Significant Cases

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.

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Verdict 01 · Wrongful death and dram shop
$40,000,000
One of Georgia's defining wrongful death verdicts.

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.

2003 · Cobb County
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Verdict 02 · Tractor trailer brain injury
$11,000,000
The defense offered $150,000. The jury answered with far more.

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.

2007 · Fulton County
73x the pretrial offer
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Verdict 03 · High profile assault
$6,400,000
A widely reported verdict, and national attention.

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.

2014 · Cobb County
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Verdict 04 · Disputed liability collision
$2,750,000
Twenty seven times the offer on the table.

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.

Georgia
27x the pretrial offer
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Verdict 05 · Motorcycle injury
$2,150,000
A Fayette state court record.

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.

Fayette County
County record
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Verdict 06 · Nursing home neglect
$1,000,000
What dignity in her final days was worth.

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.

Georgia
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Verdict 07 · Back injury, causation disputed
$800,000
The largest back injury verdict recorded in the county.

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.

Walton County
County record
From the Headlines

The cases the papers followed.

Suit filed in Cobb crash that killed teens

Three fifteen year old girls lost on Halloween Eve, in a case that drew national attention.

AJC · 12/17/96
Veteran firefighter hit by car while battling blaze

Having written the Georgia treatise on punitive damages, the firm takes on cases where the conduct itself deserves punishment.

AJC · 8/2/03
In tears, an Atlanta officer gives his account

A case involving the death of a young child, taken to account in open court.

AJC · 5/19/99
Representing the officers

The firm has represented numerous police officers injured on duty and off.

Gwinnett Daily · 9/16/03
Inmate found hanged in cell

Resolved by what is among the largest jail suicide settlements recorded for the county.

Settlement
Burned at a day care

Multiple children injured at a Loganville day care, a case the firm pursued for the families.

AJC · 7/2/98
Nineteen soldiers, one resolution

An international suit for soldiers killed overseas, resolved after years of litigation by confidential settlement.

Confidential settlement
When the defendant is famous

From the assault verdict above to matters involving other public figures, the firm brings the same discipline when the defendant has a spotlight.

TMZ · AJC

Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

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