$4,200,000 Fu In the early morning hours of June 11th, 2014, the plaintiff and his car passenger waited for help, parked in the shoulder of the 210 freeway with emergency flashers on. At 3a.m., the defendant, driving a semi-truck, was on his way home after being dismissed from work. He fell asleep at the wheel on the freeway and collided with the plaintiff\u2019s car, pushing the sedan into the freeway and then colliding with the center divider. The defendant survived the collision unharmed, while the plaintiff\u2019s passenger suffered devastating injuries. The plaintiff was killed on impact.<\/p>\n CONFIDENTIAL<\/p>\n CONFIDENTIAL<\/p>\n Christopher R. Aitken CONFIDENTIAL<\/p>\n CONFIDENTIAL<\/p>\n The negligence of the defendant is clear. He admits that his employer is liable for his actions. His company exercised control over their employees\u2019 actions, especially special employees like the defendant.<\/p>\n The defendant\u2019s company tried and failed to obtain summary judgement based on the argument that they were independent contractors.<\/p>\n Los Angeles<\/p>\n Pomona<\/p>\n BC550715<\/p>\n 7\/3\/14<\/p>\n CONFIDENTIAL<\/p>\n Robert A. Dukes<\/p>\n Troy D. Roe, Esq.<\/p>\n Wrongful death<\/p>\n June 11th, 2014<\/p>\n Eastbound Foothill 210 Freeway La Verne, CA<\/p>\n 35<\/p>\n Small business owner<\/p>\n Irvine, CA<\/p>\n Catherine Graves, MBA, CFA, economic loss; V. Paul Herbert, C.P.S.A, Motor Vehicle & Safety Compliance, David Stopper, trucking industry standard; Timothy J. Reust, Accident Reconstruction; Alvin Lowi III, PE, vehicular collision, crash and trajectory analysis<\/p>\n Fatal<\/p>\n Non-economic damages far exceed the total economic loss: $7,000,000.<\/p>\n Christopher R. Aitken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FINAL RESULT: $4,200,000 Fu $1,800,000 Ashe $6,000,000 Total CASE DESCRIPTION: In the early morning hours of June 11th, 2014, the plaintiff and his car passenger waited for help, parked in the shoulder of the 210 freeway with emergency flashers on. At 3a.m., the defendant, driving a semi-truck, was on his way home after being dismissed… read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verdicts-settlements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563","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=9563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nRichard A. Cohn
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