The Plaintiff had worked for his employer, a chemical manufacturer, for 39 years. The incident occurred when the Defendant truck driver drove off from the loading bay while the Plaintiff was still loading chemicals into the hopper on top of his hazardous materials trailer. The Plaintiff fell onto a safety cage, landed on top of the trailer, and then dropped approximately 14 feet to the ground.

The Plaintiff suffered multiple severe injuries, including a brain bleed, followed by multiple strokes that resulted in a traumatic brain injury; complicated compound fractures to the right wrist resulting in four past surgeries and a future bone graft and fusion; right clavicle fracture and SLAP tear requiring surgery; lumbar injury requiring long term injection therapy; meniscus tear to the left knee with recommended total knee replacement; and multiple other orthopedic and internal injuries.

Following expert designations, attorney Craig Davis participated in a mediation in which the personal injury case settled for $2,000,000.00. The workers’ compensation claim settled shortly thereafter for a lien reduction of $353,504.41.