Most Recently:
Brake company performs negligent work, failing to tighten bolt properly. Bolt falls out while the vehicle is on the interstate, causing the car to flip. Driver suffers crushed knee, undergoes knee replacement and will need multiple future knee replacements. Brake company refused to settle the case for an adequate amount. Ben Daniel took the case to trial. After five day jury trial, Plaintiff is awarded $2,478,310. Defendant did not appeal the verdict.
Man suffers permanent eye injury on the job. Settled with workers compensation carrier for $140,000.
Man knocked unconscious by iron gate striking him during high wind downtown. Settled for $152,500.
Man injured out of state in auto accident with 18-wheeler. Suffered permanent scarring. Settled for $177,000.
Woman suffers death at hospital due to alleged negligence. Confidential settlement reached at mediation.
Woman injured in auto accident in Florida. Settled for $120,000.
Thirty-two year old woman checks into hospital for tonsillectomy; air supply cut off after procedure. Patient is on life support for 3 days. Pronounced dead after life support discontinued. Settlement with the hospital for $750,000.
Twenty-two year old man rear-ended by eighteen-wheeler in Mississippi. Suffers serious injuries including several broken bones. Settled for $650,000.
Company vehicle makes illegal left turn in front of client in Mississippi. Suffers several broken bones. Settled for policy limits of $500,000.
Man goes into hospital for surgery; hospital leaves IV in arm too long causing an infection requiring surgery. Settled for $247,500.
Company car runs stop sign hitting client. Client suffers serious injuries. Case settled for $175,000.
Woman making a turn when individual runs red light. Client suffers soft tissue injury. Circuit Court jury trial awards $55,000 judgment, exceeding policy limits of $25,000.
Thirty-one year old man injured when his car is forced off the road by an 18-wheeler. Settlement will pay client over $11,000,000 during his lifetime.
Mother and daughter injured by an 18-wheeler in Arkansas Settled for $650,000.
Ten year-old boy injured in car wreck with no broken bones. Settled for $1,700,000.00.
Twenty-three year old man suffers brain damage when struck by an eighteen-wheeler that pulled in front of him from a stop sign on the highway. Settled for $5,630,000.
Past Cases of Interest:
- Woman loses toe after fall at Wal-Mart. Confidential settlement.
- Fourteen year-old child suffered partial leg amputation from the knee down while crossing between two stopped trains at a train yard. Confidential settlement.
- Child suffers brain damage and requires brain surgery when vehicle struck his vehicle in automobile accident. Settled for $745,000.
- Woman struck and killed by a van that ran off the road, striking her on the sidewalk. Settled for policy limits of $500,000.
- Woman died in fire while driving a GM pickup and struck on the side, causing the gas tank to explode upon impact. Confidential settlement in Federal Court with General Motors.
- Elderly Man struck and paralyzed on rural highway in Tennessee while walking on the shoulder of the road. Settled out of court.
- Man shot by security officer at an apartment complex when he was mistaken for a known criminal. Settled for $125,000.
- Elderly woman dies when she goes to hospital for asthma attack and hospital personnel insert tube into incorrect artery in her neck. Settled for $320,000.
- Man dies when unloading truck and driver puts truck into reverse, crushing his head. Settled out of court.
- Man dies when gas truck traveling in front of him had accident, causing flames to engulf several cars following it. Settled out of court.
