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probably the most memorable trucking
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crash case we’ve handled was a case
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where my individual client was a member
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of a motorcycle club
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they had ridden down from maryland to
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north carolina they’ve taken a break
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they’re on a grass median on the side of
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the road
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ready to turn near greensboro north
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carolina
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a truck came down the highway the driver
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of the truck had fallen asleep
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he missed the curve he went off the road
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and he wiped out the entire motorcycle
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club
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12 members or more of that motorcycle
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club
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had catastrophic tragic injuries there’s
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some deaths
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there were losses of limbs my client had
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just tremendous injuries
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as well and the biggest problem was that
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we’re told in the beginning there’s only
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a million dollars in coverage
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by that truck to cover all of the
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injuries
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from all of the individual people that
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had their life just wiped out
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you just can’t accept that sometimes you
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as a lawyer you have to keep digging and
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digging and digging
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and instead of dividing up that million
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dollars 12 different ways between people
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who have had deaths people have lost
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limbs
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you got to keep digging we were able to
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dig and dig
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and finally found insurance through the
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insurance
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broker who put that trip together they
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picked up yogurt up in new england we’re
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bringing it down south
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and we’re able to get in and get
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coverage through the broker because we
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could prove that the broker knew
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that there were problems with this
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individual truck driver
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their problems with the individual truck
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that was used and we were able to get a
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negligence claim against the broker and
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find
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millions of dollars in additional
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coverage that
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changed completely the dollars that my
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client
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was going to accept for a settlement
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because he wasn’t just splitting the
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million dollars 12 different ways before