Our client was a professional truck driver, lawfully hauling his load in his own lane, when another company's truck crossed the centerline and hit him head-on.
The force of a head-on collision between two commercial vehicles is catastrophic by nature. Our client suffered multiple fractures throughout his lower body, each requiring surgery and internal hardware to repair, along with arterial damage that threatened the blood flow to his leg and skin grafts to close his wounds. He was stabilized at a regional trauma center before being flown to a St. Louis hospital for continued care.
From the outset, the defense had a problem it never solved: the dash cam footage from its own driver's truck could not be produced. Not on the device, not in the cloud, not anywhere counsel could locate it. In a case built on which vehicle crossed the centerline, the absence of that footage became its own kind of evidence.
Because our client's injuries were catastrophic and permanent, we built the case around a full lifetime valuation, documenting not just the surgeries already behind him, but the future care, lost earning capacity, and permanent physical limitations ahead of him.
The case resolved for $19,000,000, one of the largest trucking settlements in firm history.
When a trucking company can't produce its own dash cam footage, that isn't the end of a liability case, it's the beginning of a different one. Physical evidence, data, and a credible account of what happened can still carry a case the defense would rather argue in the dark.
Multiple surgeries and a long hospital stay are only the beginning of what a catastrophic injury costs. Valuing the case correctly means accounting for future care, lost earning capacity, and permanent limitations for the rest of a client's life.
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