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In vehicle accidents, liability
for injuries to a driver, passenger or pedestrian is
established by expertly examining every detail involved
in the accident.
Here are four recent cases that underscore
Steinbrecehr and Associates' competence in the area
of vehicle accident injury; Quinnones v. Federal
Armored Express, Winkler v. Garrett, Ehlers v. Target
Chemical Co. and Esterhammer v. Consolidated
Seed & Pet. Inc.
In the first vehicle
accident case, Quinnones v. Federal Armored
Express, our client was driving
on the freeway going to work when an armored vehicle lost
control and ended up on top of our client's vehicle. The
driver of the armored car did not possess a commercial
truck driver's license, nor did he receive proper truck
driver training. The armored car company had been involved
in over 500 accidents the previous year. Despite its track
record, it allowed an unlicensed, untrained and unsupervised
driver to drive its armored vehicle during rain and darkness.
Ed Steinbrecher proved the driver was traveling too fast
for wet conditions and lost control of the vehicle, causing
severe brain damage to our client. This case settled before
the jury trial for $12,000,000, one of the largest
personal injury settlements in the state of California.
In
the second vehicle accident
case, Winkler
v. Garrett, our client was a passenger in a Porsche
driven by Leif Garrett which left the freeway and rolled
over. The driver passed out while driving the Porsche
after several days of heavy partying. The plaintiff
had also been partying and was asleep at the time of
the accident. The plaintiff was paralyzed from the waist
down. Following a jury trial the jury determined liability
in favor of the our client and awarded $4,300,000
for
this motor vehicle accident.
The third accident case, Ehlers v.
Target Chemical Co., our client, age 18, was riding
his motorcycle when a large truck operated by Target
Chemical Company made a left turn in front of the motorcycle.
The motorcyclist had to lay his motorcycle down in an
attempt to avoid the truck. The motorcyclist sustained
a severe leg injury, requiring numerous surgeries. This
case settled for $1,100,000.
In the fourth vehicle accident case, Esterhammer
v. Consolidated Seed & Pet. Inc., our client was
driving a motor scooter, which moved to the right of
a large truck that had been stopped at a red light at
an intersection. When the light turned green, the large
truck made a right turn, knocking him off the motor
scooter onto the sidewalk. The rear wheels of the truck
ran over the curb and sidewalk and across his pelvis
causing fractures and a urethra injury. The truck driver
claimed that he had his right turn signal on. Neither
the motor scooter driver nor two witnesses saw any turn
signal. The vehicle accident lawsuit case settled for
$1,000,000 the second day of the trial.
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