Virginia’s Largest Verdicts of 2008

Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to present the “Virginia’s Largest Verdicts of 2008,” 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 2008.

The 2007 survey features 15 verdicts, down from the 20 million-dollar verdicts in last year’s compilation, and 29 million-dollar verdicts the year before
.

	Amount	Name of Case	Type of Case
1	$15.2 Million	Worldwide Network Services LLC v. Dyncorp Int’l LLC	Discrimination
2	$10.2 Million	Zoll v. Werner Enterprises Inc.	Personal Injury
3	$4.75 Million	Meng v. The Drees Company	Negligence / Constructive Fraud
4	$4.39 Million	Koonce v. John Crane Inc.	Asbestos
5	$3.5 Million	Franklin v. Feeny	Medical Malpractice
6	$2.8 Million	Titsworth v. Howard Brothers Inc.	Personal Injury
7	$2.38 Million	Bell v. Myers	Wrongful Death
8	$2 Million	Confidential	Medical Malpractice
9	$1.96 Million	Weston v. BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair Inc.	Personal Injury
10	$1.7 Million	King v. John Crane Inc.	Asbestos
11	$1.55 Million	Booth v. O’Connell	Medical Malpractice
12	$1.32 Million	Bagley v. EWC, LC	Personal injury
13	$1.14 Million	Blue Line Media Inc. v. Redmon Group Inc.	Breach of Contract
14 (tie)	$1 Million	Confidential	Medical Malpractice
14 (tie)	$1 Million	Cowan v. Hayne	Personal Injury

If we have missed any million-dollar verdicts 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.