Virginia’s Largest Verdicts of 2009 « Virginia Lawyers Weekly

Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to present the “Virginia’s Largest Verdicts of 2009,” 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 2009.

The 2009 survey features 21 verdicts, up from the 15 million-dollar verdicts in last year’s compilation, and 20 million-dollar verdicts the year before.
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	Amount	Name of Case	Type of Case
1	$13.5 Million	PBM Products LLC v. Mead Johnson & Co.	False Advertising
2	$9 Million	Royal v. Campbell County	Environmental Damange
3	$8 Million	Lo v. Greater Richmond Transit Co.	Personal Injury
4	$7.4 Million	Cox v. Gamache	Medical Malpractice
5	$7 Million	Butler v. Trivedi	Medical Malpractice
6	$5.265 Million	Aichs v. Don B. Swisher Trucking Corp.	Personal Injury
7	$5 Million	Whitaker v. Henrich Schepers GMBH & Co. KG	Personal Injury
8	$4.3 Million	Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner v. Spinner	Eminent Domain
9	$4 Million	Thorne v. Glick	Medical Malpractice
10	$3.8 Million	Sanders v. John Crane Inc.	Product Liability
11	$3.7 Million	Martin v. Wills	Medical Malpractice
12	$3.2 Million	Bennett v. R&L Carriers Shared Services, LLC	Malicious Prosecution
12	$3.2 Million	Zeng v. IKEA Virginia LLC	Premises Liability
14	$2.25 Million	Drake v. Walter	Medical Malpractice
15	$2 Million	Gross v. Favret	Defamation
16	$1.75 Million	Williams v. Jones	Medical Malpractice
17	$1.27 Million	Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner v. Bodnar	Eminent Domain
18	$1.25 Million	Confidential	Personal Injury
19	$1.2 Million	Harrison v. Bittler	Assault
20	$1.2 Million	Garza v. Beta Theta Pi	Premises Liability
21	$1.07 Million	Confidential	Medical Malpractice
22	$1.01 Million	Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner v. Shadyac	Eminent Domain

If we have missed any million-dollar verdicts from 2009, 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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