Georgia’s largest jury verdicts in recent years have ranged from $100 million, in the case of an elderly homeless man paralyzed from the neck down after being tased by an Atlanta police officer, to a record-setting $2.5 billion against Ford Motor Co., in a fatal truck rollover case.
In civil injury cases that resulted in nine- and 10-figure verdicts, jurors across the state were tasked with determining liability against the city of Atlanta, boat and car manufacturers, music giant Sony, a corporate landlord, care providers, a young driver and solar farm developers.
Jurors in those nine cases awarded a total of more than $5 billion in damages, in part to the families of eight people killed in various incidents…