Settlements & Verdicts

Representative results
from serious injury cases.

John Hatch has resolved more than 400 litigation cases and more than 1,000 pre-litigation cases, with results totalling more than $50,000,000 for injured clients.

EXPERIENCE STATEMENT

Built from high-volume
litigation experience.

Before founding The Hatch Law Firm, John Hatch served as managing attorney at Injury Legal Center, P.C. During that time he started and grew the litigation practice, and handled hundreds of litigated personal injury cases through settlement, mediation, arbitration and trial.

$50M+

Recovered for clients

400+

Litigation cases resolved

1,000+

Pre-litigation cases resolved

TOP RECOVERIES

Verdicts and settlements.

Eight representative matters. Two were decided by a jury; the rest resolved before trial.

Jump to a group. Counts reflect the eight matters listed below.

TRIAL VERDICTS

Two of these were
decided by a jury.

A verdict means the case was tried rather than settled. It is the clearest evidence that a file was built to be tried.

TRIAL VERDICT · PREMISES LIABILITY

$3,500,000

Long Beach Hotel Floor Mat Verdict

Verdict in Long Beach for a shattered patella caused by a poorly maintained built-in floor mat at a hotel.

TRIAL VERDICT · AUTO COLLISION

$1,869,000

Rancho Cucamonga Head-On Collision Verdict

Verdict for cervical disc replacement and carpal tunnel release injuries following a head-on car crash.

SETTLEMENTS

Resolved before trial.

Six matters resolved through negotiation, mediation or arbitration. Four reached the limit of the available insurance.

COMMERCIAL TRUCK

1 $1,750,000

Combined Settlement for Two Plaintiffs

COMMERCIAL TRUCK SETTLEMENT

Combined settlement for two plaintiffs struck by a commercial shipping truck, causing severe internal injuries and spinal injuries.

POLICY LIMITS SETTLEMENTS

4 $1,250,000

Tibial Plateau Fracture Settlement

AUTO COLLISION

Policy limits settlement for a woman who shattered her tibial plateau after a head-on collision forced her knee into the dashboard.

$1,250,000

Spine Surgery Settlement

REAR-END COLLISION

Policy limits settlement for a high-speed rear-end collision resulting in neck and low back surgery.

$1,000,000

Young Skateboarder Injury Settlement

PEDESTRIAN / DELIVERY DRIVER

Policy limits settlement for a young skateboarder struck at night by a delivery driver, resulting in cervical injury and brain injury.

$1,000,000

Motorcyclist Femur Fracture Settlement

MOTORCYCLE / TRUCK

Policy limits settlement for a motorcyclist hit by a semi-truck making a wide turn, causing a femur fracture.

DOG BITE

1 $450,000

Permanent Lip Injury and Scarring

DOG BITE SETTLEMENT

Settlement for a construction worker walking back to his car when a pit bull bit his upper lip, causing permanent injury and scarring.

READING THESE NUMBERS

A number on its own
does not tell you much.

What matters is what stood between the client and that figure, and whether anything more was available to recover.

01 Trial verdict

The case was tried and a jury decided it. Nothing was agreed — the number was awarded. Two of the results above are verdicts.

02 Policy limits settlement

The insurer paid the full amount available under the policy. There was nothing further to recover from that coverage. Four of the results above reached that ceiling.

03 Why the injury is named

Every result above names the injury — a shattered patella, a femur fracture, a brain injury. The figure only means something alongside the harm it answers for.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

The representative results above were obtained by John Hatch while he was the managing attorney at Injury Legal Center, P.C., where he started and grew the firm’s litigation practice. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is different and depends on its facts, injuries, available insurance, venue, liens, liability evidence, and causation proof.

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