In October of 2008, our client was struck by a newspaper delivery truck while riding his bicycle in Newport Beach, California. He suffered a >>traumatic brain injury http://www.callahan-law.com/verdicts-settlements/Personal-injury-newport-beach-biker/index.html and was hospitalized for about two months. He requires continuing physical, educational, and occupational therapy needs, along with ongoing medical care.
While the identities of the involved parties are confidential, the details of the settlement are not. Even though our client is a middle-aged man with no immediate family and no employment history, the attorneys at Callahan & Blaine were able to negotiate a settlement of $7 million – over $6 million more than the average settlement in cases with similar factors.
At Callahan & Blaine, we believe our success in litigating and negotiating personal injury cases comes from our uncommon approach: we handle each personal injury case as though it were a complex business litigation case, looking at the facts from every possible angle.
In order to achieve the very favorable settlement in this case, our attorneys overcame strenuous opposition including claims that the newspaper was not responsible for the acts of the independent contractor newspaper carrier, as well as certain causation defenses.
We anticipate that the funds from the settlement will be ample to cover his immediate and medical and therapeutic needs as well as compensate him for the pain and suffering caused by the accident.
Callahan & Blaine, California’s Premier Litigation Firm, is one of the leading catastrophic injury firms in the state of California, and handles serious personal injury, wrongful death and product liability cases nationwide. In fact, in the last five years alone our lawyers have obtained over $1.2 billion in verdicts and settlements.
If you or someone you know has suffered a catastrophic injury or died as the result of an accident, please contact our Orange County, California law firm for expert legal counsel.
