In the past, I have written on the settlement amount for fractured legs. Now, in a relentless, unyielding effort to cover the settlement and trial value of every bone in the human anatomy, let’s thin-slice broken legs a little thinner. So we will look at femur fractures generally but drill…
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Vertebrae Fracture Settlement Amounts
Our law firm has handled a lot of vertebrae fractures in car, motorcycle, and truck accident cases over the last 20 years. A vertebrae fracture can be a serious, significant, and permanent injury to the musculoskeletal system. You wouldn’t wish this fracture on anyone. What is the Settlement Value of…
Vision Loss Settlement and Verdicts
What is the Average Value for Vision Loss Cases? Metro Verdicts Monthly graph this month is the median verdict and settlement value of “vision loss” personal injury cases. Omitting defense verdicts, the average settlement/verdict in Washington D.C. is $500,000. What do you think the average is in Maryland? Somehow, I…
Average Disc Injury Verdicts and Settlements
Disc Injury Values JVR has done a national analysis of jury awards for spinal nerve with disc damage. The study underscores what every plaintiffs’ lawyer has figured out by osmosis, if nothing else: age matters. Young people recover much better than older people. The overall median award to plaintiffs age…
Premises Liability Settlements and Verdicts in Maryland
Metro Verdicts Monthly’s graph this month is non-fatal settlements and verdicts in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Virginia in premises liability cases since 1987. The median non-fatal premises liability case in Maryland was $69,000. The recoveries in Virginia and the District of Columbia are slightly less, $50,000 and $65,000,…
Fractured Shoulder Verdicts and Settlements in Maryland
Value of Shoulder Separation Cases Some time ago Metro Verdicts had a graph comparing settlement amounts in different regions or distinct types of injuries. This month, they had a fascinating graph comparing fractured shoulder injury verdicts and settlements in Maryland and Virginia since 1987, omitting defense verdicts. The average fractured…
Back Fracture Settlements and Verdicts
Back Injury Verdicts Metro Verdicts Monthly graphs the median verdict and settlement value of back fracture cases over the last 23 years. The median settlement/verdict in Washington D.C. is $52,500. Maryland has a slightly lower median of $43,126. The median settlement/verdict in a back fracture lawsuit in Virginia is $125,000.…
Wrist Fracture Settlement and Verdicts
Click to enlarge Over the last 20 years, our car accident lawyers have handled many wrist fracture cases. We have seen wrist fracture cases with very high, very low, and everything in between. Our firm has a history of maximizing the trial and settlement value of wrist injury lawsuits. What…
Foot Injury Lawsuits: Settlements and Verdicts
Obviously, there are a lot of vexing injuries that occur in car and truck accidents. Foot and ankle injuries rank high on this list of hard to solve accident injuries. There are so many bones in the foot — one-fourth of all of your bones — and the bones are…
Settlement Compensation for an Amputated Toe
Our lawyers have handled scores of car accident and product liability cases where the injury is an amputation or serious injury to the victim’s toe or toes. This page is about the settlement compensation payouts in toe injury and amputation cases and the issues that are presented in these injury…