Case Results

CASE RESULTS DEPEND UPON A VARIETY OF FACTORS 

UNIQUE TO EACH CASE AND DO NOT GUARANTEE

SIMILAR RESULTS IN ANY FUTURE CASE

 

 

VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS 

WON FOR OUR CLIENTS

 

$2.35 Million – won for a Virginia Beach woman who was paralyzed in a rollover auto accident.  Part of her settlement was placed into a structured annuity for her and her family which will total well over $4 Million during her lifetime. Goss & Fentress also filed a $25 million lawsuit against a Detroit automaker for the rollover and defective seat belt.  A separate confidential settlement was reached with the automaker.

 

$614,000 – Won for a Chesapeake teenager.  As a passenger, the teen was ejected from a speeding pickup truck that crashed going around a sharp turn.

 

$500.000 - Jury Verdict - Chesapeake Jury awarded damages to a doctor for his injuries in an automobile accident. 

 

$350,000 – settlement for a child injured in an automobile accident.

 

$304,500 – recovered for an eight-year old Virginia Beach girl who was attacked by a Rottweiler.

 

$300,000 - won for Portsmouth woman severely injured in head on collision.

 

$230,000 – recovery for a Virginia Beach cross country truck driver against Federal Express.  Gross Settlement included lump sum worker's compensation award, waiver of medical ill/wage indemnification and bodily injury claim award against a negligent Federal Express driver.  Plaintiff was rear-ended in his truck by a Federal Express tractor trailer in Oregon.  

 

$205,000 – won for a Virginia Beach woman injured by a negligent forklift driver in a Lowe’s Home Improvement store in Martinsville, Virginia. 

 

$135,000 - won for an U.S. Navy man stationed aboard the USS George Washington, who was struck by a tractor-trailer in the Mid-Town Tunnel.      

 

$135,000 – won for a handicapped woman who suffered a broken leg while being transported in a Sentara Medical Transport vehicle.  Sentara’s employee failed to properly secure her wheelchair and she was seriously injured when the driver slammed on the brakes.

 

$125,000 – won for a Norfolk police officer that was injured in the line of duty while investigating an auto accident.

 

$100,000 – won for an Eastern Shore woman who was hit head on by a drunk driver.

 

$100,000 – won for a Portsmouth man injured in head-on collision.

 

$100,000 – won for Elizabeth City woman injured in a rear-end collision.

 

$85,000 – awarded to Virginia Beach woman broadsided in an auto-accident.

 

$75,000 - awarded to Portsmouth woman who suffered a broken leg during a slip & fall in a national discount store. 

 

$75,000 – awarded to a Suffolk man injured by a drunk driver.

 

$75,000 – settlement award for a Chesapeake man who broke his leg on a wet floor in a local bakery store. 

 

$70,000 – awarded to a Suffolk man against his own insurance company after they wrongly concluded that his policy was canceled on the date of his accident.

 

$60,000 - awarded to Elizabeth City man when he was struck on his motorcycle by a red light runner.

 

$50,000 – won for a Moyock, North Carolina woman injured in a Ford Explorer rollover accident.

 

$50,000 – won for Suffolk woman injured when teenage runs red light. 

 

$40,000 – won for housekeeper bitten by employer’s dog.

 

Goss & Fentress fought and secured substantial monetary awards from the Defendants’ insurance companies to pay for their clients’ serious injuries.  Extremely careless employees of several large national corporations caused the injuries in nine of the cases noted above.  The attorneys at Goss & Fentress fought and held them accountable.   

 

 

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