Virginia’s Largest Verdicts of 2007 « Virginia Lawyers Weekly

Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to present the “Virginia’s Largest Verdicts of 2007,” our annual compilation of big jury verdicts from across the commonwealth.

As in past years, our criteria for the list are simple:

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

2. The verdict was returned by a jury in Virginia – not a judge.

3. The verdict was returned in calendar year 2007.

The 2007 survey features 20 verdicts, down from the 29 million-dollar verdicts in last year’s compilation.

	Amount	Name of Case	Type of Case
1	$58 Million	Verizon Services Corp. v. Vonage Holdings Corp.	Patent infringement
2	$23 Million	LifeNet Inc. v. Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.	Patent infringement
3	$16 Million	Johnson v. Supervalu	Constructive fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress
4	$12 Million	Ritzmann v. Miller Oil Company Inc.	Personal injury, mild traumatic brain injury
5	$9.25 Million	Oney, Executor v. John Crane Inc.	Wrongful death, mesothelioma
6	$4.4 Million	Estate of John Wayne Marker v. Evans	Wrongful Death, medical malpractice
7	$4.25 Million	Banc of America Leasing & Capital LLC v. ePlus Group Inc.	Breach of contract
8	$4 Million	The United Company v. Keenan	Oral contract
9	$3.36 Million	Wood, Administrator v. Carleo	Wrongful death, medical mapractice
10	$3.31 Million	Fletcher v. Ayala	Personal injury, traumatic brain injury
11	$3.1 Million	Estate of Crump v. Estate of Hoover	Wrongful death
12	$2.5 Million	Johnson v. Hairston	Personal injury
12 (tie)	$2.5 Million	Omega World Travel v. Mumma	Defamation
14	$2 Million	Raymond v. Rapphahn	Personal injury, traumatic brain injury
15	$1.97 Million	Cornejo, Administrator v. Gotwalt	Wrongful death
16	$1.88 Million	Johnson v. Uy	Personal injury, medical malpractice
17	$1.7 Million	Confidential	Personal injury
18	$1.6 Million	Confidential	Personal injury, traumatic brain injury
19	$1.5 Million	Johnson-Rankin v. Whiting	Personal injury, traumatic brain injury
19 (tie)	$1.5 Million	Ingraham v. Williams	Personal injury

If we have missed any million-dollar verdicts from 2007, 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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