Personal Injury & Torts
Feb. 5, 2011
Lawyers Dug Deep For Big Verdict
Linking a deadly 2007 car crash to a motorcycle shop in a neighboring county wasn't a cinch, but it enabled plaintiffs' lawyers to win possibly the largest personal injury verdict in Ventura County history.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The plaintiffs undoubtedly were sympathetic.
A fiery crash paralyzed a decorated California Highway Patrol officer and it killed a young man the officer stopped on the side of the road. All of it happened because a man in a pickup truck hauling motorcycles, with marijuana in his system, slammed into the two men.
To win a $48.2 million jury verdict - believed to be the largest in Ventura Cou...
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