Greensboro, NC
Personal injury Lawyer at Greensboro, NC
Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Lawsuits & Disputes ... +3 more
OUTCOME: $1,500,000
On May 5, 2015, Drew Brown obtained a 1.5 Million arbitration award against State Farm on behalf of a client who sustained a brain injury in a Greensboro, North Carolina motorcycle wreck. ... State Farm’s highest offer in the case was $350,000.
OUTCOME: Jury Verdict, $500,000, upheld on Appeal
Drew Brown took a case to trial in Alamance County jury on behalf of R.T. Hudgins, a businessman whose real estate partner had taken the full profits on a land deal without giving Hudgins his share. T ... he Defendant was well-known Alamance County businessman G.W. Wagoner, who was represented by a large, well-respected Greensboro law firm. The jury awarded $250,000 in compensatory damages and another $250,000 in punitive damages, the largest known verdict at that time in that county in many years. Wagoner appealed the verdict. The NC Court of Appeals sided with Brown’s client and upheld the verdict in the published opinion Hudgins v. Wagoner, 694 S.E.2d 436 (2010), which has been cited in courtrooms across North Carolina. The North Carolina Supreme Court likewise allowed the verdict to stand on March 10, 2011. The defendant still refused to pay and in June, 2011, Brown ultimately obtained $600,000 for his client (the amount of the Judgment plus an additional $100,000 in interest) from a bank letter of credit previously posted by Mr. Wagoner.
OUTCOME: $300,000 Verdict
Drew Brown and Bob Benson represented Charles McKinnon, a homeless Greensboro man who had been injured by his employer in a fight. The defendant’s attorney claimed that the plaintiff had started the f ... ight and that he was acting in self-defense. The case came on for trial the week of August 23, 2010 in Guilford County Superior Court. The plaintiff required emergency surgery on his neck following the incident. Following Brown’s closing argument, the jury awarded $300,000. The firm’s subsequent collection efforts nabbed a seven unit apartment complex. The case made headlines in papers around the United States. Further collection efforts are ongoing.
OUTCOME: $544,099.28 Verdict
Drew Brown represented Iranian immigrants Hossein and Hassan Ahmadi in a two week adversary proceeding before the Honorable Catherine Carruthers in federal bankruptcy court in the Middle District of No ... rth Carolina. The trial took place in October 2008. Judge Carruthers issued a 222 page opinion awarding Ahmadi $544,099.28 which included interest. A costs motion was subsequently granted in part as well. The highest offer made to Ahmadis’ previous attorney before Brown’s involvement in the case was $20,000. The matter arose out a fleet of used automobiles belonging to Mr. Ahmadi which were damaged by employees of Brokers, Inc. It is one of the only known reported cases in the United States where a bankruptcy court awarded punitive damages against a bankrupt debtor. Brokers, Inc. chose not to appeal and the amount awarded along with interest was paid in full. The full opinion is available here:
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