Top Ohio Personal Injury Verdicts and Settlements

Weitz and Luxenberg Co-Lead Counsel in $2.5 Billion DePuy ASR Hip Implant Settlement

Ellen Relkin served as court-appointed co-lead plaintiffs counsel in the DePuy ASR hip implant MDL, helping negotiate a $2.5 billion settlement for roughly 8,000 patients who required revision surgery after the metal-on-metal device failed.

DuPont C-8 Water Contamination: $671 Million Settlement After a String of Trial Wins

Cory Watson's Jon Conlin, a co-lead lawyer on the plaintiffs' steering committee, helped drive DuPont and Chemours to a $670.7 million global settlement resolving about 3,550 C-8 water-contamination cancer and injury claims.

Lake and Trumbull Counties Win $650 Million Opioid Abatement Against CVS, Walgreens and Walmart

A federal jury found CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart liable for creating an opioid public nuisance in northeast Ohio, leading to a $650 million abatement judgment, the first of its kind against pharmacy chains in U.S. history.

Federal Jury Finds CVS, Walgreens and Walmart Liable in Ohio Opioid Case, $650 Million Abatement Ordered

After a six-week federal trial, a jury found three of the nation's largest retail pharmacy chains created a public nuisance by flooding Lake and Trumbull Counties, Ohio with opioid pills, and a judge ordered $650 million to fund a 15-year abatement plan.

$787 Million Verdict Against Absent Vietnamese Bunk Bed Maker After Toddler's Death

A federal jury in Columbus assessed $787 million in damages against Moash Enterprise Company Limited, the Vietnamese manufacturer of a bunk bed that killed a two-year-old boy, after the company was defaulted for never appearing in the case. The court later cut the award to $615 million under Ohio's punitive damages cap, and nothing in the record shows the judgment has been collected.

After trial: The jury returned $787 million but the judgment actually entered was $615 million, after the court cut punitive damages from $522 million to $350 million under Ohio's cap. The manufacturer never appeared and has no United States assets, so the judgment is effectively uncollectable; the American importers and retailer settled separately in July 2022 on undisclosed terms.

$260 Million Eve-of-Trial Settlement in First Federal Opioid Bellwether Case for Cuyahoga and Summit Counties

Hours before opening arguments in the first federal opioid bellwether trial, Cuyahoga and Summit counties in Ohio secured a $260 million settlement from distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson, plus manufacturer Teva.

$134 Million Verdict for Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivor Leads Ohio Supreme Court to Strike Damages Cap

A Cuyahoga County jury awarded $134 million to a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, and the Ohio Supreme Court later struck down a statutory damages cap as unconstitutional when applied to child victims of intentional criminal acts.

After trial: In December 2022 the Ohio Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that Ohio's statutory cap on noneconomic damages is unconstitutional as applied to child sexual-abuse survivors with catastrophic psychological injuries, reversed the appeals court, and reinstated the full $134 million jury verdict. Defendant Roy Pompa is serving life without parole for the underlying convictions, so the judgment against him individually is likely largely uncollectable.

$100 Million Settlement Ends Ohio State's Strauss Abuse Litigation, Covering Nearly 280 Survivors

Ohio State University agreed to pay $100 million to 279 of 280 remaining plaintiffs who sued the university over decades of sexual abuse by former team physician Dr. Richard Strauss; Estey and Bomberger was among co-counsel firms representing survivors.

$82.1 Million for a Motorcyclist Who Lost Two Limbs, the Largest Trucking Verdict in Ohio History

A Jefferson County jury awarded $82,105,345.70 to Michael Shank, a motorcyclist whose left arm and left leg were amputated after a commercial truck struck him near Steubenville. The verdict is reported as the largest trucking verdict in Ohio history, in a case the defense had offered $350,000 to settle.

After trial: No appeal or reduction had been publicly reported as of September 2026.

$60.7 Million Settlement for Child Left with Brain Injury After Touching Downed FirstEnergy Power Line

A 12-year-old Cleveland girl suffered a profound brain injury and partial limb loss after touching an energized, downed Cleveland Electric Illuminating power line that had been left unrepaired for days following Hurricane Sandy; her family settled all claims for $60.7 million, the largest individual personal injury settlement in Ohio history.

Columbus Jury Hits DuPont With $50 Million in C-8 Cancer Case

A federal jury in Columbus found that DuPont's C-8 contamination caused Travis Abbott's testicular cancer and awarded him and his wife $50 million. After the trial court applied Ohio's cap on his wife's loss-of-consortium damages, the enforceable judgment came to about $40.3 million, which the Sixth Circuit later affirmed.

$44.5 Million for a Boy Left Locked In After a Lab Sat on Urgent Test Results for Six Days

A Franklin County jury awarded $44.5 million to a southeastern Ohio boy left with locked-in syndrome after Athens Medical Laboratory took six days to report markedly abnormal STAT blood tests, and the trial court then refused to apply Ohio's noneconomic damages cap, holding it unconstitutional as applied.

After trial: The trial court struck Ohio's noneconomic damages cap as unconstitutional as applied in December 2018. The verdict was never reversed and remains the operative trial judgment, subject to settlement credits.

Teen Passenger Left With a Brain Injury Wins $34.6 Million Against a Dump Truck Company

A Cuyahoga County jury awarded a combined $42.4 million in October 2014 to Joshua Rojas ($34.6 million) and Kiara Torres ($7.8 million), two teenage passengers who suffered brain injuries when the car they were riding in collided with a Concrete Designs Inc. dump truck; Andy Young, now of The Law Firm for Truck Safety, served as trial counsel, and in 2019 Ohio's Eighth District affirmed the verdicts while vacating a later prejudgment interest award.

After trial: The Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals affirmed both verdicts in April 2019 but vacated the prejudgment interest award.

$30.95 Million Ohio Birth Injury Verdict Against Miami Valley Hospital After Uterine Rupture During Labor

A Montgomery County jury awarded the Stanziano family $30,953,181 in July 2009 after finding Miami Valley Hospital negligent in a birth injury case, reportedly the largest medical malpractice verdict in Ohio at the time. The parties then reached a confidential settlement before the punitive damages phase, so the amount actually paid was less than the verdict.

After trial: The parties settled confidentially before the punitive damages phase, so the family received less than the verdict amount. The settlement figure was never disclosed.

$28 Million Verdict for Family of Duke Energy Lineman Killed by Rotted Pole Utilimap Failed to Inspect

A Hamilton County jury returned a verdict of nearly $28 million against Utilimap Corp. after the firm's inspectors skipped a rotted utility pole that collapsed and killed Duke Energy lineman Keith Jester in 2014.

Franklin County Jury Awards $27 Million in Short North Bartender's Beating Death

A Franklin County jury awarded $27 million to the estate of Gregory Coleman Jr., a 37-year-old bartender beaten to death by security workers outside the Julep bar in Columbus's Short North, finding the bar's ownership 80 percent at fault for negligent hiring and supervision.

$26 Million Verdict for Blind Nursing Home Resident Who Aspirated, Then Waited 42 Minutes for Ambulance

A Trumbull County jury awarded $26 million to the estate of Stephen Tate, a blind, brain-injured resident of Signature HealthCARE of Warren who aspirated while eating lunch unsupervised and died after staff waited about 42 minutes to call an ambulance. The award, reported as the largest nursing home verdict in Ohio history, was won by Michael A. Hill, then of Eadie Hill Trial Lawyers and now of Michael Hill Trial Law.

After trial: No appellate opinion disturbing the verdict and no publicly announced settlement had been reported as of September 2026.

$22.5 Million Verdict Against TQL in Newborn's Death After Denied Work-From-Home Request

A Hamilton County jury found freight brokerage Total Quality Logistics responsible for the death of an employee's newborn daughter after the company refused the mother's request to work from home during a high-risk pregnancy, apportioning 90 percent of a $25 million compensatory award to TQL.

After trial: Net of fault: the jury awarded $25 million and placed 90 percent of the fault on TQL, for a $22.5 million judgment. TQL said it was evaluating its options, but no post-trial ruling or payment has been reported as of October 2026.

$14.5 Million Verdict for Child Born at 25 Weeks After MetroHealth Delayed Emergency C-Section

A Cuyahoga County jury awarded $14.5 million to a boy born at 25 weeks with cerebral palsy and developmental delays after MetroHealth Medical Center's staff refused his mother's repeated requests for a C-section and watched the baby's condition deteriorate for more than three hours before performing an emergency delivery.

Columbus Federal Jury Awards $12.5 Million in DuPont C-8 Cancer Trial

A Columbus federal jury awarded Kenneth Vigneron Sr. $2 million in compensatory and $10.5 million in punitive damages after finding DuPont's C-8 contamination caused his testicular cancer.