Highland Personal Injury Attorneys
CASE STUDY: Highland Nurse Settles Personal Injury Claim with Major Commercial Trucking Company
Case Summary
In the summer of 2007, Samantha was involved in a horrific car accident. The accident occurred in the midst of the Milford Flat Fire, the largest fire in Utah history, which burned more than 350,000 acres. The smoke and dust from the fire created dangerous driving conditions. With limited visibility, Samantha was forced to a gradually slow her SUV on the southbound lanes of I-15. As she came to a stop, a tractor trailer slammed into the back of her vehicle. The jaws of life finally were used to extract her seriously injured body from the wreckage.
Life-flighted to Safety from Automobile Wreckage
Samantha sustained many horrifying injuries including a three inch laceration through the muscle and bone of her left arm. Fortunately, Samantha is a nurse and was able to direct a bystander to create a makeshift tourniquet and applied pressure to the wound to help stop the bleeding. She also suffered terrible injuries to her neck, back and entire left side her body. Samantha was immediately transported to Fillmore Hospital, but her injuries necessitated a life-flight to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, where she remained an in-patient for three full days. A pelvic fracture required her to stay in bed for eight long weeks.
Due to another motorist’s reckless behavior, Samantha endured a slow and painful recovery, through months of physical therapy and bed rest. Although she has made substantial progress, her injuries will continue to affect her life for quite some time.
The Importance of Hiring an Experienced Personal Injury Attorney
Concerned with the inevitably considerable medical bills and the months of lost wages resulting from the accident, Samantha decided to seek legal representation from Kenneth Christensen, founding partner of The Christensen Law Firm, for her Utah Car accident. In trucking cases, the federal trucking regulations require truck driver to keep certain documents about their hours of operations and the truck’s maintenance and conditions. Since Samantha contacted the Christensen Law Firm immediately, Mrs. Christensen was able to preserve this important information that later proved to be an essential factor in settling the insurance claim for their global policy limits. With this settlement, Samantha has not needed to worry about incurring debt from Medical bills or any other economic worry. Fortunately, she has been able to remain focused on her physical and mental recovery.