The  law firm had had such success that many of the railroads and insurance companies do not wish us to reveal the recovery amounts but the below cases are in the public files of the court houses! The below is a sample of recoveries by the law firm:

2018 Recovery

A significant recovery for a loyal railroad employee who was injured when the communication systems failed causing an emergency dismount from
a rolling train.

2017 Confidential Settlement

A recovery for a dedicated railroad engineer whose injury arose from a lack of maintenance by a major railroad during freezing weather conditions that
left a patch of ice barely visible in a commonly used walk area.

2016 Recoveries

A conductor had a career ending injury when dismounting on poorly maintained track in another record setting recovery.

2015 Confidential Settlement

A railroad engineer was seriously injured when his locomotive derailed on track that had rails which were forged over 100 years ago and had never been replaced. The recovery was the highest in the history of a very conservative Alabama county.

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$850,000 – Recovered

Railroad worker injured when his locomotive derailed at only 4mph due to poor track.

$14 Million – Recovered

A husband/father received severe brain injuries while he was driving home from work.  While he was stopped at a railroad crossing, the oncoming train crashed into a tractor-trailer which was blocking the crossing.  Flying debris from the collision struck Plaintiff, resulting in severe brain injury.

$750,000 – Recovered

Railroad engineer injured when the handbrake on his engine broke while he was trying to set

$400,000 – Recovered

Railroad worker hurt when the railroad selected taxi cab service ran a stop sign.

$350,000 – Recovered

Railroad engineer hurt when his leg caught up in overgrown vegetation near the track and at a
required dismount point.

$220,000 – Recovered

Railroad conductor injured when he had to jump from a railroad car that became derailed due to
poor track.

$600,000.00 – Recovered

Railroad/Back Injury

A railroad worker suffered back injuries requiring surgery after a piece of defective equipment collapsed.

$600,000.00 – Recovered

Railroad/Shoulder Injury

A railroad worker suffered a shoulder injury and stress disorder when his locomotive was hit by another locomotive.

$350,000.00 – Verdict & Recovered

Railroad/Crossing Collision

A locomotive engineer suffered a back injury in a crossing collision, resulting in low back surgery and a limitation on future employment.

$217,000.00 – Recovered

A railroad worker suffered a heat stroke while working a local job during the middle of July.  Although there are several instances in which railroads have been found liable for failing to protect workers against extreme cold in northern states, we believe this may be the first instance in which a railroad has paid damages for “too hot to work” conditions in the deep South.

$900,000.00 – Recovered

A railroad worker suffered an on the job back injury.  Several years later he died on the operating table while undergoing back surgery.

$750,000.00 – Verdict

A railroad worker injured his back while attempting to open a defective window on the locomotive.

$740,000.00 – Verdict

A railroad worker injured his back when a stanchion broke loose as he was attempting to climb onto a flat car.

$750,000.00 – Recovered

A railroad worker suffered a back injury when a railroad “cab” driver was involved in a rear-end collision.

$540,000.00 – Recovered

An engineer suffered a back injury when, due to a defective locomotive, he was unable to see and struck a standing car.

$400,000.00 – Recovered

A railroad worker was injured when his train crossed a negligently maintained grade crossing.

$450,000.00 – Recovered

A railroad trainman suffered a shoulder injury when his locomotive turned over on an area of track flooded by recent rains.

$14 Million – Recovered

A husband/father received severe brain injuries while he was driving home from work.  While he was stopped at a railroad crossing, the oncoming train crashed into a tractor-trailer which was blocking the crossing.  Flying debris from the collision struck Plaintiff, resulting in severe brain injury.

$1.8 Million – Recovered

A woman suffered severe brain injury in an intersection collision.  As the car in which she was a passenger left an apartment complex, the driver’s view was obscured by a sign that had been erected near the intersection.  The sign violated the governing sign ordinance and had been reported as dangerous.

$10 Million – Recovered

A young teenager become a ventilator dependent quadriplegic due to medical errors in an emergency room.  Due to these medical errors, his condition was misdiagnosed, ultimately resulting in catastrophic spinal cord damage.

$2.6 Million – Verdict

Medical Malpractice / Brain Damage
An elderly woman went to the emergency room complaining of severe pain due to sickle cell disease.  She received improper care for this condition and suffered brain damage as a result.

$7.5 Million – Recovered

Brain Damage / Intersection Collision

A 50-year-old man suffered severe brain injuries in an intersection collision when a corporate truck made an improper turn.  Prior counsel had advised the clients that a recovery could never exceed $1 Million.

Verdict – Aviation Liability / Brain Damage

A Nashville music industry executive suffered brain damage during a flight when items fell from the overhead bin.  The case helped prompt safer airline procedures regarding storage of items during flight.  Witnesses for the plaintiff included Tammy Wynette, Charlie Daniels, and Ricky Skaggs.

$2.25 Million – Recovered

This is believed to be the highest settlement in Georgia for the swimming pool / drowning death of a toddler.  The victim, a three-year-old child, went into the pool area of an apartment complex, fell into the pool, and drowned.  The pool gate was defective, did not self-close, and violated the County pool ordinance.  The apartment complex had been repeatedly cited for defective pool gates and never made appropriate repairs.

$700,000.00 Recovered

A sixteen-year-old girl drifted off the shoulder of a newly repaved road.  She encountered a steep drop-off from the road surface to the dirt shoulder causing her to lose control and be killed in a one-car wreck.  Since there were no witnesses and the wreck had to be reconstructed from circumstantial evidence, the case was exceedingly difficult.  The result helped lead to safer procedures by the Department of Transportation and local governments in maintaining safe roadways.

$800,000.00 – Recovered

A tractor-trailer truck driver was killed when the load in the trailer shifted in a turn.  The outcome was particularly good since the law of the state of occurrence is that any contributing negligence by the driver precludes a recovery.

$3 Million – Verdict

A homemaker in the passenger seat of a car driven by her husband was killed when her husband ran a stop sign and was hit by a speeding State of Georgia vehicle. The jury valued her life at $3 Million and established the important legal principle that the husband’s own negligence did not bar the daughter from recovering for her mother’s death.  Judgment was entered for the daughter for $1.5 Million.

$800,000.00 – Recovered

An elderly woman died due to complications from a medical procedure.

Policy Limits – Recovered

A tractor-trailer truck driver was killed in a head-on wreck with another truck.  The case resulted in a policy limits settlement.

$900,000.00 – Recovered

A railroad worker suffered an on the job back injury.  Several years later he died on the operating table while undergoing back surgery.

$1.3 Million – Recovered

A toddler suffered severe burns when she climbed onto an open oven door causing the stove to tip over, spilling hot grease onto the child.  Plaintiff proved that stove tip-over is a known risk requiring that the stove be secured to prevent tipping over.

$800,000.00 – Recovered

A house fire occurred due to defective lighting manufactured in China.

$1.8 Million – Recovered

A young woman rented an apartment and noticed the smell of gas in the kitchen.  A repairman came, opened the oven, and struck a match.  The resulting explosion caused severe burn injuries to the tenant.

$640,000.00 – Recovered

A welder suffered second degree burns when he was instructed to weld on top of an empty crude oil holding tank.  The company failed to secure the area or shut down crude oil operations in a nearby tank resulting in an explosion.

$1 Million – Recovered

A worker was struck and pinned against a wall by a negligently operated backhoe – causing severe lacerations and injuries.  Two prior law firms had rejected the case as unmeritorious.

$700,000.00 – Recovered

A sixteen-year-old girl drifted off the shoulder of a newly repaved road.  She encountered a steep drop-off from the road surface to the dirt shoulder causing her to lose control and be killed in a one-car wreck.  Since there were no witnesses and the wreck had to be reconstructed from circumstantial evidence, the case was exceedingly difficult.  The result helped lead to safer procedures by the Department of Transportation and local governments in maintaining safe roadways.

$640,000.00 – Recovered

A welder suffered second degree burns when he was instructed to weld on top of an empty crude oil holding tank.  The company failed to secure the area or shut down crude oil operations in a nearby tank

2016 Recoveries

An automobile collision that injured a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and his disabled child. The insurance company paid out the limits of all available coverage.

A recovery for a dedicated postal service employee who was struck by a driver who had a license for only a matter of months. The defendant contended he had a green light and this firm found a witness that was directly behind the collision that confirmed that the postal employee did nothing wrong.

$300,000.00 – Recovered

Truck Wreck/Back Injury

A tractor trailer driver with a lengthy history of prior back injuries was rear ended on an interstate highway by another tractor trailer truck, resulting in an additional back surgery.

$500,000.00 – Recovered

Truck Wreck/Shoulder Injury

A driver was rear ended on an interstate highway and suffered a rotator cuff injury requiring surgery.

$14 Million – Recovered

A husband/father received severe brain injuries while he was driving home from work.  While he was stopped at a railroad crossing, the oncoming train crashed into a tractor-trailer which was blocking the crossing.  Flying debris from the collision struck Plaintiff, resulting in severe brain injury.

$800,000.00 – Recovered

A tractor-trailer truck driver was killed when the load in the trailer shifted in a turn.  The outcome was particularly good since the law of the state of occurrence is that any contributing negligence by the driver precludes a recovery.

$7.5 Million – Recovered

A 50-year-old man suffered severe brain injuries in an intersection collision when a corporate truck made an improper turn.  Prior counsel had advised the clients that a recovery could never exceed $1 Million.

$1.8 Million – Recovered

A woman suffered severe brain injury in an intersection collision.  As the car in which she was a passenger left an apartment complex, the driver’s view was obscured by a sign that had been erected near the intersection.  The sign violated the governing sign ordinance and had been reported as dangerous.

$3 Million – Verdict

A homemaker in the passenger seat of a car driven by her husband was killed when her husband ran a stop sign and was hit by a speeding State of Georgia vehicle. The jury valued her life at $3 Million and established the important legal principle that the husband’s own negligence did not bar the daughter from recovering for her mother’s death.  Judgment was entered for the daughter for $1.5 Million.

$6 Million – Settlement – Federal Tort Claims Act

The Duke of Wellington’s Royal Rugby Regiment came to the United States for exhibition tour matches against stateside teams.  A United States Army soldier, assigned as driver for the team, lost control of the van – causing a wreck in which team members were severely injured and one was killed.  The case was extremely complicated, involving the FERES doctrine, NATO Treaty, and Status of Forces Agreement, and is believed to be one of the few, if not only, case in which foreign soldiers have been authorized to recover against the United States.  Among those presenting evidence was Winston Churchill, III.  The case was followed and reported by nationally published commentator James Kilpatrick.

Verdict – Will Contest

A father made a verbal deal with his mother that he would make a will leaving all his estate to her on the condition that she would also make a will leaving everything she inherited from him to his only child/her granddaughter.  Within a few days of his death, the grandmother revoked her will and made a new one leaving the multimillion dollar estate she had just inherited to others and excluding the man’s only child from any inheritance.  Because of the difficulty of proving the case, a prior law firm withdrew.  Due to the in depth investigation by our firm, a jury found in favor of the granddaughter.

Verdict – Legal Malpractice

The firm represented three adult children of a man killed in a car wreck.  The surviving spouse/stepmother hired an attorney who settled the case.  The spouse and her attorney failed to pay any proceeds to the surviving children.  The case is relied upon throughout Georgia as establishing the proper method of distributing wrongful death proceeds between beneficiaries.