Woman Wins Big Verdict After
State Farm Offered Her Peanuts
Unanimous Jury Returns a Verdict of $1,370,025.25, In
Excess of State Farm's Policy Limits, Compensating Ms. Terri Andersen for
Injuries Sustained in 2002 Auto Collision
Calvert County, MD - - - June 5, 2006 - - - After days of
testimony and almost seven hours of deliberations, a Calvert County, Maryland
jury returned a verdict of $1,370,025.25 at approximately 11:30 pm on Friday,
June 2, 2006. Ms. Terri Andersen suffered permanent injuries in a 2002 car
crash, she required multiple surgeries, and she will continue to require medical
care for the rest of her life.
Prior to suit being filed, the Plaintiff offered to settle
for the Defendant's policy limits of $100,000.00 Until two weeks before the
trial, the defendant's insurance carrier, State Farm Insurance Company, only
offered $9,000.00 to resolve the case. "The Jury in this matter worked extremely
hard to come to the right decision. They clearly went through all of the
evidence in order to come to a just and fair result" said Ms. Andersen's
attorney Thomas W. Farrington, of Goldberg & Finnegan, LLC.
