Description: 30 year old man hit head-on in Minneapolis suburb.
Injury: Broken foot, knee meniscus injury, head trauma, and neck injury.
Outcome: $170,000
Description: 57 year old woman hit as a pedestrian while on her morning walk.
Injury: Comminuted fracture of the left humerus.
Outcome: $25,000
Description: 68 year old man slipped and fell in his apartment building parking lot.
Injury: Severe comminuted fractures of the tibia.
Outcome: $57,500
Description: 8 year old boy struck in the crosswalk on his way to school.
Injury: Severe fracture of the left femur requiring a special fixator for leg length discrepancy.
Outcome: $310,000
Description: 33 year old man was driving a rural gravel road on his way to work when tractor trailer loaded with pigs failed to yield at the intersection.
Injury: Severe degloving of the lower body requiring multiple skin grafts, multiple comminuted fractures of the pelvis, left femoral deep vein thrombosis, colostomy, urinary tract dysfunction, scarring.
Outcome: $5.1 million
Description: 6 year old boy bitten in the face by the neighbor’s dog.
Injury: Laceration with minor scar near the mouth.
Outcome: $44,000
Description: 3 year old struck in the eye by a defective product.
Injury: Loss of vision to right eye.
Outcome: $480,000
Description: 40 year old man rear-ended at high speed.
Injury: Soft tissue injuries to the ribs, neck and shoulder.
Outcome: $30,000