Personal Injury Attorneys in Vermont

A Chittenden County jury returned $43,101,162 against Johnson Controls, the seat manufacturer, after a Vermont woman was left with a catastrophic spinal-cord injury when the single-sided recliner mechanism in her car seat collapsed during a rear-end collision she should have survived. The trial court entered final judgment at $36,948,123, and the appeal was later dismissed by stipulation.

A Vermont jury awarded $22.5 million, the second-largest verdict in state history at the time, to a Maine utility lineman who lost both legs below the knee after an ungrounded, defectively installed air-break switch at a Richford substation released a 5,000-degree electrical arc through his body.

A Tunbridge, Vermont man had his left testicle removed for Stage 1 testicular cancer in May 2020 and was placed on surveillance imaging instead of chemotherapy or radiation. Through 2021 he repeatedly reported worsening pain and urinary trouble, but his urologist declined to see him for eight months, and a metastatic tumor visible on his January and April 2021 scans went unidentified. A Vermont jury found Dartmouth Hitchcock Health, Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinic and Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital liable for medical malpractice and awarded $1,400,000 in February 2026, while rejecting a separate implied-consent claim.

On September 9, 1990, James Ulm was riding as a passenger in a 1978 Ford Bronco on a dirt road above Wilmington, Vermont, when the driver lost steering control and the Bronco rolled, breaking Ulm's back and leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Ulm sued Ford Motor Company, arguing the Bronco's steering system was defectively designed, and a Windham Superior Court jury returned a $1,250,000 verdict in his favor. After the trial court credited pretrial settlements and added prejudgment interest, the final judgment rose to $1,290,460.52. Ford appealed, and the Vermont Supreme Court affirmed the judgment in full, also rejecting a subrogation claim brought by Ulm's health plan.