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Download a PDF of 2010's largest verdicts.

Download a PDF of a list of lawyers who won big in 2010.

Click here to view the top defense wins of 2010.

Map – top wins by county_2010

Click here to view the judges who presided over the most plaintiff and defense wins in 2010.

Click here to view a list of the winningest plaintiff lawyers of 2010.

Click here to view the top plaintiff wins of 2010.

In 2002, jurors in Jackson County awarded $2.2 billion to a cancer patient who was given diluted chemotherapy drugs by pharmacist Robert Courtney. The jurors said they wanted to "send a message out to the world."

Big city plaintiffs lawyers often complain about traveling to rural circuit courts to try cases because of the perceived conservative nature of juries. While a number of large plaintiff awards are on this year's plaintiff lists, there are also some big rural defense wins on the list below.

If you then told them it would be an $89 million jury verdict over a wrongful death caused by a drunken driver, they might have laughed and questioned your sanity.

Auto collision lawsuits are tough enough to handle when you have a defendant to sue for negligence. But when the offending driver leaves the scene of an accident without being identified, it becomes even tougher to convince your insurer the ...