Commercial Vehicle Accident

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