California Auto and Truck Accident Lawsuit Success Stories
The following is a brief list of verdicts and settlements which the law office of CSF&W has obtained on behalf of their clients.
If you have been injured in an auto or truck accident, please visit our "Auto Accidents" or "Truck Accidents" pages for advice.
$5,000,000.00
Settlement for an 18 year old who was rendered a quadriplegic as a result of the negligence of a teenage driver who had been served alcohol at a restaurant. A national chain restaurant served a group of teenagers alcohol without carding any of them.
$1.8 million
Settlement for a man who sustained head injuries in an auto truck accident in Los Banos, California. The trucker failed to operate his rig in a safe fashion causing it to strike an automobile. The man suffered multiple head injury defects including memory loss, inability to concentrate or multi-task.
$1.6 million
Verdict against the City of Santa Cruz for the family of a man killed when a group of panicked horses collided with his truck on the freeway. The city failed to adequately secure a gate which allowed the horses to get free.
$1.35 million
Settlement against PG&E and the county of Santa Cruz for injuries sustained by a man and woman when their car struck a utility pole in Watsonville. The pole had been placed in an unsafe position near the roadway where it was foreseeable that a vehicle could strike it.
$1.2 million
Settlement for a man injured in a head-on collision in Santa Cruz County. The at-fault driver lost control of his vehicle while driving in the rain.
$1,000,000.00
Settlement on the first day of trial for a man who was severely injured while working for Davy Tree Company. The large tree cutting truck had a brake repair job done a day before. During the brake repair job the mechanic put in the brakes backwards which resulted in all of the brake fluid leaking out of the truck. As the truck came down a steep hill after doing a job, the driver lost the brakes and the victim had to jump out of the truck while it was careening out of control down a hill, suffering major injuries.
$1,020,000
Settlement for a couple who were involved in a high-speed automobile accident with a newspaper carrier. The force of the accident caused the wife to lose her 8 month old fetus.
$1,500,000
A 56 year-old truck driver was killed on an Interstate in Arizona when an eighteen-wheel truck traveling in the opposite direction crossed the center median causing a head-on collision between two trucks traveling 70 mph. All three occupants of both trucks were instantly killed. The wife and three adult children brought a wrongful death action against the trucking company who employed the trucker who crossed the median barrier. The accident occurred in Arizona and lawsuit was brought in Federal Court in Phoenix Arizona.
$500,000
A drywaller was on his way back to his employer’s construction yard when another commercial truck lost control of his vehicle while exiting I-880. The defendant struck the plaintiff head-on causing a low back injury which resulted in an artificial disk having to be put in the low back. Plaintiff had to be retrained to do different work than drywall because of his injuries.
$825,000.00
Settlement for a woman who lost her leg in an automobile accident. A defendant driver negligently stuck the passenger side of the vehicle after running a stop sign.
$750,000.00
Settlement for the surviving adult children of a man killed in an airplane crash in San Jose, California. The pilot had failed to perform an adequate precheck of the plane which would have revealed a defect in a major component.
$602,000.00
Verdict against a King City Trucking Company for head injuries sustained by a woman in an auto/truck accident on Highway 101 in Monterey, California. The trucker had jack-knifed his rig across the highway at night without adequate reflectors on the truck.
$600,000.00
Settlement for a woman who was injured by a junior high school principal on her way home from work. Although the principal was on her way home, the School District accepted responsibility for the accident.
$525,000.00
Settlement for the family of a woman killed in an auto/truck accident on Highway 101 in Monterey County, California.
$525,000.00
Settlement with Burger King in Capitola, CA for a young boy who was injured in the parking lot. A trucker got inpatient with traffic on 41st Avenue and tried to cut through the Burger King parking lot to get to his destination. In his rush the trucker failed to see a young boy crossing the parking lot. The young boy suffered major injuries which were complicated by the fact that he was a hemophiliac.
$100,000.00
Verdict for a woman who suffered a neck injury that required surgery when an Airborne Express delivery truck lost control in the rain, crossed the center line, and hit the woman head on while on her way to her job as a school teacher. The insurance company argued to the jury that the woman’s problems were simply due to old age, but the jury rejected that argument and found the accident caused her neck injury.
$1,020,000.00
Settlement for a couple who were involved in a high-speed automobile accident. The force of the accident caused the wife to lose her 8 month old fetus.
$290,000.00
Settlement for a victim of road rage. The Defendant exited his vehicle and punched through the window of the Plaintiff’s driver side window causing shards of glass to fly into his eye.
