Case results
Twenty-four resolved matters, and what actually moved the number in each one.
What they add up to
- $43.49M
- Recovered, disclosed matters
- 20
- Results with a figure
- 4
- Confidential, not in the total
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case is different, and the value of any case depends on facts that are specific to it.
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$8.4M
Settlement · 2024
Tractor-trailer underride collision
Truck accidents
A regional carrier's trailer was stopped across two lanes of a dark state route with no reflective tape on the side rail. Our client, driving home from a second shift, went underneath it.
The carrier's insurer opened at a figure that would not have covered the first year of care. We pulled the driver's logs, the maintenance file and the inspection history, and found the trailer had failed a lighting check eleven weeks earlier with no repair recorded. The case resolved before depositions closed.
$6.25M
Settlement · 2023
Fatal highway collision, commercial vehicle
Wrongful death
A work van crossed the center line on a two-lane road at dusk and struck a family car head-on. The driver of the van had been on the road for eleven hours across two employers.
The employer's position was that the driver was an independent contractor and off duty at the time. Payroll records and the dispatch app both showed otherwise, and the second employer's policy came into the case once we established the sequence of jobs that day. Both carriers contributed.
$4.75M
Verdict · 2023
Traumatic brain injury, rear-end collision
Catastrophic injury & TBI
A stopped vehicle was struck from behind at highway speed. Our client walked away from the scene, declined transport, and could not hold down her job four months later.
The defense theme was that the scans were clean, and they were. We tried the case on neuropsychological testing and on the testimony of the people who had worked alongside her for nine years — her supervisor described the difference in two sentences that did more than any of the imaging. The jury returned more than the last offer by a wide margin.
$3.9M
Settlement · 2022
Fatal intersection collision
Wrongful death
A driver ran a signal at an intersection where the phasing had been altered three months earlier and struck a car making a permitted turn. Our client's husband died at the scene.
Liability looked contested until we obtained the signal timing records and the maintenance history from the operating authority. The change had removed a protected phase without the corresponding signage. That reframed the case, and the driver's insurer tendered its limits with an excess layer following.
$3.1M
Settlement · 2024
Rear-end collision, fatigued commercial driver
Truck accidents
A tractor-trailer failed to slow for stopped traffic and struck three vehicles. Our client was in the second one.
The paper logs were clean. The electronic logging data was not, and neither were the fuel receipts, which put the driver several hundred miles from where the log said he had been resting. The falsification, rather than the collision itself, is what moved the number.
$$$
Confidential settlement · 2024
Fatal workplace vehicle incident
Wrongful death
A reversing vehicle on a working site struck a pedestrian worker in a blind zone that a required spotter should have covered. The role had been left unfilled for most of that shift.
The site's own daily safety sheets recorded the position as staffed. The subcontractor's timekeeping records showed the person clocked out two hours before the incident, and the discrepancy carried the case. The terms of the resolution are confidential.
$2.45M
Verdict · 2022
Left-turn collision, rider seriously injured
Motorcycle accidents
A car turned left across our client's path at an intersection with clear sight lines in both directions. The driver's account, recorded at the scene, was that the motorcycle came out of nowhere and must have been doing eighty.
Reconstruction from the crush profile and the scene measurements put the rider close to the posted limit. We put the reconstruction in front of the jury before the defense had finished making the speed argument, and the verdict came back above what had been offered at mediation.
$2.2M
Settlement · 2025
Spinal cord injury, multi-vehicle collision
Catastrophic injury & TBI
A chain-reaction collision on an interstate ramp left our client with an incomplete spinal cord injury and partial use of his hands.
The primary policy was exhausted within weeks. The case turned on finding the excess layer above it, which was not disclosed until we established that the at-fault vehicle was leased to a business rather than owned personally. A life care plan built while he was still in inpatient rehabilitation, rather than assembled a year later, is what the excess carrier actually negotiated against.
$1.85M
Settlement · 2023
Two-vehicle collision, cervical fusion
Car accidents
A driver ran a stop sign on a residential connector and struck our client's car on the driver's side. She was treated and released the same evening and underwent a two-level cervical fusion fourteen months later.
The insurer's position was that the fusion was degenerative and unrelated. Prior imaging from an unrelated visit four years earlier showed the same discs without the findings, and the comparison closed the causation argument that the whole defense rested on.
$1.6M
Settlement · 2023
Pressure injury and sepsis in a skilled nursing facility
Nursing home neglect
A resident admitted after a hip fracture developed a pressure injury that progressed to the bone over nine weeks. The chart recorded turning and repositioning every two hours throughout.
The staffing records for the same nine weeks showed the unit running below the level the facility's own care plan required on most shifts. Set against a turning schedule that was documented as perfect, the arithmetic was the case.
$1.45M
Verdict · 2021
Fall from an unsecured loading platform
Premises liability
A delivery driver stepped onto a platform whose edge protection had been removed for a repair three weeks earlier and not reinstated. He fell roughly nine feet.
The defense was that the missing rail was open and obvious. Two prior work orders on the same rail, and an internal email asking when it would be back, established that the condition was known and unresolved rather than transient. The jury apportioned a share of fault to our client and still returned well above the offer.
$$$
Confidential settlement · 2023
Passenger injured during an active trip
Rideshare accidents
Our client was a passenger when the vehicle she was riding in was struck at an intersection. Both insurers initially took the position that the driver had not yet accepted the trip.
The platform's own trip record, obtained through formal process, put acceptance eleven minutes before impact and the passenger in the vehicle for eight of them. That single document moved the claim from a contingent coverage tier into the high-limit commercial one. The terms are confidential.
$1.25M
Settlement · 2024
Rear-end collision, shoulder reconstruction
Car accidents
A driver looking at a phone struck our client's stopped vehicle at around forty miles an hour. The rotator cuff repair that followed did not hold and was revised the next year.
The at-fault policy was modest. The recovery came mostly from underinsured motorist coverage our client did not know she had, on a policy belonging to a relative in the same household.
$1.1M
Settlement · 2022
Pedestrian struck in a marked crossing
Pedestrian & bicycle
Our client was struck in a marked crossing by a driver making a right turn on red. The crash report recorded her as crossing against the signal, taken from the only account available at the scene.
Video from a business on the corner, requested on the fourth day and preserved with a week to spare on its retention cycle, showed a walk signal. The report was never corrected; it simply stopped mattering.
$975,000
Settlement · 2021
Cargo shift causing loss of control
Truck accidents
An improperly secured load shifted on a curve and the trailer left its lane, striking our client's vehicle on the shoulder.
The carrier pointed at the shipper, the shipper pointed at the carrier, and both pointed at the driver. The loading photographs taken at origin — which existed only because the shipper's own quality process required them — settled who had secured what, and the two carriers apportioned between themselves.
$850,000
Verdict · 2021
Sideswipe collision, disputed liability
Car accidents
Two vehicles made contact during a merge and both drivers said the other had crossed the line. There were no independent witnesses and no video.
The paint transfer and the direction of the scrape on both vehicles answered it, which is why the vehicles were inspected before either was repaired. The case was tried because the insurer would not move off a fifty-fifty position; the jury did not split it.
$780,000
Settlement · 2024
Rider struck by a vehicle changing lanes
Motorcycle accidents
A driver changed lanes into our client's motorcycle on a divided arterial. The insurer's first theory was lane-splitting, which is not what happened and would not have been legal.
The vehicle's own forward-facing camera, which the driver had installed himself and forgotten about, showed the maneuver. We asked for it in the first preservation letter, before anyone had decided whether it helped us.
$$$
Confidential settlement · 2022
Fall on an unmarked wet surface in a retail space
Premises liability
Our client fell on a wet floor in a retail aisle where a refrigeration unit had been leaking intermittently for some weeks.
The store's sweep log showed inspections every thirty minutes, initialled. The employee whose initials appeared on three of them had not worked that day, which was established from the same payroll system the store relied on for the log. The terms of the resolution are confidential.
$650,000
Settlement · 2025
Collision while the driver was en route to a pickup
Rideshare accidents
Our client's vehicle was struck by a rideshare driver who had accepted a request and was two minutes from the pickup point.
The driver's personal insurer denied on the commercial-use exclusion and the platform's carrier initially placed him in the waiting tier. Establishing acceptance rather than availability is what moved the applicable limits, and it took a formal request to the platform to do it.
$610,000
Settlement · 2023
Cyclist struck by a turning vehicle
Pedestrian & bicycle
A cyclist in a marked bicycle lane was struck by a vehicle turning across the lane into a parking lot entrance.
The driver carried minimum limits and the hospital bill alone exceeded them within the first week. The recovery came from a commercial policy behind the vehicle, which surfaced only because we asked what the driver had been doing at the time rather than accepting the limits tender that was offered in month two.
$525,000
Settlement · 2022
Low-speed collision, aggravation of a prior injury
Car accidents
A low-speed rear impact in stop-and-go traffic aggravated a lumbar condition our client had been managing without treatment for six years.
The insurer's entire case was the prior condition and the minimal property damage. Six years of records with no treatment in them, followed by a documented course of care beginning four days after the collision, is what carried the aggravation argument.
$475,000
Settlement · 2021
Unwitnessed fall with fracture in an assisted living facility
Nursing home neglect
A resident assessed as a high fall risk was found on the floor of her room with a fractured hip. The incident report described the fall as unwitnessed and unavoidable.
Her care plan called for a bed alarm and hourly checks. The maintenance log showed the alarm had been reported non-functional twice in the preceding month with no repair recorded, and the check sheet for that night had been completed in a single hand.
$$$
Confidential settlement · 2025
Collision involving a government-owned vehicle
Car accidents
Our client was struck by a vehicle owned by a public entity. The claim ran on a notice track quite different from an ordinary claim against a private driver, with its own requirements and its own consequences for getting them wrong.
Identifying which entity actually owned and operated the vehicle — which was not the one named on the crash report — was the whole of the early work. The terms of the resolution are confidential.
$325,000
Judgment · 2020
Collision with an uninsured driver
Car accidents
An uninsured driver ran a red light and struck our client's vehicle. There was no liability policy to claim against and the driver had no assets worth pursuing.
The recovery came entirely from our client's own uninsured motorist coverage, which required suing the driver, obtaining a judgment, and then pursuing the carrier on the coverage. The client had been told by two other firms that there was nothing to do.
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