 million after Harvey Chernikoff, an intellectually disabled paratransit rider, choked to death on a First Transit bus whose driver ignored monitoring rules and was never trained in CPR, a verdict the Nevada Supreme Court later affirmed in full.