{"id":5326,"date":"2010-06-07T16:16:46","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T23:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/news\/?p=382"},"modified":"2010-06-07T16:16:46","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T23:16:46","slug":"electrical-contractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2010\/06\/07\/electrical-contractor\/","title":{"rendered":"$500,000: Electrical Contractor Struck By Catering Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CASE DESCRIPTION<\/strong>:&nbsp; The defendant was driving a borrowed catering truck when he hit the plaintiff who was a pedestrian at the time.&nbsp; The defendants disputed liability due to the driver operating a borrowed vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><strong> RESULT: $500,000.00 total settlement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>William F. is a ten plus year customer of Defendant International Catering.&nbsp; William F. owns his own catering truck and purchases his food from International Catering.&nbsp; His own truck was under repair and he was using International Catering\u2019s truck at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Aztec Foods d\/b\/a International Catering, Inc. is a food service company which has a policy where they allow their customers whose trucks are being repaired to use one of International\u2019s trucks during the repair.<\/p>\n<p>A catering truck driven by defendant Willaim F. and owned by Defendant Aztec Foods d\/b\/a International Catering, Ind., backed into plaintiff who was working next to his vehicle.&nbsp; The plaintiff contended that defendant William F. was negligent in the operation of the catering truck, and that defendant Aztec Foods d\/b\/a international Catering, Inc. was responsible as owner of vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Defendant contended that plaintiff was solely or comparatively negligent for failing to hear a warning horn allegedly sounded prior to the truck backing into the driveway, or to move out of the way of the slow moving vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TYPE OF CASE<\/strong>: Auto v. Pedestrian<\/p>\n<p><strong>INJURIES<\/strong>: A broken leg, with permanent scarring, TMJ and tinnitus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OCCUPATION<\/strong>: Paul B. \u2013 Electrical Contractor<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLAINTIFF\u2019S ATTORNEY<\/strong>:<br \/>\nDarren O. Aitken &amp; Wylie A. Aitken<br \/>\nAITKEN *&nbsp;AITKEN&nbsp;* COHN<br \/>\n<em>For Plaintiff \u2013 Paul B.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>DEFENDANTS\u2019 ATTORNEY<\/strong>:<br \/>\nMichael Green<br \/>\nSELSKI, STURGEON &amp; WEHBE<br \/>\n<em>For Defendant \u2013 William F. &amp; Aztec Foods d\/b\/a International Catering, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>DEFENDANT INSURANCE CO.<\/strong>: Scottsdale Insurance Company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CASE DESCRIPTION:&nbsp; The defendant was driving a borrowed catering truck when he hit the plaintiff who was a pedestrian at the time.&nbsp; The defendants disputed liability due to the driver operating a borrowed vehicle. RESULT: $500,000.00 total settlement William F. is a ten plus year customer of Defendant International Catering.&nbsp; William F. owns his own&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2010\/06\/07\/electrical-contractor\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[826],"class_list":["post-5326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verdicts-settlements","tag-vehicular-accidents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}