Attorney Charlie Steele, Jonathan Steele and Justin Steele recently settled a personal injury case involving a seriously injured client who lost his sight in one eye due to a truck colliding with low overhanging wires. The Firm sued the trucking company and the communications provider that owned and maintained the lowest hanging wire on a pole that broke away careening across a street and striking our client in the head. The truck driver hurried out of a congested urban area, not waiting for his prearranged police escort. He did not look for low hanging wires as he existed town. The pole that broke was leaning, causing the wires on it to sag. The communications company did not guy the low hanging wires, the result being that the lowest wires, attached to an aged pole, were two feet below the legal limit of height for wires hanging over a street surface. The theme of our case against the communications company became poles like people have to have good posture. The defendants denied liability for several years, which justly frustrated our client. The case became more than the compensation for an injury. The case was our clients personal journey to right a wrong. Although our client will never regain his eyesight in his left eye, he was compensated by both defendants for his injury in a settlement agreement. The case brought an emotional closure to our client. Our client can now can move forward with his life, knowing he just didnt give up and permit the defendants to escape their responsibility for injuring an innocent pedestrian. Obtaining just compensation in this case took the collaborative effort of our attorneys and clients. Obtaining settlement patience to await the unfolding of the facts of the case against the backdrop of being prepared to proceed to trial. The case settled immediately before opening statements were to be made. Any person who believes in tort reform would reconsider their position if they understood the facts of this case. Ask yourself, what is eyesight in one of your eyes worth? It is doubtful that you would agree with politicians, backed by the lobbying money of insurance companies, that the amount of damage you can recover for such a loss should be capped. Rest assure that our client would rather have his full eyesight rather than the settlement he received. But at least there wasnt a law limiting his right to justly recover for his loss.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:26:01 +0000
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