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Personal Injury Verdicts & Settlements


When choosing a Tennessee law firm, a prospective client should consider not only the experience of a firm's attorneys but the firm's success in obtaining verdicts and settlements. Most importantly, a prospective client should ask whether an attorney has recently tried any cases to verdict. Actual trial experience is important since settlement values are often determined by informed attorneys making reasonable predictions as to what a local jury would award if a case were tried. Listed below are just a few examples of settlements and verdicts obtained by Gilreath & Associates attorneys:

Gilreath & Associates has represented countless individuals injured in automobile collisions obtaining settlements and verdicts ranging from $15,000 to $5 million to widow of a young man killed in a multi-vehicle collision.

  • $2 million to family rear-ended by tractor-trailer.
  • $1.5 million to family crushed in their automobile between two tractor-trailers.
  • $1 million to widow of truck driver killed in accident involving two tractor-trailers.
  • $765,000 to man severely injured by truck crossing highway median.
  • $750,000 to family of woman when tractor trailer crossed center line.
  • $7.6 million to woman paralyzed during neck surgery — affirmed by the Tennessee Court of Appeals - Steele v. Ft. Sanders Anesthesia Group, P.C., 897 S.W.2d 270 (Tenn. App., 1994).
  • $3.5 million to man for failure to diagnose fracture resulting in paralysis.
  • $3 million to child severely disabled at birth due to medical error.
  • $44 million to child paralyzed due to defective seatbelt system.
  • $13 million to two plaintiffs paralyzed as a result of rear-end collision in a defectively designed automobile.
  • $6.5 million to a woman paralyzed by defective airbag and seatbelt system — affirmed by the Tennessee Court of Appeals - Cruze v. Ford Motor Co., et al., 1999 WL 1206798 (Tenn.Ct.App.).
  • $3.9 million to teenager paralyzed in accident caused by defective school bus brakes.
  • $1.5 million to person injured by defective lawn mower.
  • $2.25 million to railroad worker who lost his leg after being crushed by train wheel assembly.
  • $841,901 to locomotive engineer for back injuries sustained in crossing collision.
  • $700,000 to locomotive engineer for neck and back injuries suffered when two train cars collide.