Jeff Woolard v. Neil Kramer
Published: May 20, 2003 | Result Date: Apr. 8, 2003 | Filing Date: Jan. 1, 1900 |Case number: BCV04807 Verdict – $0
Judge
Court
San Bernardino Superior
Attorneys
Plaintiff
Defendant
Robert T. Bergsten
(Hosp, Gilbert & Bergsten)
Experts
Plaintiff
James Griffen
(technical)
Patrick Wymore
(medical)
Sanjay J. Chauhan
(medical)
Defendant
Kenneth A. Solomon
(technical)
Edmund Dombrowski
(medical)
Facts
On Jan. 21, 1999, the defendant Neil Kramer was in the course of driving an 80,000-pound tractor trailer and fell asleep at the wheel of his rig as he was driving northbound on the I-15 Freeway near Baker. Kramer's rig slammed into a tractor trailer driven by the plaintiff Jeff Woolard, 42, knocking the vehicle off the freeway and into the desert. The plaintiff was rendered unconscious.
Settlement Discussions
The defendant made a C.C.P. Section 998 offer of $500; the plaintiff made a demand of $1 million.
Specials in Evidence
$50,000 $200,000 $1.2 million $100,000
Result
Herniated neck and lower back discs, knee derangement, loss of consciousness, post concussion syndrome, eye injury, hearing loss and multiple future surgeries.
Deliberation
five minutes
Poll
12-0 (causation)
Length
five days
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