Greene v Driz ($72.5M damages) Intentional torts of assault and battery. Massive personal injury award

A brother and sister intervene when a group of four men beat a photographer. The group of men, successful pizza store owners, turns on the Good Samaritans, who are themselves beaten past unconsciousness and suffer multiple fractures, mild brain injury and PTSD. A jury awards them $72.5M. The plaintiffs final settlement offer had been $5M before trial.

The case involves the intentional torts of assault and battery, and IIED.