Rear-End Collision by Commercial Vehicle Lawyer
Injuries Cervical and lumbar spine injuries, ongoing pain
Our client was stopped in traffic when a commercial transportation vehicle rear-ended her at speed. The responding officer cited the driver. We respondeat superior liability against both the driver and the corporate owner, despite the owner trying to claim that the driver stole the company car. Through discovery, we learned that the driver was paid for the hours worked when he rear ended our client.
We demanded the full policy limit with a hard deadline, invoking Massachusetts bad faith statutes and putting the insurer on notice that the corporate defendant could not hide behind its employee. We resolved the case for the over $500,000.