Call Prater & Craig today: 770-253-7778: Thought we would post the largest verdicts for 2010. Almost all these verdicts are based on the Defendant just being a horrible person or entity and are "Anger" verdicts. Also note that most are company against company. Finally a lot of them were for "SHOW" and were not and never will be collectible.Anyway: Here they are:
1 | $1,300,000,000 | Intellectual Property | David Boies, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Armonk, N.Y. | Robert A. Mittelstaedt, Jones Day, San Francisco | |
2 | $676,771,596 | Consumer Protection | Lavender v. Skilled Healthcare Group Inc., Humboldt Co., Calif., Super. Ct., DR060264, 7/6/2010 | Michael D. Thamer, Law Offices of Michael D. Thamer, Callahan, Calif. | Kippy L. Wroten, Wroten & Associates Inc., Santa Ana, Calif. |
3 | $625,000,000 | Intellectual Property | Joseph Diamante, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, LLP, New York; Otis W. Carroll, Ireland, Carroll & Kelley, Tyler, Texas | Jeff G. Randall, Paul, Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP, Palo Alto, Calif. | |
4 | $505,100,000 | Products Liability | Robert T. Eglet , Mainor Eglet, Las Vegas | Mark E. Tully, Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston | |
5 | $269,431,798 | Breach of Contract | Celador International Ltd. v. Walt Disney Co.,C.D. Calif., 2:04-CV-03541-VAP-RNB, 7/7/2010 | Roman M. Silberfeld, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P., Los Angeles | Martin D. Katz, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, Los Angeles |
6 | $257,679,500 | Consumer Protection | State of Louisiana v. Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc., 27th Jud. Dist. Parish of St. Landry, La., 04-C-3967-D, 10/14/2010 | Patrick C. Morrow, Morrow, Morrow, Ryan & Bassett, Opelousas, La. | Thomas F. Campion, Drinker Biddle & Reath, Florham Park, N.J. |
7 | $253,300,000 | Employment | Velez v. Novartis Corp.,S.D.N.Y., 1:04-CV-09194-CM, 5/19/2010 | Katherine M. Kimpel and David W. Sanford,Sanford Wittels & Heisler, LLP, Washington, D.C. | Richard H. Schnadig, Vedder Price PC, Chicago |
8 | $238,038,001 | Breach of Contract | Ophelia F. Camina and Terrell W. Oxford, Susman Godfrey, Dallas | Anthony A. Avey, Prichard Hawkins McFarland & Young, San Antonio | |
9 | $208,821,015 | Products Liability | William A. Levin and Laurel L. Simes, Levin Simes Kaiser & Gornick LLP, San Francisco | Will Jay Pirkey, Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, Los Angeles (Los Angeles Department of Water and Power); William J. Sayers, McKenna, Long & Aldridge, Los Angeles (CertainTeed Corp.) | |
10 | $195,039,060 | Civil Theft | Vision Inc. v. Landes,Broward Co., Fla., Cir. Ct., 2-0008659-03, 11/15/2010 | Ricardo M. Martinez-Cid, Podhurst Orseck, Miami | None |
11 | $152,000,000 | Products Liability | Estate of Evans v. Lorillard Tobacco Co.,Suffolk Co., Mass., Super. Ct., 2004-2840, 12/14/2010 | Michael D. Weisman, Davis, Malm & D'Agostine, P.C., Boston | Walter L. Cofer, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Kansas City, Mo. |
12 | $142,089,276 | RICO | Kaiser Foundation Health Plan v. Pfizer Inc.,D. Mass., 04-CV-10739-PBS, 3/25/2010 | Thomas M. Greene, Greene LLP, Boston | Raoul D. Kennedy, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, San Francisco; James E. Hooper Jr., Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell LLP, Denver |
13 | $132,500,000 | Products Liability | Cole v. Ford Motor Co.,Jasper Co., Miss., Cir. Ct., 12-0076, 9/2/2010 | Tab Turner, Turner & Associates, P.A, North Little Rock, Ark. | Walker W. Jones III, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, Jackson, Miss.; R. Gordon Sproule Jr., Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart LLP, Birmingham, Ala. |
14 | $124,546,733 | Motor Vehicle | Joseph Isaac, Scherr & Legate, El Paso, Texas; Raul Steven Pastrana, Pastrana Law Firm, Austin, Texas; Dennis L. Richard, Wigington Rumley Dunn, L.L.P., San Antonio; Craig M. Sico, Sico, White, Hoelscher & Braugh L.L.P., Corpus Christi, Texas; | Mannie Kalman, Law Offices of Mannie Kalman, P.C., El Paso, Texas | |
15 | $114,000,000 | Nursing Homes | Blair N. Mendes and A. Lance Reins, Wilkes & McHugh, P.A., Tampa, Fla. | None | |
16 | $110,658,800 | Breach of Contract | Epicenter Partners LLC v. Northeast Phoenix Partners, Maricopa Co., Ariz., Super. Ct., LC2007-000011-001DT, 7/27/2010 | Michael Kibler, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Los Angeles; Barry Ostrager, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York | Ed Aro, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Denver |
17 | $105,750,000 | Intellectual Property | Douglas A. Cawley, McKool Smith, P.C., Dallas | Matt Powers, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Redwood City, Calif. | |
18 | $103,550,000 | Legal Malpractice | Mark Nelson and John "Jack" Land, Bryan Nelson P.A., Hattiesburg, Miss. | James A. Brown, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans | |
19 | $95,224,863 | Intellectual Property | Thomas D. Rein, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago | Robert McAughan, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, Houston (Artesyn Technologies Inc.);Alan D. Smith, Fish & Richardson, Boston, (Delta Electronics Inc.); Richard Vasquez, Vasquez, Benisek & Lindgren, Lafayette, Calif. (Cherokee International Corp.); Steven Williams,Kennedy Clark & Williams, Dallas (Bel Fuse Inc.) | |
20 | $95,000,000 | Wrongful Death | Bohning v. Cullen,Lehigh Co., Pa., Ct. C.P., 2004-C 2018V, 3/23/2010 | Mark K. Altemose and Kelly Clifford Rambo,Cohen & Feeley, Bethlehem, Pa. | None |
