Catastrophic Injury/Wrongful Death
Representative Cases
- A 37 year old motorcyclist going 30-35 mph with the right-of-way at the intersection of a cross-street T-bones a passenger vehicle that pulls out in front of him. He is immediately unconscious with massive injuries. The family instructs the emergency medical staff to administer all lifesaving measures possible. The motorcyclist never recovers from the trauma and is left in a complete vegetative state for life requiring 24/7 care.
- A patron at a major sporting event sponsored by a whiskey company is drunk holding a 16-ounce beer in each hand while leaning over a pedestrian bridge to vomit. The patron then falls 20 feet onto his head. He sustains traumatic brain injury, blindness in one eye, and significant orthopedic and internal injuries.
- A middle-aged drunk patron alights from a bus through the rear doors, takes one step off the bus, and before he is stable or otherwise walks away, the bus begins to pull away from the bus stop. The patron falls backwards against the moving bus, falls into the street and is run over. The patron sustains a degloving injury to a lower extremity and broken back.
- A middle-aged drunk male is about to board a bus. He is unable to get himself to the front door, walks away from the bus, and then approaches the bus just after it begins to depart from the bus stop. The man falls into the gutter with the bus riding over his leg. The leg is amputated just below the knee.
- At dusk, a bus loses all power and stalls in the HOV lane on a freeway. A postal worker on his way to his night shift rear-ends the bus with his car immediately bursting into flames. The postal worker dies with his body so badly burned that all that remains is an unrecognizable charred corpse.
- A bus driver falls asleep at 1:00 a.m. running into several cars parked near a pop-up taco stand. One of the pedestrians waiting for his taco is pinned under a vehicle and dies with his wife at his side, leaving four young children. Several other pedestrians sustain various personal injuries including lower extremity fractures and claims of TBI.
