Robert Kerrigan | Pensacola Personal Injury Lawyer

Verdicts

Our Successes — our past record of recovering large jury verdicts and settlements on behalf of our clients. Whether it’s in the courtroom or out, proven past experience counts. This is a partial list of verdicts obtained for our clients over the last forty years… $1, 200,000 – Jury verdict for a welder who sustained burns to over 50% of his body when a tank exploded spewing acid onto his body. Sowell v. American Cyanamid, U. S. District Court, Pensacola, FL Case No. 84-4463-RV $56,001 – Verdict. Resmondo v. Mason and Erickson, Santa Rosa Co. Circuit Court Case No. 83-C-364 $1, 500, 000 – Jury verdict in a medical negligence action where the physician installed a prosthetic patella femoral joint in an upside down position. Sewell v. Flynn, 459 So. 2d 372 (Fla. App. 1 Dist. 1984) $35,000 – Verdict. Brenita Price v. General Electric Co., et. al., Escambia Co. Circuit Court Case No. 82-3967 $250,000 – Verdict. Wynn v. Division of Corrections, Escambia Co. Circuit Court Case No. 80-1960 $650,000 – Ball, et al. v. First Floridian Auto and Home insurance Co., Car Accident, Personal Injury, 2017 $5,000,000 – Jury verdict in a products liability action against a crane manufacturer awarded to a man who was badly injured in a crane accident. The crane operator was working with a ground crew to attach a four-part line to a heavy load. The operator inadvertently moved the crane boom out far enough to break a single line holding a large hook and ball (“headache ball”) that was pulled up out of the way. The “headache ball’ fell and struck our client. This is a well-known crane hazard called “two-blocking”. The defendant crane company had developed an anti-two-blocking device, but made it an extra cost option. The defendant in the case made only a modest pre-trial offer, relying on its defense that the operator and our injured client were both at fault. This case prompted a worldwide change in the crane industry. Sidner v. Harnischfeger, Escambia Co. Circuit Court Case No. 82-50 $500,000 – Verdict in a product liability case where the defense never made a pre-trial settlement offer. The decedent, who was killed when he fell from a ladder, was the only one present when the ladder was being used and thus, there were no witnesses to his fall. After the trial court was upheld by the 1st DCA, the defendants paid the full judgment plus costs and interest. Lang v. White Metal Rolling & Stamping Co. and Sears Roebuck, Okaloosa Co. Case No. 87-2126 $3,698,664 – Jury verdict as a result of an unnecessary and negligently performed medical procedure resulting in irreversible anatomical and neurological damage. Camp v. Kimbell, 526 So. 2d 691 (Fla. App. 1 Dist. 1988) $900,000 – Jury award in product liability action against the manufacturer of a water heater for the death of a woman who died from carbon monoxide poisoning. The verdict was substantially more than the defendant offered pre-trial. The defendant claimed that the death was caused by improper venting during installation. Plaintiff successfully argued to the jury that the manufacturer had substantial warnings that the water from the heater would be hot, but failed to adequately warn about the carbon monoxide hazard, which could have steered sales towards an electric water heater. Comptom v. Rheem Manufacturing Co., Escambia Co. Circuit Court Case No. 90-0520

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