What the juries decided.
Eric J. Hertz has tried more than one hundred jury trials and resolved hundreds of matters, with millions of dollars recovered for clients. A selection of the results that reached the press.
A family lost a loved one in a case that turned on accountability for serving an obviously impaired patron. The defense disputed both responsibility and the value of the loss. The jury returned forty million dollars.
A commercial truck collision left the client with a traumatic brain injury. The pretrial offer was one hundred fifty thousand dollars. The jury valued the harm at eleven million, seventy three times what was offered.
A client was assaulted in a case that drew coverage well beyond Georgia. Liability and damages were contested. The jury returned six point four million dollars.
A collision the defense framed as a question of fault. The offer was one hundred thousand dollars. The jury returned two point seven five million.
A motorcycle collision causing a serious leg injury, with damages disputed. The result set a Fayette state court record at the time, one verdict in a long pattern of results.
A jury heard how a resident's final days were stripped of the dignity she was owed. For her family, the verdict put a number on it: one million dollars.
Causation was contested from the first day. The jury weighed the medical proof and returned what is believed to be the largest back injury verdict ever recorded in Walton County, Georgia.
The cases the papers followed.
Three fifteen year old girls lost on Halloween Eve, in a case that drew national attention.
Having written the Georgia treatise on punitive damages, the firm takes on cases where the conduct itself deserves punishment.
A case involving the death of a young child, taken to account in open court.
The firm has represented numerous police officers injured on duty and off.
Resolved by what is among the largest jail suicide settlements recorded for the county.
Multiple children injured at a Loganville day care, a case the firm pursued for the families.
An international suit for soldiers killed overseas, resolved after years of litigation by confidential settlement.
From the assault verdict above to matters involving other public figures, the firm brings the same discipline when the defendant has a spotlight.
Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
