Hunter v. Daimler Truck North America, LLC, 2024 WL 834592 (Sup. Ct. Waterbury, Feb. 22, 2024) - This matter involved an accident where a box truck driver fell asleep and veered to one side of the road, flipping the vehicle...more
Prime Insurance Company v. Cordova, 2024 WL 513706, No. 22, 2024 (Del. Feb. 9, 2024) - This action involved a motor vehicle collision where the named defendants defaulted, and an order was entered against them for failure to...more
Faircloth v. Main Street Entertainment, Inc., 2024 WL 972238 (Fla. Mar. 7, 2024) - This case involved a motor vehicle accident involving an allegedly intoxicated and underage driver and a pedestrian. At the time, the...more
Williams v. First Student, Inc., 2024 WL 1132237, No. 20-cv-1176 (CPO) (SAK) (D. N.J. Mar. 15, 2024) - The plaintiffs’ sought to obtain a preclusion of expert evidence and adverse inference at trial for failure to maintain...more
Vadnais v. United States of America, 2024 WL 1101823, No. 21-cv-0012 (KHP) (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 13, 2024) - This matter may be a perfect example of the strategic benefit of litigating in federal court as opposed to New York State...more
Estate of Coumbassa v. Hickle, 2023 WL 8234445, 2023-Ohio-4292 (Ohio App. Nov. 28, 2023) - A fantastic set of facts saw a lower court’s ruling affirmed by the appellate court when a motorist/decedent, whose actions were...more
Allen v. Foxway Transportation, Inc., 2024 WL 0478015, No. 4:21-cv-00156 (M.D. Pa. Dec. 7, 2023) - In a tragic, fatal collision between a tractor trailer and a passenger vehicle, which was disabled after striking a deer, the...more
Puglia v. Safeco Ins. Co. of Illinois, 2023 WL 8059335 (Sup. Ct. New Haven, Nov. 15, 2023) - This matter involved a simple uninsured motorist claim and damages dispute between the insured plaintiff and her insurance company....more
Glass-Hill v. Gordon, 2023 Wl 5202615, No. N21C-11204 (SPL) (Del. Super. Ct. Aug. 14, 2023) - This action involved a motor vehicle collision where the facts were not in dispute. It was agreed the plaintiff approached an...more
Goddard v. J.S.J. Unlimited, LLC, 368 So.3d 109, 2023 WL 4982324 ((Fla. Dist. Ct. App. Aug. 4, 2023) - This case involved a defense verdict where the trial court denied the plaintiff’s requested jury instructions as to a...more
Ortiz v. Stevenson, 2023 WL 6619674, No. 21-cv-17066 (EP) (ESK) (D. N.J. Oct. 11, 2023) - The present issue involves a plaintiff’s attempt to amend the complaint to allege spoliation of a dashboard camera. The plaintiff was...more
Biamonte v. Biamonte, 219 A.D.3d 683, 194 N.Y.S.3d 553 (2d Dept Aug. 16, 2023) - The decedent driver had borrowed a vehicle from the defendant owner that had a malfunctioning gas gauge. The decedent ran out of gas and was...more
Mencini v. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, 221 N.E.3d 200, 2023-Ohio-2299 (Ohio App. July 6, 2023) - This matter addressed the applicability of Ohio’s sovereign and municipal liability laws as they pertain to...more
National Liability & Fire Insurance Co. v. Brimar Transit, Inc., 2023 WL 6172886 (3d Cir., Sep. 22, 2023) - In a case that could have a significant impact on school transportation companies and school districts that provide...more
Angeles v. Ruiz, 2023 WL 3669914, No. A-3751-20 (N.J. Super. App. Div. May 26, 2023) - The plaintiff was involved in a motor vehicle accident with a snowplow driver for the City of Kearney. While approaching an intersection...more
Karlen v. Uber Technologies, Inc., 2023 WL 3570635 No. 3:21-cv-835 (VAB) (D. Conn May 19, 2023) - The plaintiff alleged that on an Uber trip, intended to take the plaintiff from Philadelphia to Connecticut, the driver engaged...more
Kerns v. Hale, 2023 WL 2820467, No. 21-CA-3970 (Ohio App. Apr. 4, 2023) - This matter involved a pedestrian and motor-vehicle accident—the defendant struck two individuals walking on a highway off-ramp, who were allegedly...more
Pemberton v. Montoya, 2023 N.Y. Slip Op. 02674, 2023 WL 3486551 (2d Dept May 17, 2023) - In a highly regular procedural development, the defendant in a vehicular accident failed to timely answer, and the plaintiff moved for a...more
The plaintiff, a nursing assistant, was sitting in the front seat of an ambulance that rear-ended a vehicle at a red light in poor weather conditions. The defendant maintained he was driving the speed limit, while the...more
This action involved a motor vehicle collision where the factual dispute at issue on summary judgment addressed whether the plaintiff had timely filed her complaint. The plaintiff filed her action on November 3, 2020,...more
This highly interesting decision claims to be in line with our jurisdictions, but it appears to carve out additional liability, even in situations where the party seeking summary judgment is not the proximate cause of the...more
The plaintiff served a standard notice, pursuant to Connecticut General Statutes § 13a-144, to set aside the state’s sovereign immunity with regard to a defect on state highways or sidewalks that allegedly caused a person to...more
This action involved a motor vehicle collision where the defendant tried to merge onto a highway where the plaintiff’s vehicle was stopped at the top of the merge lane. In response to this, the defendant attempted to speed up...more
This matter involved an otherwise standard motor-vehicle action but with an alleged hit-and-run driver. The plaintiff, using a trailer license plate number, claimed the involved tractor-trailer belonged to the defendant,...more