Compiled by Jessica Thompson
$57 million
Sieben Polk
Michael S. Polk
In re: A.P.I., Inc.
693 individuals settled lawsuits against the St. Paul-based insulation distributor and contractor after suffering from one or more asbestos-related diseases.
$7.3 million
Mackenzie & Dornik; Lynn Jackson Shulz & Lebrun (Sioux Falls)
John M. Dornik; Jon Sogn
Plaintiff v. Defendant
The plaintiff sustained brain injury when his personal watercraft was struck by a power boat on a lake in Kandiyohi County.
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$7.2 million
Harper & Peterson; Shernoff, Bidart & Darras
Paul D. Peterson and Lori L. Barton; Ricardo Echeverria
Geo. M. Martin Company v. Royal Insurance Company of America
A 32-year-old industrial worker suffered severe head trauma, loss of sight, partial paralysis and traumatic brain injury while working on Martin Company equipment. The defendant insurer failed to settle the lawsuit against Martin, its insured. The plaintiff recovered the $5 million it had paid to settle the worker's lawsuit, plus $2.2 million dollars in interest, in this insurance bad faith action.
$4.5 million
Flynn Gaskins Bennett
Eric Hageman and Robert Bennett
Ngo v. Storlie
Minneapolis police officer Duy Ngo was shot multiple times by a fellow officer while working undercover in 2003. He underwent 26 surgeries.
$3.2 million
Sieben Grose Von Holtum & Carey
John W. Carey and Steven D. Emmings
Plaintiff v. Defendants
Doctors failed to correctly interpret fetal heart monitor tracings during a childbirth, causing the infant's severe spastic quadriparetic cerebral palsy and very limited ability to communicate.
$3.1 million
Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi
Philip Sieff and William J. Maddix
18-Year-Old Male v. Boat Operator and Owners
While inner-tubing on Christmas Lake, an 18-year-old male's right arm was severed above the elbow when a 14-year-old boater drove over him.
$2.8 million
Curott & Associates
Richard Curott
P. v. B. Brothers Inc.
The plaintiff suffered reflex sympathetic dystrophy and post-traumatic stress disorder after an accident in which a truck driver failed to yield.
$2.6 million
Leonard O'Brien Spencer Gale & Sayre
Edward W. Gale
Plaintiff v. Defendant
An 83-year-old pedestrian was struck by an 83-year-old driver while crossing a street at a crosswalk in St. Paul. The man sustained several orthopedic injuries and a closed head injury, and requires nursing-home care.
$2.5 million
Kosieradzki Smith Law Firm
Mark R. Kosieradzki and Joel E. Smith
Plaintiff v. Defendant
A nursing-home resident suffered permanent brain injury when the facility failed to transfer the resident for emergency medical care.
$2.5 million
Mackenzie & Dornik
Reed K. Mackenzie
T.S. v. OB-GYN and Hospital
An infant sustained severe disabilities when physicians mismanaged the inducement of labor, causing perinatal asphyxia and hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.
$2.3 million
Mackenzie & Dornik
Reed K. Mackenzie
S.S. v. Medical Center
A 48-year-old woman suffered progressive neurological problems after a doctor failed to diagnose pernicious anemia as a result of a vitamin B-12 deficiency.
$2.3 million
Schwebel Goetz & Sieben
William R. Sieben and Robert Lazear
A.T. v. Hospital
A 64-year-old woman recovering from a transplant surgery was given a medication to which she was allergic and suffered brain injury.
$2.2 million
Schwebel Goetz & Sieben
Richard L. Tousignant and Sharon Van Dyck
T. v. Waste Management
A 27-year-old truck driver's left leg was severed when he lost control of his semi-truck, rolled the vehicle, crossed the center line and struck an oncoming vehicle.
$2.2 million
Meshbesher & Spence
John P. Sheehy, Michael C. Snyder and Pamela J. Spaulding
Plaintiff v. Univar USA, Banjo Corporation, Clawson Container Company
A 59-year-old mechanic suffered chemical burns to 23 percent of his body when he was sprayed with sulfuric acid during the course of his work.
$2.1 million
Schwebel Goetz & Sieben
William E. Jepsen
T.K., Trustee for the heirs of M.K. v. W & W Trucking, Liberty Homes,
Amerimont Inc. and East Central Electric
A truck hauling part of a manufactured home along Highway 65 struck a transmission line and pulled it down, killing a man who was ejected from his motorcycle by the line.
$2 million
Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi
John F. Eisberg
M.E. v. Internist
A 54-year-old woman required a heart transplant after doctors failed to diagnose and treat her idiopathic cardiomyopathy.
$1.9 million
Kosieradzki Smith Law Firm
Mark R. Kosieradzki and Joel E. Smith
Plaintiff v. Defendant
A 42-year-old man suffered multiple orthopedic injuries and brain injury when a vehicle lost control on a snow-covered highway and hit his car.
$1.7 million
Mackenzie & Dornik
Reed K. Mackenzie
Trustee for D.B. v. Family Physician
A 52-year-old man died of a massive heart attack two days after visiting his regular family physician, who misread an EKG as "unremarkable" and failed to intervene.
$1.6 million
Sieben Grose Von Holtum & Carey
Cory Whalen
Dack v. Progressive
Two infants, ages 1 and 2, and their mother were killed in a car accident.
$1.6 million
Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi
Philip Sieff
P.H. as Trustee for the next-of-kin of T.H. v. Defendant
A 53-year-old semi-truck driver was killed when he collided with a Ford Explorer that crossed the center line and drove into oncoming traffic.
$1.6 million
Sherburne Law Offices; Price McCluer and Plachecki
James Sherburne; Michael Price
Bernice Bronk, Trustee for the heirs and next of kin of LeRoy Bronk v. Brian Moran dba Oak Ridge Grain Service and Rolling Ridge Grain LLC
A man was killed when a grain bin structure collapsed on top of his grain truck as it was being loaded.
$1.5 million
McEwan Law Firm
Gregory N. McEwan
Minor v. Minnesota Propane Retailer et al.
A minor sustained second- and third-degree burns during a gas explosion. The propane retailer failed to warn customers of the defective nature of propane warning agent ethyl mercaptan.
$1.5 million
Sieben Grose Von Holtum & Carey
Jeffrey Montpetit
Plaintiff v. Defendant
A construction laborer was killed inside a hydraulic elevator when a co-worker cut a hydraulic line servicing the elevator, causing it to descend and crush the man.
$1.5 million
Sieben Grose Von Holtum & Carey
John W. Carey, Judy L. Emmings, Steven D. Emmings
Plaintiff v. Defendant
A baby was born with significant physical and cognitive defects as a result of the acne medicine prescribed to the mother during her first trimester of pregnancy.
$1.4 million
Hauer Fargione Love Landy & McEllistrem
Robert J. Hauer Jr.
Plaintiff v. Defendant
A man was killed and his wife suffered traumatic brain injury in an auto collision.
$1.4 million
Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi; Sieben Grose Von Holtum & Carey
Chris A. Messerly; Paul Schwieger
Pregnant Nurse v. Big Trucks
A woman who was eight-and-a-half months pregnant was rear-ended by two trucks, causing the death of her child.
$1.3 million
Vandelist & Vandelist
Mark C. Vandelist
K.B. v. Electric Component Sales Inc.
A St. Paul man sustained a pelvic fracture, mild traumatic brain injury and a right sacroiliac joint separation when he was traveling on a motorcycle and the defendant turned left in front of him, causing an accident.
$1.3 million
Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi
John F. Eisberg and Kathleen Flynn Peterson
Female Teenager v. Hospital and Clinic
A 15-year-old girl died of massive blood loss shock after doctors failed to diagnose her mononucleosis and instead performed an unnecessary surgery to remove her gallbladder.
$1.3 million
Sieben Grose Von Holtum & Carey; Steinhagen & Crist
James Carey; James M. Crist
Plaintiff v. Defendant
A 22-year-old woman lost control of her SUV and crashed into a bridge pillar, killing herself and her 21-year-old female passenger.
$1.3 million
Schwebel Goetz & Sieben
Robert L. Lazear and James R. Schwebel
T.M. v. G.H.
A 35-year-old was rear-ended by a pickup truck in a construction zone and sustained a post-concussive disorder.
$1.2 million
Harper & Peterson
Paul D. Peterson
R.H. and A.H., Husband and Wife v. Madison T. Bieniek and Robert J. Bieniek, and their liability insurance company, State Farm Automobile Insurance Company and USAA Insurance Company, the underinsured motorist coverage insurer for the claimants
A husband and wife sustained serious injuries when an SUV abruptly turned in front of their car on Highway 5 in Lake Elmo, causing a collision.
$1.2 million
Sieben Grose Von Holtum & Carey
Jeffrey S. Sieben
Elsie Capp v. Dorisa Ashley Tranby and Paul Douglas Tranby
Capp sustained a right femur fracture and permanent right lower-extremity and brain injuries after a pickup truck lost control and caused a head-on collision.
$1.1 million
Finn Shapiro; Sieben Grose
Von Holtum & Carey
Allen F. Shapiro; Arthur Kosieradzki
Economy Premier Assurance v. R.W., M.W., M.W., C.L., R.T., Co-Trustees for the Next of Kin of J.T., Progressive Insurance Company and Illinois Farmers Insurance Company
A 35-year-old woman was killed and her 44-year-old husband injured when they were rear-ended on Highway 7 by a driver under the influence of methamphetamines and Ecstasy.
$1.1 million
Larson King
Shawn M. Raiter
Doe v. Surgeon
A 72-year-old patient was rendered paraplegic during spine surgery. The surgeon stopped practicing days later because of a medical condition that existed prior to the surgery.
$1.1 million
Sieben Grose Von Holtum & Carey
James Carey
Plaintiff v. Defendant
A man was riding in the defendant's car when he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into an SUV. The defendant drove to a nearby parking lot, removed the man and two female passengers from his car and left the scene. The man died later from injuries sustained in the accident.
$1 million
Robert Wilson and Associates
Robert Wilson
Plaintiff v. Defendant Bar
A 23-year-old man was rendered quadriplegic after being rear-ended by a drunken driver while stopped at a stoplight.
$1 million
Goldenberg & Johnson
Michael K. Johnson
Ms. Jane Doe v. XYZ Corporation
A woman's skin turned a permanent shade of blue-gray after consumption of a nutritional supplement containing a heavy metal as its "active ingredient."
$1 million
Sieben Grose Von Holtum & Carey
Jeffrey S. Sieben
Nixon v. Thompson
A woman was driving through an intersection when an oncoming vehicle failed to yield the right-of-way, causing a collision. The woman required cervical syrinx surgery. L&P
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