$2 million dollar settlement for injuries to father caused by son
We were retained to represent an elderly gentleman who received serious injuries as a result of a collision with his son’s big-rig on Interstate 10. In our case, the father was following his son driving his son’s pick-up truck while helping his son move his furniture to his new apartment. We were able to ascertain, though our investigation, that the son, who was classified as an independent contractor working for a large trucking company was allowed to drive his truck on his own time. We found they made him pay, out of his wages, for a personal liability policy that actually had a higher limit than that carried by the large trucking company. The accident was caused, even though it was a windy day, by the son who lost control of his truck for unknown reasons and crashed into his father driving the son’s pick-up truck. Though our efforts in investigation, litigation and negotiations, we were able to obtain the full policy limit from the son’s insurance carrier.