Below is a sampling of verdicts and settlements obtained by Pryor Priest & Harber. If you wish to speak to a lawyer from our office in Knoxville, please complete our online contact form.
| Type of Case |
Case Description |
Verdict, Judgment, or Settlement |
| Defective Product |
Automobile product defect |
$12.5 million |
| Automobile Accident |
Motor vehicle defect |
$11.5 million |
| Automobile Accident |
Building materials retailer dropped
package from its truck causing wreck
resulting in brain damage to husband driver
and wife passenger. |
$9.3 million |
| Tractor-Trailer Accident |
Child brain damaged in tractor-trailer wreck |
$5 Million |
| Personal Injury |
Burn injuries |
$4.7 Million |
| Wrongful Death |
Drunk driver automobile crash |
$4.2 Million |
| Medical Malpractice |
Child brain damaged at birth |
$3 Million |
| Professional Negligence |
Construction defect involving contractor and engineering firm |
$3 Million |
| Personal Injury |
Water-slide accident |
$2.5 Million |
| Automobile Accident |
Pedestrian automobile injuries |
$2 Million |
| Automobile Accident |
Drunk driver automobile crash |
$2 Million |
| Motorcycle Accident |
Major bodily injuries |
$2 Million |
| Automobile Accident |
Parking lot pedestrian accident |
$1.3 Million |
Insurance Law and
Professional Negligence |
Insurance carrier’s negligent failure to advise insured of changes to coverage |
$1.2 Million |
| Wrongful Death and Defective Product |
Negligent failure to secure trailer and trailer becomes detached. Failure to warn of defective design. |
$1.1 Million |
| Medical Malpractice |
Negligent failure of government entity to provide adequate medical treatment |
$1.1 Million |
| Personal Injury |
Elderly woman loses lower leg when struck by automobile |
$1.1 Million |
| Personal Injury |
Tree falls in campground striking camper |
$1 Million |
| Personal Injury |
Burn injuries from electrical explosion |
$750,000 |
| Automobile Accident |
Failure to yield – intersection wreck |
$675,000 |
| Wrongful Death |
Failure to yield – intersection wreck |
$600,000 |
| Tractor-Trailer Accident |
Tractor-trailer/automobile wreck |
$600,000 |
| Insurance Law |
Stacking of out-of-state uninsured motorist coverage |
$600,000 |
| Automobile Accident |
Automobile/truck intersection collision
with physical and emotional injury to the
automobile driver. |
$595,000 |
| Tractor-Trailer Accident |
Rear-end tractor-trailer accident |
$550,000 |
| Professional Negligence |
Sexual assault by another resident at an adolescent treatment facility |
$470,000 |
| Automobile Accident |
Improperly designed roadway |
$400,000 |
| Wrongful Death |
Rear-end tractor-trailer collision |
$300,000 |
| Personal Injury |
Chair lift accident – negligent failure to assist customer onto chair lift |
$250,000 |
| Premises Liability |
Defective chair resulting in fall |
$225,000 |
| Premises Liability |
Slip and fall on a wet floor – failure to warn |
$225,000.00 |
Other significant monetary settlements subject to confidentiality agreements required by defendants include:
- U-Haul truck stalled on interstate highway
- Two injuries and one death caused by defective cruise control in automobile
- DOT worker knocked from bucket truck causing death
- Child brain damaged at birth
- Worker injured and burned in a gas explosion
- Train hits car resulting in death
- Death when forklift overturned
- Surgical procedure on wrong body part
- Negligent emergency response and failure to adequately treat
- Psychiatric patient negligently released resulting in death to third party
- Hospital ICU brain damage to young father as a result of unsuctioned mucous plug causing airway obstruction
- Extensive burn injuries suffered by child as a result of gasoline spill near unelevated gas water heater
- Death of husband and father as a result of overexertion during work-required treadmill run
- Brain damage and ultimate death of hospitalized kidney stone patient due to morphine overdose
- Hand injury to newborn infant as a result of IV line
- Paralysis suffered in rollover collision caused by defective tire
- Extensive burn injuries to child caused by defectively designed deep fryer
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*Past results cannot guarantee or predict similar future outcomes.
