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Two young women were driving home from work together along a rural highway. It was rainy, and ahead of them, a massive tractor-trailer was approaching from the opposite direction. But that tractor-trailer was traveling near its maximum speed despite the bad weather, and when it suddenly hydroplaned, it crossed into oncoming traffic without warning. The resulting collision obliterated the young women’s SUV, killing them both instantly. The devoted husbands and school-age children they both left behind now share this terrible tragedy in common, but each survivor must now personally grapple with their own unimaginable loss: $26,000,000
Our Firm obtained a life-changing wrongful death settlement for the surviving family members of an accident victim. Although a confidentiality agreement prevents us from disclosing any details about the cause of the accident or the parties involved, we can disclose the settlement amount: $25,000,000
A young college coed was on her way back to school after a late night dinner with her mother off campus. She was pulled over on the interstate by a state trooper for a routine traffic stop. But a massive 18-wheeler, its driver either distracted or asleep, crossed multiple lanes of an otherwise clear highway and careened onto the shoulder at high speed, shattering the vehicle and setting it on fire. Sadly the student burned to death in the inferno: $16,000,000
A wife and mother stuck in traffic on the interstate was crushed to death when a tractor-trailer approaching from behind her failed to slow down for other vehicles and caused a multi-car pileup. The tractor-trailer’s inexperienced driver was just completing his shift at the time of the wreck, and tested positive for illegal drugs immediately after it: $15,000,000
A tractor-trailer driver overshot his destination as he attempted to complete his delivery and decided to put his vehicle in reverse instead of circling around or completing a U-turn. Tragically, he drifted across the center lane and into oncoming traffic, where an oncoming husband and father could not take evasive action in time and suffered fatal injuries: $10,900,000
A family road-trip turned to tragedy when a tractor-trailer rear-ended a mother’s SUV with devastating force on the interstate. The father, driving ahead of his family in a separate vehicle, stopped and returned to the scene of the crash, only to find any parent’s worst nightmare: his three children all badly injured in the back seat, one of them—not even a year old—fatally: $10,800,000
A young Marine, out celebrating a friend’s discharge from the military, was the front passenger in a car when his driver started speeding and caused a serious wreck. The driver’s airbag deployed, but the Marine’s airbag did not – he suffered massive brain trauma as a result that left him in a coma for weeks and destroyed six months of his memory. He had to relearn how to speak, walk, and care for himself through months of grueling therapy and will suffer cognitive impairment for the rest of his life: $9,500,000
Car trouble turned into tragedy for a mom and daughter when they stalled in the middle of the roadway. Though they’d turned on their hazard lights, a heavy box truck struck them from behind at highway speeds, demolished their vehicle, and sadly killed the young mother. The young girl suffered serious injuries and needed emergency surgery: $9,150,000
A pickup truck struck our client’s vehicle from behind while travelling 70 miles per hour and nearly killed him—he sustained a shattered spine, multiple rib fractures, and an aortic injury he only survived due to immediate first aid. Eyewitnesses described the pickup truck driver as weaving through traffic while on his phone shortly before the wreck, and he quit his job afterward to avoid taking a drug test. After our client underwent a reconstructive spinal surgery with embedded hardware we obtained a jury verdict to vindicate him: $5,908,403
A young man working for a furniture delivery company boarded his assigned van one morning, never imagining it would be for the last time in full health. But his van’s driver decided to stream a cell phone video on the way to their delivery, lost control of the van, and veered off the highway, hitting a road sign at high speed. Our young client awoke from a coma two weeks later with an amputated right arm, punctured lung, and a traumatic brain injury: $5,500,000
A young industrial worker was performing maintenance on a natural gas pipeline, replacing valves for the pipeline operator. It was the end of a long day, but the beginning of an even longer ordeal. The pipeline operator failed to properly vent the natural gas before work began, causing the pipe to explode without warning. Our client suffered serious burns to his face, head, arms, and upper body that required reconstructive surgery: $5,393,500
When trucking companies put profits over safety, the most vulnerable people suffer. One 18-wheeler driver, knowingly overworked by his employer despite the regulatory limits on his hours of service, was driving while fatigued and blew through a red light at an intersection, broadsiding an 83-year-old grandmother’s car at high speed. She suffered massive internal injuries and spent her last year fighting for her life on a ventilator in an acute care facility, unable to even speak, before finally succumbing to her injuries. $4,850,000
Our client slowed down to turn from the highway onto a county road, but the 18-wheeler driver behind her failed to do likewise. Instead, he struck our client’s car so hard that he pushed her into oncoming traffic, where she was hit yet again by other vehicles. She suffered a broken back, broken clavicle, and numerous other fractured bones that took months to heal, and she will carry the pins and other hardware from her reconstructive surgery inside her forever: $4,000,000
Our young client was working at a chemical blending facility when one of his co-workers inadvertently ignited sodium chloride powder that had fallen on the floor. The resulting explosion and fire destroyed the building and left our client with severe, excruciating burns over a third of his body: his hands, arms, shoulders, and back. His injuries took months to heal and left permanent scars, even after multiple skin grafts and laser surgery, and his grip strength and dexterity were permanently impaired: $3,500,000
A Good Samaritan saw two vehicles disabled from a prior wreck on the interstate and pulled over to help them late one night. But an 18-wheeler traveling a few minutes behind them was less attentive and collided with the prior wreck at high speed, crushing the Good Samaritan to death. The 18-wheeler company tried to blame the Good Samaritan for his own death, but his family – a beloved wife, and four adult children – saw justice done at trial: $3,500,000
Our client started to cross the interstate access road at an intersection with a green walk sign, but an 18-wheeler on the access road ignored him, made a tight right turn, and ran him down. He suffered massive trauma to his right leg, which became infected and nearly resulted in its amputation. But even after the 18-wheeler company sent a representative to the hospital to try and trick our client into releasing his claims, we secured a full recovery: $3,000,000
A heavy truck disabled on the shoulder of a two-lane road failed to put out its warning triangle reflectors to warn approaching vehicles. As a result, when our client approached the area on his motorcycle and was cut off by another truck entering his lane without warning, he did not see the truck on the shoulder when he took evasive action until it was too late. The resulting collision inflicted massive injuries: a broken right leg (femur and ankle), broken right arm, broken back and more: $3,000,000
An 18-wheeler driver tragically disregarded a stop sign and entered an intersection without the right-of-way, broadsiding our client’s vehicle and causing a terrible, fatal wreck that injured or killed multiple passengers. Our client was one of the survivors, but still suffered massive injuries: a fractured hip, spleen laceration, and fractured orbital socket, along with deep contusions and cuts to his chest and arm. Reconstructive surgery proved necessary to repair his fractured hip, just one of many steps in his long and painful recovery. $2,750,000
As our client rode along a clear country road in a work truck, an 18-wheeler approaching from the opposite direction made a sudden left turn in front of him. Our client’s driver slammed on his brakes, but had no room to stop — the resulting collision shattered our client’s ribs, skull, and spine, leaving him confined to a wheelchair as a quadriplegic for the rest of his life. The 18-wheeler lacked adequate insurance, but we obtained every dime available under the policy: $2,570,000
As our client rode along a clear country road in a work truck, an 18-wheeler approaching from the opposite direction As our client drove east along a rural county road, another driver approaching from the opposite direction was hurtling toward him, well in excess of the speed limit. This other driver drifted into the shoulder, over-corrected to the left, and entered our client’s lane, where he caused a collision despite our client’s timely evasive action. The resulting wreck inflicted massive blunt force trauma on our client, who tragically passed away at the scene, leaving behind multiple adult and minor children: $2,525,000
A westbound tractor-trailer crossed the grassy median to his left, and careened into the eastbound lanes of an interstate. Eastbound, a young father with his 14-year-old son in the backseat took desperate evasive action but could not avoid a massive wreck. The collision obliterated the small car, killing both the father and the son. The tractor-trailer’s driver claimed he’d had a medical emergency, but it turned out he was likely watching a video instead: $2,500,000
A tractor-trailer driver, lost and distracted by his radio, turned in front of an oncoming car without warning and caused a massive collision. The car’s driver, a young mother, sustained seven rib fractures and a shattered left leg that took multiple surgeries to reassemble, permanently impairing her mobility. But her three children in the car also suffered injuries, and one of them was grievously hurt; her torn intestines and displaced shoulder fracture kept her hospitalized for 12 days and in rehab for months. $2,500,000
Our client stopped for traffic on a crowded highway but the vehicle behind her did not. Instead, it rear-ended her with terrible force, throwing her forward into a concrete barrier and causing life-threatening injuries to her brain and back: an epidural hemorrhage, concussion, and an unstable burst fracture to her thoracic spine. A fusion surgery stabilized her back but left her with permanent hardware in her spine, limited mobility, and ongoing pain. She also suffered serious psychological trauma, resulting in flashbacks and difficulty sleeping: $2,250,000
An oncoming vehicle’s failure to yield at an intersection where our client had a green light resulted in a massive collision that shattered his right foot and spine in multiple places. He was literally screaming in agony as EMS pulled him from his vehicle. Weeks in the hospital and months recuperating at home were necessary before a surgeon could perform a complex spinal fusion. He has had to relearn to walk, suffers from regular nightmares and anxiety fits, and lives in daily pain: $2,250,000
A young man leaving work on his motorcycle was suddenly cut-off by an oncoming tanker truck as it made a left turn in front of him without warning. He slammed on his brakes but the truck was too close — he suffered fatal injuries upon impact. His devoted wife, widowed at age 22, was left to care for their nine-month old daughter and was pregnant with their second child, a young boy who was ultimately born with a congenital heart defect and who will never meet his father: $2,100,000
Our client responsibly slowed for traffic on the highway but the truck behind him did not. Instead, it rear-ended him with tremendous force, driving him into the vehicle ahead of them and causing a second serious collision. Our client suffered multiple disc herniations in his spine, from his neck to his lower back, and though he tried to work through the pain for months, ultimately agreed to corrective back surgery. Tragically, he died from complications during that procedure, which he would not have needed but-for this wreck: $2,030,000
A tractor-trailer driving along the interstate failed to slow for rainy conditions, hydroplaned on the wet road, and jack-knifed, blocking the westbound lanes. The driver of a sedan following behind this truck failed to stop in time and submarined under the trailer, inflicting life-changing injuries on the young woman in his front passenger seat. Our client’s catastrophic injuries included permanent brain damage that left her confined to a wheelchair and in need of physical and cognitive therapy for the rest of her life: $2,000,000
A rear-end collision on a rainy day left our young client with herniated discs in her neck and lower back. After months of conservative therapy failed, she underwent a spinal fusion to address her lower back pain, but complications from that procedure ultimately required a second spinal surgery. She was facing six-figure medical bills and a lifetime of medical complications while she was still in her 20s, but we recovered enough money to give her a fresh start: $1,850,000
Shortly before 11:00 p.m., a tractor-trailer pulled out of an industrial park and began a ponderous right turn, blocking the dark road in front of two teenagers approaching in a pickup truck. The driver of the pickup was speeding, failed to hit his brakes in time, and submarined his truck under the trailer. His front seat passenger, a young woman, sustained a life-changing traumatic brain injury on impact. Months of rehabilitation followed in which our client had to relearn how to walk, speak, and care for herself again: $1,800,000
A 70-year-old man waiting at a red light entered the intersection after his light turned green. Suddenly and without warning, he was blindsided on the driver’s side by an 18-wheeler traveling nearly 50 miles an hour. The impact shattered all of our client’s ribs and flattened his chest cavity, leaving him trapped in his mangled vehicle. Emergency personnel who extracted him found hemorrhaging in his brain, brain stem, and chest, still desperately struggling for breath. Despite frantic medical interventions, he ultimately drowned to death in his own blood: $1,750,000
Texting and driving is a bad combination. Sleeping while driving is worse. The 18-wheeler driver who rear-ended our client committed one of these sins, and as a result, our client woke up in a helicopter, on his way to the nearest trauma center for emergency treatment for two massive head lacerations, a concussion, and a serious back injury that eventually required surgery. Dizziness, chronic headaches, and upper back pain are just a few of the grave symptoms he continued to suffer for months: $1,750,000
At an indoor car auction filled with wandering pedestrians and slowly creeping vehicles, our client innocently stepped in front of a pickup truck whose driver hit the gas instead. The truck jerked forward without warning, agonizingly pinning our client’s left leg against another vehicle and shattering it near the knee. He required two major reconstructive surgeries, over a week of hospitalization, and months of rehabilitation before he could even walk with a cane again. He faces permanent impairment and disfigurement and will never be the same: $1,700,000
Our client was travelling on the interstate when he encountered rush hour traffic. Both he and the vehicles around him slowed down, but behind them, the driver of an 18-wheeler did not — he was too busy texting on his phone. The resulting multi-car pileup inflicted life-changing injuries on our client, who’d initially thought he’d escaped with bruising and shoulder pain. But follow-up treatment revealed a serious spinal injury, and he ultimately needed a cervical fusion to stabilize the bones in his neck, permanently sacrificing his flexibility for pain relief: $1,625,000
A heavy truck failed to control its speed on the interstate and set off a multi-car pileup, tangling together a half-dozen vehicles in a knotted mess. Trapped in the middle of it was our innocent client, who woke up in a hospital fighting for her life. She had suffered massive injuries – fractured vertebrae and ribs, a torn aorta, and a partially collapsed lung – that ultimately kept her in the hospital for a month and required multiple surgeries to repair. She remains physically debilitated and disfigured to this day: $1,250,000
An unlicensed driver borrowed his employer’s sports car and took his three young daughters for a joyride that ended in disaster. Speeding, he lost control of the car on wet pavement and skidded off the road, where the vehicle rolled over multiple times and caught fire. Two of the daughters suffered broken arms and bruises while the third nearly died — a punctured liver, intestinal bleeding, and jaw and rib fractures led to traumatic shock that caused respiratory failure: $1,250,000
Our 73-year-old client slowed his pickup to a stop for traffic on the interstate, never dreaming he had just seconds to live. But behind him, a truck was recklessly screaming toward him at 81 miles per hour. Its driver braked just a half-second before impact. The speed limit was 65. The resulting collision occurred with such force that it compressed the bed of our client’s pickup flat into the truck’s cab, killing him instantly. He left behind a wife, children, and grandchildren that never got to say goodbye: $1,250,000
The driver of a heavy truck parked on an access road’s shoulder swung back onto the road and crossed the freeway’s exit ramp, heading for the on-ramp. But he failed to confirm his path was clear first and turned directly in front of our client as she exited the freeway. The resulting wreck shattered her sternum, caused numerous spinal strains, and inflicted other grave injuries. She required fifteen screws in her chest, spent nearly a week in the hospital, and lost months from work recovering from follow-up surgeries: $1,200,000
An 18-wheeler with a heavy load of industrial equipment changed lanes on the interstate without checking its blind-spot and struck the small sedan driving next to it. The sedan’s passenger suffered serious neck and shoulder injuries in the collision that caused her debilitating pain and ultimately needed no fewer than four spinal surgeries to alleviate, including a cervical fusion and an implanted spinal cord stimulator. She lost months of work during her long and arduous recovery: $1,200,000
A tractor-trailer driver missed his exit and tried to turn around in a residential neighborhood while distracted on his cell phone. Oblivious to his surroundings, his sudden U-turn blocked oncoming traffic, giving our oncoming client no room to safely stop. The resulting collision destroyed her vehicle and inflicted terrible injuries on her: rib fractures, spinal herniations, lung contusions, spleen lacerations, and a trauma-induced stroke. A series of hospitalizations followed over the next five months, and the neurological complications from her traumatic brain injury remain unresolved: $1,200,000
Our client was stopped at a red light, patiently waiting for it to turn green, when a heavy truck approaching from behind her failed to slow down and rear-ended her vehicle with massive force. Our client’s car was thrown forward into the intersection, where it hit a traffic light pole. She suffered a serious concussion, and ultimately, a life-changing traumatic brain injury that has left her with a permanently reduced attention span, sluggish reasoning skills, and persistent migraine headaches: $1,187,500
A minivan filled with six young children was driving down the freeway when the driver of a tractor-trailer headed the opposite way dropped his thermos, reached down to get it while travelling 70 miles per hour, and lost control of his truck. The tractor-trailer careened across the grassy median and collided with the minivan with explosive force, gravely injuring four of the six children. Their injuries included spinal fractures, serious head trauma, and internal abdominal injuries; two of them were confined to full-torso braces for over a year: $1,157,000
A heavy 18-wheeler slowly entered the freeway and moved into the main lanes without accelerating up to highway speeds. Behind it, a work truck with our client riding in the front seat was rapidly approaching. Our client’s driver was distracted by his cell phone and failed to take evasive action until he was almost on top of the 18-wheeler. Our client suffered massive blunt force trauma in the ensuing wreck to his chest, abdomen, pelvis, and right leg and tragically bled to death before emergency personnel could arrive: $1,151,189
A pickup truck driver failed to properly secure the flatbed trailer he was hauling, allowing the trailer to detach after the truck was underway and careen into oncoming traffic where it sheered our client’s oncoming vehicle in half. Our client narrowly escaped with his life but sustained devastating injuries: a ruptured spleen and left kidney (which both had to be removed), a fractured pelvis and rib cage, and a punctured lung. He spent months in a trauma center recovering before learning to walk again: $1,110,000
A tractor-trailer driver with a history of carelessness ignored road warning signs and drove under a freeway overpass that was too low for his load, knocking a heavy steel beam off his truck. The beam struck our client’s car as he drove behind the trailer, flipping his vehicle and sending it careening into another nearby truck. He suffered a serious and painful neck injury that ultimately required him a spinal fusion to correct, permanently sacrificing his ability to turn his neck in order to obtain pain relief: $1,100,000
A tractor-trailer attempted a U-turn on a dark rural highway, after sunset, with no working lights and damaged reflector tape on its trailer. Two men in a work truck encountered the trailer blocking their path and could not stop in time and collided with the trailer. A second tractor-trailer then also collided with this first wreck. The two men suffered serious injuries: broken arms and legs that required reconstructive surgery with implanted hardware, and serious lacerations that required staples to close: $1,100,000
A tractor-trailer driver, trying to cross a divided highway in the predawn hours of a chilly winter day, got stuck on ice in the median and stalled out, completely blocked the northbound lanes with his trailer. He placed no warning triangles or flares, and our northbound client thus encountered a huge barrier across the road with no prior warning when he approached the scene. The resulting crash caused serious internal injuries – a concussion, four fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and lacerated liver – that required months of rehab: $1,025,000
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