Recent Third Party Liability Defense Verdicts
Attorneys L. Kathleen Chaney and Martha Ferris obtained a defense verdict in Bonnell v. Greenwood, following a jury trial in Adams County District Court. The parties were involved in a single car accident during a night of excessive drinking. The passenger-plaintiff was ejected from the car and suffered severe injuries. The car was owned by the passenger-plaintiff who started out driving that night and drove the car to multiple bars before the defendant took over driving. The jury found the plaintiff 65% at fault.
Attorneys L. Kathleen Chaney and Jerad West obtained a defense verdict in Carillo v. Kasak during a jury trial in Douglas County District Court, which involved a car-pedestrian accident. After a collision with a concrete median on I-25, the two women occupying the car got out and were standing in the middle of the highway. The lights on the disabled vehicle were broken. The defendant did not see the disabled car or the pedestrians on the highway until it was too late to avoid them. When the defendant swerved, his car struck one of the women killing her. The jury found that the defendant was not negligent and was not a cause of the accident.