Case Results

In the history of the United States only a handful of lawyers have ever won a nine-figure verdict. Darren is one of those few lawyers. In 2022, Darren tried a two-week jury trial in federal court; he won $100,000,000.00. 
$100,000,000
Police Excessive Force: JURY VERDICT

2022: Our Client v. Grubbs & City of Atlanta

This high-profile case was filed in federal court under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, a federal statute pertaining to civil rights violations. After a two-week jury trial, we won $100,00,000.00. This is believed to be the largest jury verdict ever reached for this type of case.
$22,700,000
WRONGFUL DEATH

2023: Our Client v. [xxx]

We represented two young children who lost their mother in a 2019 tractor-trailer accident. Two other lawyers turned down the case because the accident report blamed the young mother for causing the accident. By tracking down witnesses around the country and hiring excellent experts we proved the police wrong. We litigated for 3 years until trial was scheduled.
$5,200,000
Tractor Accident

2022: Our Client v. [xxx]

This settlement is believed to be the largest personal injury settlement ever reached in this conservative rural Georgia county. It involved a farm tractor and an ATV where liability was hotly contested. We had to overcome multiple issues of comparative negligence. We successfully overcame the challenges and secured the full insurance coverage just before trial.
$4,950,000
BOX TRUCK ACCIDENT

2021: Our Client v. [xxx large company]

A multi-vehicle collision left several families changed forever. We represented one of the families.
$4,000,000
MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT

2021: Our Client v. Daiki Corporation & Ogawa

A businessman visiting from Japan struck our client on a motorcycle. Our client was an aspiring mixed martial arts fighter who fought for his professional living before the crash, and then fought for his recovery after the crash. After several successful surgeries, our client is back in the ring sparring and fighting.
$3,070,000
DELIVERY TRUCK ACCIDENT

2024: Our Client v. H & L Distributors Inc.

A devastating wreck changed a family. Our law firm handled everything for the family.
$3,000,000
TRACTOR-TRAILER ACCIDENT

2020: Our Client v. [xxx national transportation company]

Another lawyer associated us to assist him on a case. Our client’s family did not have to attend any hearings because we met with the defense lawyers for the transportation company, insurance company, and driver of the tractor.
$3,000,000
APARTMENT COMPLEX SHOOTING

2018: Our Client v. Apartment Complex

Our client suffered injuries as a result of owners of an apartment complex ignoring ongoing crime that constantly took place on the property.
$2,950,000
INSURANCE CO. BAD FAITH

2018: Our Client’s Estate v. Mills

We made the defendant driver’s insurance company pay an additional $450,000 on top of the entire $2.5 million dollar insurance policy limit, because we proved that the driver's insurance company had acted in 'bad faith'.
$2,000,000
JURY VERDICT: HOTEL INJURY

2024: Our Client v. Sunrise Real Estate Partners

A jury trial in Gwinnett County with excellent witnesses resulted in a jury verdict of $2 million dollars when our client only had $130,000 in medical bills for one surgery to her hand. We beat the offer we extended months earlier which triggered additional fees under O.C.G.A. 9-11-68(a).
$1,610,000
TRUCK ACCIDENT

2024: Our Client v. Nacoochee Contracting, Stacy Sullens, C. Farmer

Our law firm was asked to take lead in resolving a major case where our client suffered arm and leg injuries. We hired experts to look at weight loading issues with the truck and possible issues with the tires.
$1,600,000
JURY VERDICT: BICYCLE ON BICYCLE

2024: Our Client v. Peek

State Farm offered our client $430,000 to settle his injury case. Two years later we tried the case to verdict, and the jury returned a verdict of $1,600,000. This was a bicycle striking another bicycle case.
$1,500,000
LOSS OF CONSORTIUM

2019: Our Client v. Barr

This was one of the largest loss of consortium settlements in Georgia history in terms of the injury sustained relative to neither spouse suffering any long-term injury.
$1,500,000
MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT

2018: Our Client v. Covington

After several months of aggressive litigation, the insurance company did a 180 and paid.
$1,000,000
VAN STRUCK PEDESTRIAN

2021: Our Client v. RH&A, LLC & Bowen

Another law firm associated us to help litigate a case. We represented an elderly widow who lost her husband.
$1,000,000
CAR ACCIDENT

2021: Our Client v. UIM American Family Insurance Co.

Another Georgia-licensed lawyer called us to help him prepare for trial.
$975,000
CAR ACCIDENT

2019: Our Client v. Suazo

With a broken leg as a result of a head-on wreck, our client had $167,000 in medical bills. We spent months preparing our client and witnesses for trial; that intense preparation paid off when the defendant driver’s insurance company’s lawyer defending the driver met with us before trial.
$950,000
PREMISES LIABILITY

2018: Our Client v. Georgia Farm

We secured a favorable pre-lawsuit settlement for our client’s arm and leg injuries.
$935,288
JURY VERDICT: CAR ACCIDENT

2018: Our Client v. Howse and Nationwide Affinity Insurance Company of America

The jury returned a verdict after a 4-day jury trial.
$900,000
WAREHOUSE ACCIDENT

2023: Our Client v. Major Corporation

Even with a language barrier that required a full-time translator, we resolved this case a few weeks after mediation on a challenging causation issue.
$750,000
JURY VERDICT: TRUCK ACCIDENT

2018: Our Client v. Pemberton Truck Lines Inc.

We went to trial in the United States District Court Northern District of Georgia.
$700,000
WORK TRUCK ACCIDENT

2019: Our Client v. Bravo and Clean Water Consultants Inc.

We deposed the driver as well as the company’s 30(b)(6) corporate representative who provided conflicting testimony, and after we gathered evidence from former employees to prove our theory, we resolved the case at mediation for over six and half times the medical bills.
$677,000
DRUNK DRIVING ACCIDENT

2021: Our Client v. Hall

A drunk driving college student collided with our client's vehicle.
$615,000
TRACTOR-TRAILER ACCIDENT

2020: Our Client v. [xxx major transportation company]

While driving to Athens, Georgia on GA-316, our client was rear-ended by a tractor.
$600,000
BAD FAITH AGAINST INSURANCE CO

2023: Our Client v. Allstate

We offered Allstate Insurance Company a chance to pay $100,000 which was the maximum exposure they faced. Allstate (unwisely) counteroffered. We proved that Allstate had acted in "bad faith" and forced Allstate to pay $500,000 above their contractual limit.
$600,000
LEGAL MALPRACTICE

2023: Our Client v. Our Client's Former Law Firm

A different personal injury lawyer who practices law with a different law firm committed malpractice. That lawyer hid his negligence from the client. Several years later, the client called us to investigate. We dug and discovered the wrongdoing. We forced that lawyer to own up to his mistake and pay our client what he was rightfully due.
$550,000
PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT

2021: Our Client v. Patel

Two vehicles collided that resulted in one of the vehicles striking our client who was standing on the sidewalk. We helped our client negotiate her medical bills so that she would keep the lion’s share of the policy settlement.
$550,000
FLATBED TRUCK ACCIDENT

2021: Our Client v. [Truck Driver xxx and Truck Company xxx]

Another lawyer called us to assist him in federal court. After traveling to Tennessee to take depositions of surgeons; Alabama to depose the company’s corporate representative; and north Georgia to depose an eyewitness who corroborated our client’s story, the case resolved. The referring lawyer was extremely happy with the result.
$545,000
PEDESTRIAN NOT IN CROSSWALK

2023: Our Client v. Progressive, State Farm, USAA & Auto-Owners

We represented a widow who lost her husband in a collision. The gentleman who passed was not in the crosswalk at the time he entered the roadway, plus a witness said that the gentleman was crossing on a red walk signal. Despite the evidence against us, the experts we hired helped us secure a victory.
$525,000
AUTO ACCIDENT

2021: Our Client v. [Company xxx]

An auto accident resulted in our client undergoing a C5-C6 anterior cervical discectomy. Prior to the wreck, our client was an avid hiker who spent a lot of time exploring the outdoors. His injuries sidelined him for a long time.
$500,000
RIDE-SHARE WRECK

2023: Our Client v. [Ride-Share Co.]

The other driver t-boned our client's vehicle which caused our client to break her ankle. With $140,000 in medical bills, we resolved the case for a little more than 3.5 times the bills.
$500,000
DRUNK DRIVING ACCIDENT

2021: Our Clients v. Carruthers

We built a powerful punitive damages case so that even though our clients had bills totaling only $2,000, we collected the maximum insurance available.
$500,000
HAIR SALON BURN

2020: Our Client v. [xxx local salon company]

Our young client suffered a serious scalp burn when she had a hair treatment.
$480,000
AIRBNB PORCH SWING COLLAPSE

2020: Our Client v. Airbnb

While staying at an Airbnb rented lake house in Alabama, our client fell off a swing after the hook snapped. We drafted an 18-page lawsuit to file in an Alabama court naming the owner of the lake house, the retailer that sold the swing, the distributor of the swing, and Airbnb.
$460,000
RIDE-SHARE ACCIDENT

2024: Our Client v. [xxx national ride sharing company]

A young man who had a complicated medical history, originally hired a different lawyer who couldn't get the insurance company's lawyers to ever offer more than $300,000. After mutually parting ways with his first lawyer, the young man hired us. We ultimately secured this young man an additional $160,000.
$425,000
TRACTOR-TRAILER CRASH

2023: Our Client v. Truck Co. and Driver

An 18-wheeler driver tried making a wide turn at an intersection. He almost made it, but our client was speeding in the opposite direction. We overcame issues of contributory negligence and resolved our client's case at mediation for a sum our client was very pleased to accept.
$421,500
RIDE-SHARE CAR ACCIDENT

2020: Our Client v. [xxx national ride sharing company]

Recovering from a prior back surgery, our client was a backseat passenger when his driver negligently merged lanes and collided with another vehicle. The crash exacerbated his recovery.
$403,000
18-WHEELER SIDESWIPE

2022: Our Client v. Truck Co. and National Continental

An 18-wheeler sideswiped our client’s Chevrolet Suburban leading to our client swerving off the road. As a result of the collision, our client had to have shoulder surgery to repair a small labrum tear. Fortunately, he made a full recovery, and the case resolved relatively early.
$400,000
JURY VERDICT: CAR ACCIDENT

2021: Our Client v. Atlanta Beverage Company and Bruce Susel

We tried one of the only jury trials in the state of Georgia during the pandemic. The highest offer that the defense ever offered our client was $150,000. We took the case to trial and beat the offer by $250,000.
$350,000
WORK ACCIDENT

2022: Our Client v. Allstate

We tracked down an insurance policy that Allstate never disclosed.
$345,000
AMBULANCE CRASH

2023: Our Client v. Grady EMS

We filed an Offer of Settlement under § 9-11-67.1 and resolved the case after depositions of doctors, experts and witnesses.
$335,000
AUTO WRECK

2023: Our Client v. Progressive

Disputed liability didn't stop us helping our client secure a big win at mediation.
$325,000
BOX TRUCK ACCIDENT

2018: Our Client v. [xxx Corp.]

By canvassing the neighborhood and interviewing local business owners, we found crucial surveillance camera footage that showed the crash and established liability that until that point, was in dispute.
$302,000
CAR ACCIDENT

2019: Our Client v. Brown and American Family Insurance

The case resolved after depositions of the negligent at-fault defendant and witnesses.
$294,099
MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT

2021: Our Client v. Right Angle Contracting (Mercury Insurance)

After a Ford 250 Supercab struck our client’s Kia Spectra, our client was left with a torn meniscus in her knee.
$292,871
VERDICT: DUI ACCIDENT

2018: Our Client v. McRae

Our client was struck by a drunk and high driver. Our client had less than $3,000 in medical bills, but we won an award that was almost 100 times more than the medical bills. This was one of the rare cases where in addition to collecting the car insurance proceeds, we also made the defendant driver pay money from his own checking account because of his reckless decisions.
$277,000
REAR-END AUTO ACCIDENT

2020: Our Client v. Oppenheimer

A young mother from Louisiana was rear-ended while visiting family in Georgia. The property damage to the cars was mild which made proving the damages difficult. By getting good medical testimony from doctors, we proved that even if the property damage was minimal, the injuries that resulted from the impact were serious.
$275,000
TRUCK ACCIDENT

2019: Our Client v. Osborne

A tractor driver for a major transportation company failed to follow the federal safety rules.
$260,000
CAR ACCIDENT

2022: Our Client v. Schroeder

Our client suffered a costochondral dislocation in his ribs which means two his ribs were separated from the cartilage. Our client’s medical bills only came to $37,000.
$260,000
MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT

2019: Our Client v. Knox

The defendant driver, a cancer survivor who was driving home from a chemotherapy appointment, struck the back tire of our client’s motorcycle. We settled because our client did not want to put the defendant driver through a trial.
$259,066
BUS ACCIDENT

2022: Our Client v. MTI Limo and Shuttle Services Inc.

Significant verdict after trial in favor of our client who had suffered minor injuries.
$250,000
GOLF CART INJURY

2021: Our Client v. RICO International

Before he hired us, our client was represented by an advertising law firm you see on television. The highest offer the client ever received in four years was $100,000. The client ultimately fired that law firm and hired our law firm. Within six months we settled for $250,000--almost triple the best offer the advertising law firm ever managed.
$250,000
AMUSEMENT PARK INJURY

2021: Our Client v. [xxx amusement park]

While visiting an amusement park, our client jumped into what he thought was a giant inflatable airbag. Unbeknownst to our client, this particular giant inflatable airbag had been deflated; as a result, our client landed on the concrete ground. Fortunately, he made an excellent recovery after his surgery.
$240,295
T-BONE COLLISION

2022: Our Client v. Bailey

The defense fought us on liability and even went so far as to hire a medical expert to testify that our client was exaggerating his injuries. Despite their medical expert, we won. The judge granted our motion for fees under O.C.G.A § 13-6-11 and the insurance company paid tens of thousands of dollars more than they expected to.
$240,000
LEGAL MALPRACTICE

2024: Our Client v. [xxx Atlanta personal injury lawyer]

A plaintiff's personal injury lawyer, failed to take critical steps to properly prosecute the client's case. Those errors resulted in the client losing her case. We filed suit against that personal injury lawyer and won for our client more money than she would have gotten in the underlying case that her lawyer was representing her in.
$225,000
CAR ACCIDENT

2021: Our Client v. Fulton and McCoy

The at-fault driver and the owner of the car that the at-fault driver was driving never took responsibility. We pursued the case against four different insurance companies. Ultimately, we won and made every insurance company tender all of the insurance available despite the at-fault driver and the owner of the car refusing to take responsibility.
$201,000
PEDESTRIAN STRUCK

2024: Our Client v. Wright

A driver not paying attention struck our client who was crossing the road.