This is part three of “Despite Million Dollar Verdicts Log Trucks Still A Dark And Deadly Menace.” To read the earlier installments, click Part 1 and Part 2.
Less than year after the $12.9 million verdict in Turtle’s case a poorly lit log truck claimed yet another victim, a young father on his way to work at the JEA plant in Jacksonville.
The log truck did not have a strobe beacon light but only a weaker pancake light. The truck was going less than 45 miles per hour because it had just turned back onto U.S. 1 after bypassing that same Hilliard weigh station that was bypassed in Turtle’s case.
The young father did not see the truck in time and plowed into the rear of the log truck. The logs shattered the windshield and the father of four children was killed.
The defense had strong arguments for comparative negligence based on speed, seatbelt usage and read-end impact. Nevertheless, perhaps knowing about the $12.9 million verdict when the insurance company refused to pay in Turtle’s case, the insurance company in this case timely tendered its $2 million limits on demand by The Law Firm of Pajcic & Pajcic.
Regrettably, the traffic homicide report cleared the log truck of any fault because the state’s legal counsel concluded that the weak pancake light was all that the law requires from log trucks. Something must be done to halt the senseless carnage and The Law Firm of Pajcic & Pajcic is proud to continue to represent the victims of these poorly lit log trucks.
This is part three of “Despite Million Dollar Verdicts Log Trucks Still A Dark And Deadly Menace.” To read the earlier installments, click Part 1 and Part 2.
Less than year after the $12.9 million verdict in Turtle’s case a poorly lit log truck claimed yet another victim, a young father on his way to work at the JEA plant in Jacksonville.
The log truck did not have a strobe beacon light but only a weaker pancake light. The truck was going less than 45 miles per hour because it had just turned back onto U.S. 1 after bypassing that same Hilliard weigh station that was bypassed in Turtle’s case.
The young father did not see the truck in time and plowed into the rear of the log truck. The logs shattered the windshield and the father of four children was killed.
The defense had strong arguments for comparative negligence based on speed, seatbelt usage and read-end impact. Nevertheless, perhaps knowing about the $12.9 million verdict when the insurance company refused to pay in Turtle’s case, the insurance company in this case timely tendered its $2 million limits on demand by The Law Firm of Pajcic & Pajcic.
Regrettably, the traffic homicide report cleared the log truck of any fault because the state’s legal counsel concluded that the weak pancake light was all that the law requires from log trucks. Something must be done to halt the senseless carnage and The Law Firm of Pajcic & Pajcic is proud to continue to represent the victims of these poorly lit log trucks.