Million Dollar Settlements of 2008 « Virginia Lawyers Weekly

Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to present the “Million Dollar Settlements of 2008,” our first annual compilation of big settlements from across the commonwealth. As in past years, our criteria for the list are simple:

1. The settlement must be for at least $1 million.

2. The settlement involved a dispute based in Virginia.

3. The settlement was reached in calendar year 2008.

We have also included three settlements from 2007 that appeared in 2008 in the Verdicts & Settlements section.

	Amount	Name of Case	Type of Case
1	$20.77 Million	Williams v. LexisNexis Management Inc.	Fair Credit Reporting Act
2	$6.89 Million	Beverly v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc.; Beverly v. ChoicePoint Inc.	Fair Credit Reporting Act
3	$5 Million	Confidential	Personal Injury
3 (tie)	$5 Million	Confidential	Personal Injury
3 (tie)	$5 Million	Confidential	Personal Injury
6	$4.75 Million	Shifflet v. Electric Power Systems Inc.	Personal Injury
7	$4.4 Million	Walters and Kuffel v. City of Chesapeake	Personal Injury
8	$2.75 Million	Confidential	Personal Injury
9 (tie)	$2.5 Million	Kurek v. East Coast Truck Lines	Personal Injury
9 (tie)	$2.5 Million	Confidential	Personal Injury
9 (tie)	$2.5 Million	Confidential	Personal Injury
12	$2.4 Million	Allen v. City of Petersburg	Personal injury
13	$2.22 Million	Barnes v. Mitchell	Personal Injury
14	$2.16 Million	Ott v. “Acme Aerial Lifts”	Product Liability
15 (tie)	$2.1 Million	Allen v. City of Petersburg	Medical Malpractice
15 (tie)	$2.1 Million	Doe v. Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority	Personal Injury
17	$1.86 Million	Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County v. Hayfield Farms Community Association II	Condemnation
18	$1.75 Million	Omar v. LTF Club Operations Company Inc.	Personal Injury
19	$1.6 Million	Frank Hraczo v. Seneca Excavating & Landscaping	Personal Injury
20	$1.55 Million	Confidential	Medical Malpractice
21	$1.51 Million	Confidential	Personal Injury
22	$1.5 Million	Commercial Pilot Doe v. Hotel	Personal Injury
23	$1.48 Million	Stevens v. Hong	Personal Injury
24	$1.45 Million	Doe v. HMO	Medical Malpractice
25 (tie)	$1.35 Million	Confidential	Personal Injury
25 (tie)	$1.35 Million	Confidential	Personal Injury
27	$1.3 Million	Confidential	Personal Injury
28 (tie)	$1.25 Million	Confidential	Medical Malpractice
28 (tie)	$1.25 Million	Confidential	Personal Injury
30	$1.2 Million	Confidential	Medical Malpractice
31 (tie)	$1.1 Million	Confidential	Product Liability
31 (tie)	$1.1 Million	Confidential	Personal Injury
31 (tie)	$1.1 Million	Confidential	Personal Injury
31 (tie)	$1.1 Million	Confidential	Medical Malpractice
35	$1.05 Million	Confidential	Pharmacy Malpractice
36 (tie)	$1 Million	Linkous v. Wood	Personal Injury
36 (tie)	$1 Million	Confidential	Personal Injury
36 (tie)	$1 Million	Smith v. Blevins	Personal Injury
36 (tie)	$1 Million	Jones v. Big Roc Tool	Product Liability

If we have missed any million-dollar settlements from 2008, please let us know. We’ll be glad to add that information to the online version of the story so it can be complete as possible. And during the coming year, we would greatly appreciate hearing about verdicts that will make it on next year’s list.

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