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$ 3.5 million Settlement for
auto injury

Our eighteen-year-old client was driving on an interstate into the early morning sun. As he drove over a rise in the road, he struck a car that was disabled and stopped in the middle of the road because a 150-pound wheel and tire detached from a tractor-trailer rig traveling in the opposite direction. The lugs holding the tire had broken off, causing the tire and wheel to travel across the median strip, and hit and disable the stopped vehicle.
Awarded: $ 3.5 million

$1,000,000 Jury Verdict for
86 year-old woman

Our client an 86 year-old woman sustained an injury after being struck by a bus. The inattentive bus driver was warned by a passenger that the woman was crossing in front of the bus but could not stop in time to avoid impact.
Awarded: $1,000,000

$785,000 Settlement for
crushed ankle

Our client was operating his motorcycle on a two-lane road when a large box truck made a U-turn into his path of travel. The client attempted to avoid the collision by laying his motorcycle on its side. Unfortunately his lower leg and ankle came in contact with the truck causing seven fractures and soft tissue injury.
Awarded: $785,000

DISCLAIMER: Please note that every case is different and these verdicts and settlements, while accurate, do not represent what we may obtain for you in your case.

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Massachusetts Girl Won’t Testify in Abuse Case

Posted on Oct 10, 2008

The notorious end-of-life case involving a girl who survived extreme physical abuse will not be called to testify against the man who hurt her, according to a notice filed. The girl was beat into a coma and her brain was injured by the assault.

Prosecutors met with Haleigh Poutre, 14, several times, spoke with her doctors and reviewed her medical and psychological records, which led them to the decision to not call her as a witness. State officials will not discuss Poutre’s condition, citing privacy laws and her recovery is unknown.

The notice was filed just one day before a scheduled hearing in Hampden Superior Court to decide if Poutre was mentally competent to be a witness.

“The Commonwealth has concluded that it would not be in the best interests of the child to testify in a public forum and has decided to forego the information she would have supplied rather than further traumatize the child,” stated Assistant District Attorney Laurel Brandt in a court filing.

According to authorities, Poutre was severely beaten in 2005 by Jason Strickland and his wife Holli, who was Poutre’s sister. The Stricklands had adopted Poutre when her birth mother gave up her parental rights.

The state gained custody of Poutre after she was hospitalized with a damaged brain stem that doctors said left her comatose. She became the center of a heartrending legal case when the Department of Social Services wanted to remove her feeding tube, believing she had no hope of recovery.

Poutre improved enough to survive without a ventilator, which prompted an extensive evaluation of how the state handles right-to-die questions for children in its care. There was a lot of criticism saying that the state had moved too quickly in wanting to remove the feeding tube. Poutre’s case was key to a massive change of the state’s child welfare system, including the creation of a new Office of the Child Advocate.

Strickland is scheduled to go to trial on assault charges on October 29, 2008. He has pleaded not guilty. Holli Strickland died in a murder-suicide with her grandmother two weeks after she pleaded innocent to assault charges in September 2005.

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