Verdicts & Settlements
Kathryn Bayless has achieved a number of substantial settlements and/or verdicts for her clients over the years. Because confidential settlement agreements preclude providing specific information and dollar amounts, the information provided in this website related to confidential settlements is limited accordingly.
VERDICTS AND SETTLEMENTS LISTED ARE A SAMPLE OF THE HUNDREDS OF CASES THE BAYLESS LAW FIRM HAS HANDLED. CASE RESULTS DEPEND ON A VARIETY OF FACTORS UNIQUE TO EACH CASE. PAST SUCCESSFUL RESULTS DO NOT PREDICT OR GUARANTEE FUTURE RESULTS. PERSISTENCE AND HARD WORK ARE FACTORS WHICH YOU CAN DEPEND UPON IF YOU SELECT THE BAYLESS LAW FIRM TO REPRESENT YOU.
$250,000.00 Settlement
Dental malpractice. Dentist negligently performed apicoectomy after failed root canal; injury to trigeminal nerve.
Confidential Settlement
Medical malpractice. Doctor’s failure to diagnose breast cancer resulting in death to patient.
Confidential Settlement
Medical malpractice. Doctor and hospital’s negligent treatment of diabetic patient, failure to diagnose.
$275,000.00 Settlement
Race discrimination. Local college engaged in racial and other discriminatory practices towards a male coach.
Confidential Settlement
Sex discrimination. An agent claimed that State Farm engaged in sex discrimination during her employment.
$511,630.69 Verdict
Breach of contract. A former employee brought a breach of contract action against a local hospital.
Confidential settlement
Medical negligence. Mother of two young children died as result of birth control medication prescribed negligently.
$5,350,000.00 Verdict
Sexual assault. Physician (endocrinologist) sexually assaulted a patient.
$2,222,847.87 Verdict
Medical negligence. Physician failed to timely diagnose and treat blood clots forming after casting a fractured metatarsal.
Confidential Settlement
Insurance Bad Faith. State Farm refused to pay homeowner’s insurance claim resulting from fire loss.
$300,000.00 Settlement
Disability discrimination. Local college engaged in discriminatory practices involving a mobility-impaired professor. College also agreed to make changes to campus structures to improve accessibility for those with physical disabilities.
Confidential Settlement
Products liability. A defective hood manufactured by General Motors came lose and penetrated windshield during car accident, blinding the driver.
Confidential Settlement
Race discrimination. Case settled on the eve of trial with Norfolk and Southern Railway for over seventy brakemen in race discrimination case. It was the largest known settlement at the time in West Virginia in a race discrimination case.
Confidential Settlements
Automobile accidents. Hundreds of personal injury cases involving motor vehicle accidents, several involving death claims; many involving serious injury.
Confidential settlement
Medical negligence. Patient died when physician delayed in referring patient to another facility and in failing to consult when problems developed after knee replacement surgery.
Confidential settlement
Sexual assault/harassment. Underground coal miners assaulted by co-workers who spray-painted, greased their genital areas with industrial grease guns, duct-taped the miners’ hands and ankles, suspended the miners hanging by their ankles from the mine roof and were otherwise assaulted, all with knowledge imputable to the mine owner.
Confidential settlement
Auto accident. Employee at Marcellus shale drilling site, working many hours without adequate time off or rest, fell asleep while returning to his motel and crashed into a mother and daughter who received serious personal injuries.
