I've recovered more than $23,000,000 for my clients. The 42 results published below — every one a real case — alone total more than $20 million, and I've resolved many more. Every case is different, and past results do not guarantee future outcomes; what these numbers show is how I work.
$5,400,000Family of an elementary school child injured in a school bus accident in Chase County, Nebraska.
$932,000Jury verdict for a surviving shooting victim.Jury Verdict
$2,850,000Victim of a construction site accident.
$1,275,000Passenger injured in a single-vehicle motor vehicle accident in Douglas County, Nebraska.
$500,000Family of a special needs elementary school student who died while at school.
$800,000Family of a woman who died of alcohol intoxication while being held following a DUI at the Sarpy County Jail.
$500,000Policy limits recovery for a woman injured in a rear-end collision on Interstate 80 in Nebraska.
$571,332Jury verdict for a pedestrian struck by a piece of farm equipment while walking on a gravel road at night.Jury Verdict
$375,000Woman involved in a life insurance dispute.
$300,000Family of a pedestrian injured crossing the street in a marked crosswalk in dark pre-dawn hours.
$300,000Pedestrian who suffered injuries after colliding with a city bus.
$275,000Woman who slipped and fell on ice and snow, breaking her arm, at her apartment complex following a snowstorm.
$275,000Woman who slipped and fell in the parking lot of her apartment complex in Columbus, Nebraska, following a January 2018 snowstorm. Resolved July 17, 2023 after lengthy litigation.
$250,000Judgment for a young boy attacked by his neighbor's dogs while playing in his own front yard in Woodbury County, Iowa.
$235,000Woman involved in a motor vehicle collision in Omaha, Nebraska.
$400,000Gentleman who suffered injuries in a motor vehicle collision in Holdrege, Nebraska.
$200,000Man who injured his shoulder in a motor vehicle collision in Omaha, Nebraska.
$175,000Family of a woman who died in a train-on-vehicle collision at a train crossing.
$150,000Gentleman who suffered injuries in a motor vehicle collision.
$135,000Man who slipped and fell on ice, breaking his leg, in the parking lot of his apartment complex.
$635,000Victim of medical malpractice.
$325,000Gentleman who suffered injuries arising out of a motor vehicle accident on Interstate 680 in Omaha, Nebraska.
$285,000Woman who slipped and fell on the mailbox approach at the drive of a private residence on a country road in Washington County, Nebraska, injuring her knee and ankle.
$150,000Woman injured in a motor vehicle collision.
$125,000Individual who was injured in a car crash in Kearney, Nebraska.
$115,000Man who slipped and fell in his neighbor's driveway, breaking his leg.
$76,500Man who injured his shoulder when struck by a malfunctioning automatic door at a hotel.
$155,000Victim of a rear-end accident on the interstate in Nebraska.
$105,000Victim of a motor vehicle accident on the interstate in Oklahoma while returning home from vacation.
$100,000Minor passenger injured in a car crash in Papillion, Nebraska.
$685,000Victim of medical malpractice arising from a gastrointestinal surgery gone wrong.
$360,000Pedestrian struck by a car.
$230,345Passenger who suffered a neck injury in a low-speed, small-impact motor vehicle collision.
$201,000Victim of a motor vehicle accident causing injury to his shoulder.
$125,000Disputed liability claim for a pedestrian hit by a car on the side of a dark road at night, causing a broken leg.
$72,500Victim of a dog bite.
$105,000Woman bitten on the leg by a dog while visiting a friend's home.
$100,000Woman bitten on the side and arm by a dog.
$1,050,000Workers' compensation lump-sum settlement — after nearly $1,200,000 in expenses had already been covered and paid by the defendant employer for the employee.
$100,000Workers' compensation settlement for a woman whose foot was injured while operating a forklift.
$65,000Minor child who suffered temporary respiratory issues from mold exposure at an apartment complex.
$65,000Recovery against a big box retailer for mishandling a shopping patron incorrectly suspected of shoplifting.
How Cases Like These Are Valued
The numbers above are outcomes, not formulas. What drives any individual case is a short list: the severity and permanence of the injury, the total medical costs both past and future, the wages and earning capacity lost, how clearly liability can be proven, and — the factor people underestimate most — how much insurance coverage actually exists to pay a claim.
That last point explains several results on this list. Some are policy-limits recoveries: every dollar that existed was collected. It also explains why tracing coverage matters so much before a case is ever valued — the at-fault party's liability policy, your own uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage, other household policies, umbrella policies, and in commercial cases the far larger policies carried by trucking companies, their owners, and the brokers who hired them.
Why Some of These Numbers Are Larger Than the Injury Suggests
A $230,345 recovery for a passenger hurt in a low-speed collision surprises people, because the vehicle damage was minor. Injury severity is a medical question, not a body-shop question, and proving that distinction is ordinary work in a well-prepared case.
Conversely, the largest results here — a $5,400,000 recovery for the family of a child injured in a school bus accident, $2,850,000 for a construction site victim, $1,275,000 for an injured passenger — involved catastrophic, permanent harm where the real number was the future: lifetime medical care, lost earning capacity, and losses a family lives with for decades. Those cases are built with treating physicians, life-care planners, vocational experts and economists, because a jury cannot award what nobody proved.
What These Results Do Not Mean
They do not mean your case is worth a similar amount. Every case is different, and past results never guarantee a future outcome — that is not boilerplate, it is the honest truth about litigation. What this list does show is a consistent approach: prepare every case as though a jury will decide it, find every dollar of available coverage, price the future rather than just the present, and refuse the early offer that arrives before anyone knows what an injury will actually cost.
If you want to know what your own situation realistically supports, that conversation is free and honest, including when the honest answer is that you do not have much of a case.
Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter. The value of any case depends on its own facts, injuries, insurance coverage, and applicable law. This page is attorney advertising.
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Frank Younes
Every page on this site is written by Frank Younes, a Nebraska trial attorney with a published record of verdicts and settlements, selection to the National Trial Lawyers Top 100, and a practice that covers every county in Nebraska and Iowa. No case is handed to an associate — the lawyer you read here is the lawyer who works your case.
