Whitley Law Firm Injury Lawyers

Whitley Law Firm and co-counsel resolved negligence and nuisance claims over a fire for $42.44 million, among the larger personal-injury recoveries reported in the state that year.

A driver in a 1980s sports car suffered a dozen fractures in a clear-day head-on collision with a truck on a 45-mph business road, and the case settled for $4.75 million.

A 41-year-old ironworker left paraplegic when an elevated walkway overhang collapsed under him during a Raleigh mall demolition reached a $4 million confidential settlement with the general contractor.

A commercial truck driver ran a stop sign on a North Carolina country road and killed a 60-year-old man, and his family settled their confidential wrongful-death claim for $3 million, a result that tied for 25th among the state's top verdicts and settlements of 2019.

Chase Cayton, 23, suffered a severe brain injury and a fractured right leg when a pickup turned left across his path, and his suit in Pitt County Superior Court settled for $2,988,396.

A 35-year-old bicyclist left with a traumatic brain injury after a driver ran a stop sign recovered $2.3 million, approved within months and routed through a special needs trust so his care could continue.