Michael A. Kelly and Richard H. Schoenberger negotiated an $18,000,000 settlement on behalf a 10-year-old child who sustained serious brain injury when the car she was riding in was struck by an 18-wheeler on a suburban state highway. The trucking company accepted liability but vigorously challenged damages, alleging that the child suffered from pre-existing spectrum…
Child v. Any Truck – Truck v. Auto Collision, Pediatric Brain Injury
Adult v. Trucking Company – Truck Driver Negligence
Car Struck by Tractor-Trailer Struck
In Commuter v. Broker (Cal. Sup. Ct.) Michael A. Kelly, Andrew McDevitt and Conor M. Kelly negotiated a confidential settlement in excess of $10,000,000 on behalf of a woman who was struck at high speed by a tractor-trailer while driving home from work. The force of the collision caused major orthopedic and internal injuries leaving her disabled…
SUV Struck By Truck
In Driver v. Fire Department (So. Cal. Sup. Ct.) Douglas Saeltzer and Spencer Pahlke negotiated a $4,050,000 settlement arising from a collision between a fire truck and the plaintiff at a major intersection. While the plaintiff approached the intersection with a green light, she did not hear a fire truck approaching with its sirens and lights on….
Family v. Trucking Corp
In Family v. Trucking Corp. (confidential settlement) Michael A. Kelly, Richard H. Schoenberger and Jeffrey A. Clause negotiated an eight-figure confidential settlement on behalf of the survivors of a mother and daughter killed in a head-on crash on a rural highway. The mother and daughter were seat-belted and travelling at the speed limit when the defendant’s…
Motorcyclist Struck by Truck
In Parents v. California Trucking Group (Central Cal. Sup. Ct.) Doris Cheng and Clifton Smoot obtained a policy-limits $3,000,000 settlement, as well as changes to the defendant trucking company’s safety policies. Plaintiffs were the parents of an unmarried adult child. The decedent was studying medicine at the time of the crash and planning a career helping underserved…
Pedestrian Struck By Cable Car
In Commuter v. CCSF (S.F. Sup. Ct.) Michael Kelly and Conor Kelly obtained an $11,000,000 settlement on behalf of a 78-year-old woman who was struck by a cable car while walking inside a marked crosswalk on Hyde Street. Witnesses originally faulted the plaintiff for the accident, but security video from a nearby building revealed that she began…
Family v Company
Big Rig Rollover Caused by Dangerous Highway Merge
Our big rig liability team obtained this multimillion-dollar settlement in a combined wrongful death and injury case for a Stockton couple forced off the road by a fatigued and improperly licensed big rig driver. The Bay Area couple was forced to correct their SUV toward the soft dirt shoulder on the left side of the…