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they have represented many people
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injured
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as a result of a trucking accident
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there’s one particular case that stands
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out because it
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was unique it wasn’t the typical
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trucking accident
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i actually actually represented the
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four-year-old daughter and the wife
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of a trucker who was killed while
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the cargo on the back of his trailer was
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being unloaded what happened was
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he was hired by a business entity he
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delivered a trailer
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full of seven thousand pound concrete
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walls to this business entity
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and as the walls are being offloaded one
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of the walls fell and crushed him
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he was not around to tell us his version
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of the events and the individual from
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the business who was there
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to do the unloading when the truck
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arrived on scene he asked
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the decedent the trucker will you help
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me unload these walls
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and the business owner had a forklift
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and
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the business owner’s version of the
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events when the police arrived
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was that the trucker was standing in an
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inappropriate place and for some
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unknown reason maybe the wind the wall
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fell and crushed him
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we hired a variety of experts one of
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which was an accident reconstructionist
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he went and went over with a fine-tooth
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comb
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all the evidence in the case and he was
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able to determine the only way
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that 7 000 pound wall could have fallen
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off that truck
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was if the forklift hit the top of it
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and forced it over and so he looked at
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all that evidence he was able to
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determine not only did that happen
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but the wall fell and hit the forklift
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on its way down
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because we could tell from the split
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pattern on the concrete wall
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and then it fell and crushed the the
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trucker
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we were able to secure a significant
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settlement
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on the eve of trial for the family of
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that trucker
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but if it wasn’t for our efforts and the
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the many experts we hired to go out and
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examine the evidence
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we would have never determined the truth
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and not only
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did the financial award help this family
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who no longer had the primary
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you know primary earner in the home but
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it also gave them closure
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because it helped them determine what
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happened
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it negated that story that somehow their
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father
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and or their their husband caused
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the acts or caused his injuries by being
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in an inappropriate place