Nguyen v. TIAG

Case names

The case appears under several names. Flanagan Law and its press releases call it Nguyen v. TIAG, using the initials of the carrier, Transportation Inc. Agent Group Inc. TopVerdict.com lists it as Nguyen v. Transp. Inc. Agent Grp. Inc. VerdictSearch uses the court caption, Huynh v. Transportation Inc Agent Group Inc., and Bondurant Mixson & Elmore's profile of co-counsel Michael B. Terry also refers to it as Huynh v. Transportation Inc. Agent Group.^{[1][2][7][5][11]}

The plaintiff named in the caption is Thuy Hang Thi Huynh, who sued on her own behalf and as administrator of Tony Nguyen's estate. The defendant named on the phase two verdict form is the carrier alone.^[3]

See: Phase two verdict form (PDF) (assets.alm.com)

The crash as the firm describes it

According to the firm's case study, Nguyen was driving on Interstate 20 before dawn on a rainy morning when another driver lost control, struck his car and knocked it across the highway into the median wall, then left his own car and fled the scene. A tractor-trailer traveling in the left lane then hit Nguyen's disabled car at highway speed. The firm says the truck was missing its right windshield wiper, that the driver said his onboard camera was unplugged, and that the physical evidence showed he did not brake until about the moment of impact.^[1]

See: Firm case study on the Nguyen verdict

The firm's July 2026 press release describes the crash as a head-on collision, which differs from the case study's account of a truck striking a disabled car. The Daily Report described it as a fatal crash in Fulton County.^[2][1][6]

Lost evidence

The second phase of the trial concerned what happened to the evidence after the crash. The firm's case study says the tractor-trailer was scrapped before the family's experts could inspect it, and that people working with the defense removed the airbag control module from Nguyen's car at a storage lot and that it was never recovered. It says the court then issued a 27-page order on spoliation, finding that the company had a duty to preserve the truck, its dash camera data, the driver's hours of service logbooks and the airbag control module, and that it failed to do so.^[1]

The firm's July 2026 release gives a similar account of a court order on the missing evidence. The order itself was not among the documents checked for this entry. The Daily Report reported that the second phase hit the defendant with punitive damages for allegedly destroying critical evidence after the crash.^[2][6]

Trial and verdict

The case was tried in two phases. In the first, the jury awarded $66.25 million in compensatory damages, which the firm says consisted of $60 million for the full value of Nguyen's life and $6.25 million for his estate's claim for pain and suffering.^[6][1][2]

The phase two verdict form is dated March 20, 2025, the day it was filed. It found the plaintiff entitled to $31,500,000 in attorneys' fees and $68,718.72 in expenses of litigation, and imposed $250,000 in punitive damages on the carrier. The form told the jury that it could not award fees or expenses of litigation on the punitive damages.^[3]

See: Phase two verdict form (PDF) (assets.alm.com)

TopVerdict.com and VerdictSearch both list the verdict at $98,068,719, which is the phase one award plus the three phase two amounts, rounded to the nearest dollar. The firm describes the verdict as $99.9 million, and one entry on its results page gives $99,941,150.23. The sources checked do not explain the difference between the firm's figures and the listed total. The Daily Report's headline called it a verdict of nearly $100 million.^{[7][5][1][12][6]}

Counsel

TopVerdict.com lists five lawyers from four firms for the plaintiff: Brendan Flanagan and Morgan E. Lyndall of Flanagan Law, Ben C. Brodhead II of Brodhead Law, Alex H.Q. Nguyen of 770GoodLaw and Michael B. Terry of Bondurant Mixson & Elmore. The Daily Report pictured Flanagan, Brodhead, Alex Nguyen and Terry with its story and quoted Brodhead calling the defendants' conduct the most egregious he had seen in his career.^[7][6]

See: Morgan E. Lyndall; Daily Report article (www.law.com)

Published sources describe Brendan Flanagan as having served on the plaintiff's trial team. The firm's July 2026 release says the firm served on that team, and Flanagan's Justia biography says he did. Bondurant Mixson & Elmore describes Terry as part of the trial team. Some later firm materials describe Flanagan's role in broader terms. This entry uses the trial team description.^{[2][10][11][13][12]}

See: Brendan C. Flanagan

Appeals

The verdict is not final. The docket of the Court of Appeals of Georgia shows two related appeals, both docketed on September 3, 2026: A27A0339, titled Transportation Inc. Agent Group, Inc. v. Huynh et al., and A27A0340, titled Huynh et al. v. Transportation Inc. Agent Group, Inc.^[8][9]

See: Docket A27A0339 (www.gaappeals.gov); Docket A27A0340 (www.gaappeals.gov)

When the dockets were checked on October 16, 2026, both showed the status Case Pending-Briefs Filed, and the court had not decided either appeal. What amount, if any, will ultimately be paid on the verdict is not known.^[8][9]

Verdict lists and coverage

TopVerdict.com placed the verdict ninth on its list of the ten largest motor vehicle accident verdicts in the United States in 2025, fourteenth among the twenty largest wrongful death verdicts, and fifty-ninth among the hundred largest verdicts of any kind. VerdictSearch's list of the largest Georgia jury verdicts of 2025 reported to it places the case third.^{[7][14][15][5]}

See: Recognition

The Daily Report covered the verdict on March 26, 2025. The firm announced it in a press release on July 6, 2026, and a copy of that release appears in the USA TODAY Network's paid press release section.^[6][2][16]

See: Media and press; Published case results

Related entries

• Published case results Verdicts, settlements and an appellate decision that Flanagan Law, P.C. publishes on its website and in lawyer profiles, with court records and news reports where they exist.
• Brendan C. Flanagan Georgia personal injury lawyer who founded Flanagan Law, P.C. in 2015 and is its founder and principal attorney.
• Morgan E. Lyndall Personal injury attorney at Flanagan Law, P.C., who earlier handled insurance coverage and liability defense work at an Atlanta defense firm.
• Recognition Lawyer and verdict lists that name Flanagan Law, P.C. or its attorneys, including Super Lawyers Rising Stars selections and 2025 TopVerdict.com and VerdictSearch lists.
• Media and press Press releases issued by Flanagan Law, P.C. in 2026, legal news coverage of its cases, and an article written by two of its paralegals.
• Practice areas The eleven kinds of personal injury and wrongful death cases that Flanagan Law, P.C. lists on its website, in the three groups the firm uses.