Trucker suffers brain injury in collision with another rig – $2,375,000 Arbitration Award 
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Published: August 23, 2010
Tags: Million-Dollar Verdicts, Personal Injury, Spotsylvania Circuit Court
Plaintiff was the operator of a tractor-trailer traveling south on Interstate 95 when he rear-ended a tractor-trailer operated by defendants. Plaintiff’s theory was that the defendant pulled off the shoulder of the interstate immediately in front of the plaintiff, who could not avoid the collision. In depositions, the defendants denied that they pulled off of ...
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