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It is no surprise that devastating injuries can result when tons of metal collide at high speeds. Unfortunately, it is not easy to understand the legal maze of your own auto insurance policy and your rights for a fair recovery. The attorneys of Raynes McCarty can guide you through that maze and represent you, as we have hundreds of others.
Car accidents frequently involve just two parties: our clients and those who injured them because of unsafe driving. A Raynes McCarty attorney not only helped write Pennsylvania auto law for these types of accidents, he also wrote the book explaining the law to other attorneys.
To achieve positive results for our clients, we work with design engineers, trucking safety experts, and leading industry specialists. When it's time to explain an accident, we develop advanced computer animations that make the truth very clear to juries.
Some examples of our cases involving auto accidents include:
- $15,000,000 Verdict for Car Passenger In an older section
of Philadelphia, a set of decades old trolley tracks ran down
the center of the street in a right-of-way reserved for public
transit. Because the various governmental units involved could
not agree who had the legal responsibility for maintaining the
tracks, the condition of the tracks and surrounding road severely
deteriorated. The dangerous condition of the roadway caused the
driver of a car to lose control; tragically, the passenger suffered
serious orthopedic injuries. Investigation of the accident revealed
the interagency bickering. The agencies again would not fulfill
their responsibilities by compensating the passenger for her injuries,
thereby forcing her to trial. With Gerald A. McHugh, Jr. as co-counsel at trial, the jury returned a $15,000,000
verdict. The case was reported by the American Bar Association
Journal as one of that year's top 10 jury verdicts.
- $6,000,000 for Young Father Killed in Fiery Crash Roy
DeCaro led the Raynes McCarty team called upon to represent in
federal court the family of a young husband and father who was
burned to death when his car was struck by a tractor trailer in
Delaware County.
- $5,700,000 Verdict in Fatal Car Crash Florence was killed
in a car crash when a van driven by a Choice Courier employee
skidded into her. Roy DeCaro convinced a federal court jury to
award $1.8 million in compensatory damages for this homemaker,
even though she had never worked outside of her home. The jury
also awarded $3.7 million in punitive damages because the company's
vans had bald tires, which they had neither inspected not corrected.
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more about the case. .
- $5,000,000.00 Settlement for Death of Teenager Unlawfully Served Alcohol An 18-year-old attended a sporting event, where he was illegally served multiple beers by vendors who did not check his identification and who failed to follow the arena's limits on the volume of alcohol that could be sold to a patron. As he drove home, the young man could not navigate a turn and was killed in a one-car crash. The team of Jerry McHugh, Steve Raynes, and Tina McLaughlin successfully refuted a defense that the young man was to blame for his own death and established that the responsibility rested with the vendor. A videotape settlement brochure – assembled by Marty Brigham – allowed the family to express their painful loss without the need for their formal testimony. The Raynes McCarty team secured for the family a $5 million dollar pre-trial settlement from the vendors' parent company.
- Confidential Seven-Figure Settlement for Train Engineer's
Widow A train collided with a gasoline tanker at a grade crossing,
resulting in a massive fire and the death of the train's engineer.
The accident was caused in part by the failure of the railroad-crossing
signal, and in part by the driver of the oil company tank truck,
as he failed to look before entering the crossing. The investigative
report of the National Transportation Safety Board suggested that
the truck driver had no responsibility for the accident. Acting
on behalf of the engineer's widow, we performed an independent
reconstruction of the accident and disproved the conclusions of
the NTSB. One of our attorneys obtained a confidential seven-Figure
settlement for the engineer's widow.
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