Scolinos, Sheldon & Nevell LLP Case Results
EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION
$17,400,000
Jury verdict for a sanitation worker who suffered retaliation, discrimination and harassment by the employer, causing severe emotional distress and physical injuries.
NEGLIGENCE
$17,200,000
Jury verdict for amputation suffered in an automobile collision
DEFECTIVE PRODUCT
$11,300,000
Settlement against car maker for defectively designed automobile causing severe burn injuries.
NEGLIGENCE
$10,000,000
Settlement reached after student suffered severe burns as a consequence of negligent supervision at school.
MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT
$8,500,000
Judgment in favor of plaintiff injured in motorcycle accident.
INJURY
$8,000,000
Recovery by a young girl severely burned in industrial explosion and fire.
WRONGFUL DEATH
$7,700,000
Settlement for parents of adult child killed in an automobile collision.
WRONGFUL DEATH
$5,300,000
Believed to be the largest wrongful death verdict in the history of the County of Monterey. Installer electrocuted at a produce packing plant.
PREMISES LIABILITY
$4,500,000
Settlement for family of maintenance worker killed by defective light poll.
INSURANCE
$3,600,000
Insurance bad faith recovery for policyholder wrongfully denied underinsured motorist benefits.
AUTO ACCIDENT
$3,500,000
Jury verdict for plaintiff burned in a vehicle explosion.
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
$3,100,000
Settlement for wrongful death of a patient who died following surgery.
WORKPLACE INJURY
$3,000,000
Construction worker recovers against a general contractor for head injuries caused when a ladder collapsed beneath him on a job site.
DEFAMATION
$2,500,000
Jury verdict in favor of a former police chief for defamation.
AUTO ACCIDENT
$1,690,000
Teenage girl suffered head injury and coma following rollover of a passenger van.
PERSONAL INJURY
$1,652,000
Liability jury verdict in favor of a former FBI agent and his family. The agent suffered blindness in one eye as a result of the negligence of a trash disposal company.
SEXUAL HARRASSMENT
$1,500,000
Secretary recovers against her employer for sexual harassment.
WRONGFUL DEATH
$1,300,000
Wrongful death of young man with no surviving dependents struck by moving van.
SEXUAL HARRASSMENT
$1,300,000
Minor sexually assaulted by employee of cruise ship.
AUTO ACCIDENT
$1,200,000
Motorist rear-ended by big rig tractor-trailer on freeway and burned in ensuing explosion and fire.
WORKPLACE INJURIES
$1,200,000
Construction worker severely injured following a fall from scaffolding.
PREMISES LIABILITY
$1,200,000
Jury verdict for plaintiff injured in fall from a staircase.
AUTO ACCIDENT
$1,000,000
Motorist injured in an automobile accident; struck by emergency services vehicle.
DOG ATTACK
$1,000,000
Pedestrian attacked by a vicious dog.