Sentence examples for largest verdict from inspiring English sources

In 1993, in the largest verdict in New York State history, Mr. Weitz led a team of lawyers that won $197 million for five people injured when their rental car hit a parked truck, a case that was ultimately settled.

"He would pick the cases that had the largest verdict potential," said Dewey W. Wells, a former state court judge who litigated against Mr. Edwards as a defense lawyer.

A fanatically devoted father, and an equally dedicated friend, Bob was also a renowned advocate: As a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, he co-chaired the national trial group, and co-led the trial team that won the country's largest verdict of 2008.

In 2010 he won the largest verdict for sexual abuse against the Boy Scouts of America.

Michael J. Bidart won a $120 million jury verdict against an HMO (the largest verdict against an HMO in history) over its refusal to pay for care recommended by the health plan's own physicians.

In 2009, after a civil trial, a federal jury awarded Johnson a jumbo sized $21 million in compensatory damages -- perhaps the largest verdict in a wrongful conviction case in Chicago history.

And then the jury found for Edwards's client and awarded damages of $3.7 million, one of the largest verdicts in North Carolina history.

However, as many observers predicted, the Roberts court failed to deliver the larger verdict that the Constitution calls for in its equal protection clause: a broad ruling establishing a nationwide right of same-sex couples to wed.

Mr. Gilmartin seemed relatively unfazed after a day of difficult questions from Mr. Lanier, who in August won an even larger verdict against Merck in the first Vioxx personal injury case.

Clearly, if a supermarket had hired drunken guards who shot at innocent passers-by, it would be liable for the conduct of its employees, and may even be put out of business by a large verdict.

As long as the Florida ruling was up in the air, the tobacco companies had a strong incentive to strike a deal in New York in an effort to pre-empt the larger verdict.