Top Oklahoma Personal Injury Verdicts
The largest jury verdicts and court judgments in Oklahoma won for one client or family, ranked by the amount that stood. Each links to the full story, the firm, and the record behind the number.
Browse personal injury lawyers in Oklahoma →- $90.13 millionVerdictReduced from $126 millionNot collectableCivil Rights
$126 Million Verdict for a Teen Hit by an Off-Duty Police Sergeant, $90.1 Million Judgment Stands
On December 14, 2019 Emily Gaines, an 18-year-old Moore High School senior, was driving to take the ACT when Sgt. Kyle Lloyd of the Moore Police Department, off duty and rushing a key to another officer's patrol car for a department event, hit her broadside at 95 to 100 mph in a 50 zone. She died at the scene. On April 1, 2026 a federal jury returned $126,000,000. The court entered $90,000,000 against Lloyd, who is in prison, and cut the $36,000,000 against the City to $125,000 under Oklahoma's Governmental Tort Claims Act.
After trial: Reduced by statute. The $126,000,000 verdict of April 1, 2026 was entered April 6, 2026 as $90,000,000 against Kyle Lloyd on the Section 1983 claim and $125,000 against the City of Moore, capped by the Oklahoma tort claims act.
Laird Hammons Laird and Hicks Law Firm2026 · U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, Oklahoma CityRead the full story → - $33 millionVerdictCivil Rights
$33 Million Verdict for Man Who Begged for a Doctor for Twelve Days in Ottawa County Jail and Died
Terral Ellis II, 26, walked into the Ottawa County Jail voluntarily on an outstanding warrant. He developed bronchopneumonia and spent twelve days asking for medical care for seizures, sweating and pain. Jail video captured staff and the jail nurse mocking him. He died of septic shock on October 22, 2015.
After trial: Affirmed in full. The jury returned $33,000,000 in compensatory damages on September 8, 2023, and the Tenth Circuit affirmed on April 21, 2026 (Nos.
Smolen & Roytman2023 · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma (affirmed in full, 10th Cir. 2026)Read the full story → - $17.5 millionVerdictMedical Malpractice
$17.5 Million Verdict for Patient Whose Surgeon Cut a Femoral Nerve During Hernia Mesh Removal
On July 2, 2018 Justin Fulton, 32, had surgery to remove hernia mesh. He woke with his right leg numb and fell to the floor when he tried to stand, because his right quadriceps would not work. Nerve studies showed no motor or sensory function in his right femoral nerve: the surgeon had cut into it and not recognized it. The injury is permanent. The defense offered $200,000. On April 7, 2022 an Oklahoma County jury voted 11 to 1 for the Fultons and awarded $17,500,000, entered as a judgment in May and released and satisfied in July 2022.
After trial: Judgment of $17,500,000 entered May 13, 2022 and never reduced by a court. The defendant's new trial motion was struck as settled after a release and satisfaction of judgment was filed on July 6, 2022.
- $15 millionVerdictWorkplace Injury
Oklahoma Supreme Court Restores Abel Law Firm's $15 Million Crane Verdict and Strikes the State's Damages Cap
The Oklahoma Supreme Court restored the full $15 million jury award for oilfield worker Todd Beason, who lost part of an arm when a crane boom fell on him, and held the state's $350,000 cap on noneconomic damages unconstitutional.
Abel Law Firm2019 · Oklahoma County District Court, Oklahoma City (Judge Patricia Parrish); verdict restored on appeal by Oklahoma Supreme Court, 2019 OK 28Read the full story → - $10 millionVerdictReduced from $10.3 millionCivil Rights
$10.25 Million Verdict for Paralyzed Man Left on Tulsa Jail Cell Floor for Days, Settled for $10 Million
Elliott Earl Williams, 37, was arrested in Owasso on an obstruction complaint in October 2011. Shortly after booking at the Tulsa County Jail he suffered a severe neck injury that paralysed him from the chest down. He was left on the floor of a medical-unit cell, unable to move, for days, and died of complications of the untreated injury and dehydration.
After trial: Paid. The jury returned $10,250,000, and the Tenth Circuit affirmed liability and the awards on August 20, 2019 (935 F.3d 960), remanding only on a possible setoff.
Smolen & Roytman2019 · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma (affirmed in relevant part, 10th Cir.; settled and paid 2019)Read the full story → - $8,000,000VerdictProduct Liability
$8 Million Verdict for Man Who Died of Mesothelioma at 38 From Asbestos on His Stepfather's Clothes
Brennen Atkeson was exposed to asbestos as a child, second-hand, from dust carried into the family home on the work clothes of his stepfather, an oilfield worker. The fibers came from raw asbestos put into drilling-mud products and from drilling-rig products. He developed mesothelioma and died at 38.
After trial: Affirmed. The $8,000,000 compensatory verdict (May 22, 2019) stood after the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals affirmed on May 14, 2021, certiorari was denied and the mandate issued February 9, 2022.
Dean Omar Branham Shirley, LLP2019 · District Court of Pontotoc County, OK (affirmed, Okla. Civ. App.; mandate issued 2022)Read the full story → - $7.8 millionVerdictTruck Accidents
Federal Jury Awards $7.8 Million After Semi Blocks Oklahoma City Road, Causes High-Speed Crash
A federal jury awarded Aldin Lewis $7.8 million after a Chandi 209 Trucking semi pulled onto W. Reno Avenue without stopping at a stop sign, blocking both eastbound lanes and leaving Lewis no room to brake.
Parrish DeVaughn Injury Lawyers2026 · U.S. District Court, W.D. Oklahoma (Oklahoma City)Read the full story → - $7.2 millionVerdictReduced from $8 millionWrongful Death
$8 Million Verdict for Disabled Man Who Died in Oklahoma Group Home, Judgment Stood at $7.2 Million
Mitchell Boles was 51, profoundly disabled and dependent on constant supervision. He had lived about 40 years at the state's Southern Oklahoma Resource Center in Pauls Valley. When Oklahoma closed its institutions he was moved in January 2014 to a group home in northwest Oklahoma City run by Renaissance Management Group, and he died there. In October 2016 an Oklahoma County jury found the operator negligent, put 80 percent of the fault on it, awarded $4,000,000 in actual damages and then $4,000,000 in punitive damages. The judgment was $7,200,000.
After trial: Reduced by apportionment, not a cap. The $4,000,000 actual-damages verdict was entered at $3,200,000 for Renaissance's 80 percent share of fault, and the $4,000,000 punitive award was entered in full, for a $7,200,000 judgment.
Harris & Coffey, PLLC2016 · District Court of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma CityRead the full story → - $2 millionVerdictCivil Rights
$2 Million Federal Verdict Against Oklahoma County Jail Trust for an Untreated Perforated Ulcer
Gregory N. Davis, 53, was booked into the Oklahoma County Detention Center in August 2021 on a misdemeanor outraging-public-decency complaint. Over nine days a peptic ulcer perforated. Another inmate testified that he screamed in pain, cried and begged for a nurse for days; detention officers reported none of it and missed mandatory cell checks. He was found unresponsive during a mental-health check and died at a hospital on August 12, 2021. On April 17, 2026 a federal jury unanimously found the jail trust deliberately indifferent to his medical need and awarded his estate $2,000,000.
After trial: Federal jury verdict returned April 17, 2026 against the Oklahoma County Criminal Justice Authority on a Section 1983 claim, which Oklahoma's tort claims act does not cap. The jury found for the two individual defendants, and as of September 2026 no post-trial ruling or appeal has been reported.
Laird Hammons Laird and Hicks Law Firm2026 · U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, Oklahoma CityRead the full story → - $2 millionVerdictPremises Liability
$2 Million Verdict Against Church That Hid Daycare Worker's Abuse History
A Tulsa County jury awarded $2 million to the family of a toddler injured at a church daycare after a second church hired the same worker without disclosing she was under investigation for abusing another child.
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On December 14, 2019 Emily Gaines, an 18-year-old Moore High School senior, was driving to take the ACT when Sgt. Kyle Lloyd of the Moore Police Department, off duty and rushing a key to another officer's patrol car for a department event, hit her broadside at 95 to 100 mph in a 50 zone. She died at the scene. On April 1, 2026 a federal jury returned $126,000,000. The court entered $90,000,000 against Lloyd, who is in prison, and cut the $36,000,000 against the City to $125,000 under Oklahoma's Governmental Tort Claims Act.
Terral Ellis II, 26, walked into the Ottawa County Jail voluntarily on an outstanding warrant. He developed bronchopneumonia and spent twelve days asking for medical care for seizures, sweating and pain. Jail video captured staff and the jail nurse mocking him. He died of septic shock on October 22, 2015.
On July 2, 2018 Justin Fulton, 32, had surgery to remove hernia mesh. He woke with his right leg numb and fell to the floor when he tried to stand, because his right quadriceps would not work. Nerve studies showed no motor or sensory function in his right femoral nerve: the surgeon had cut into it and not recognized it. The injury is permanent. The defense offered $200,000. On April 7, 2022 an Oklahoma County jury voted 11 to 1 for the Fultons and awarded $17,500,000, entered as a judgment in May and released and satisfied in July 2022.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court restored the full $15 million jury award for oilfield worker Todd Beason, who lost part of an arm when a crane boom fell on him, and held the state's $350,000 cap on noneconomic damages unconstitutional.
A $15 million civil judgment was entered against the owner of five pit bulls that mauled 60-year-old Edgar Brown to death on SW 38th Street in Oklahoma City in October 2015, with Noble McIntyre representing the Brown family.
Elliott Earl Williams, 37, was arrested in Owasso on an obstruction complaint in October 2011. Shortly after booking at the Tulsa County Jail he suffered a severe neck injury that paralysed him from the chest down. He was left on the floor of a medical-unit cell, unable to move, for days, and died of complications of the untreated injury and dehydration.
Brennen Atkeson was exposed to asbestos as a child, second-hand, from dust carried into the family home on the work clothes of his stepfather, an oilfield worker. The fibers came from raw asbestos put into drilling-mud products and from drilling-rig products. He developed mesothelioma and died at 38.
A federal jury awarded Aldin Lewis $7.8 million after a Chandi 209 Trucking semi pulled onto W. Reno Avenue without stopping at a stop sign, blocking both eastbound lanes and leaving Lewis no room to brake.
Mitchell Boles was 51, profoundly disabled and dependent on constant supervision. He had lived about 40 years at the state's Southern Oklahoma Resource Center in Pauls Valley. When Oklahoma closed its institutions he was moved in January 2014 to a group home in northwest Oklahoma City run by Renaissance Management Group, and he died there. In October 2016 an Oklahoma County jury found the operator negligent, put 80 percent of the fault on it, awarded $4,000,000 in actual damages and then $4,000,000 in punitive damages. The judgment was $7,200,000.
Gregory N. Davis, 53, was booked into the Oklahoma County Detention Center in August 2021 on a misdemeanor outraging-public-decency complaint. Over nine days a peptic ulcer perforated. Another inmate testified that he screamed in pain, cried and begged for a nurse for days; detention officers reported none of it and missed mandatory cell checks. He was found unresponsive during a mental-health check and died at a hospital on August 12, 2021. On April 17, 2026 a federal jury unanimously found the jail trust deliberately indifferent to his medical need and awarded his estate $2,000,000.
A Tulsa County jury awarded $2 million to the family of a toddler injured at a church daycare after a second church hired the same worker without disclosing she was under investigation for abusing another child.
Carr & Carr attorney Laurie Koller secured a $1.5 million settlement for an Oklahoma family after a Woodshed liquor store sold vodka to their 17-year-old son without checking his ID, and he died in a crash on the morning of his junior prom.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court held that Progressive could not deny uninsured motorist benefits to a motorcyclist who had paid for UM coverage on a separate auto policy, ruling the exclusionary language void as against public policy.
The Tenth Circuit reversed a preemption-based dismissal and reinstated state-law mislabeling claims brought by cancer treatment providers who alleged that Genentech's Herceptin vials consistently contained less than the labeled 440 mg of trastuzumab, with Matthew Sill of Fulmer Sill serving as co-lead MDL counsel for the hospital plaintiffs.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.