Dump Truck’s Failure To Yield Results In $500,000 Settlement

Dump Truck’s Failure To Yield Results In $500,000 Settlement

Verdicts & Settlements

Negligence/Auto – Plaintiff’s Car Hit By Dump Truck – Failure To Yield Claimed – Splenectomy – $500,000 Settlement

Brief statement of claim: Plaintiff, age 40, was driving on the main road when a construction dump truck exited a construction site, failed to yield and hit plaintiff’s vehicle in the side.

Principal injuries (in order of severity): Splenectomy; hemorrhaging within the left kidney; comminuted humeral fracture; pelvic fracture; 4 cm laceration to the forehead.

Special damages: Medical bills of $56,000; no lost wages

Tried or settled: Settled

County where tried or settled: Pasquotank

Case name and number: Names withheld

Date concluded: January 2002

Name of judge: n/a

Amount: $500,000

Insurance carrier: Stratford Insurance Company

Expert witnesses and areas of expertise: None

Attorney for plaintiff: Danny Glover Jr. of D. Keith Teague, P.A., Elizabeth City

Other useful info: Plaintiff’s orthopedic surgeon rendered a minimal five percent permanent impairment rating on plaintiff. The plaintiff made a near complete recovery within one year of the wreck.

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