An injured plaintiff was rear-ended by a tractor trailer, severely injuring his lower back. A trucking expert showcased how the driver was not following CDL guidelines when he hit the plaintiff’s vehicle. A neurosurgeon testified the injury would affect the plaintiff for the rest of his life. As a result, Muchnick Haber Margolis won a unanimous verdict that was thirty times what the trucking company suggested at trial.

Muchnick Haber Margolis represented a woman who was injured when a tractor trailer side-swiped her vehicle while it was parked. Two years later, she was involved in another collision with an employee of a local brewery. We filed lawsuits against the drivers and their employers for our client’s injured neck and back. After years of litigation, we were able to settle the case for almost $1.4 million.

Muchnick Haber Margolis represented the wife after her husband died two years after the collision with a gasoline tanker truck. The man injured his neck, shoulder and back and had surgeries over the next couple years. After one of the surgeries he died of a stroke and we alleged the accident caused the surgery and the stroke was a complication of that surgery, so the truck driver and company were responsible for the death.

In 2018, Josh helped a Springfield woman obtain the $1 million insurance policy limits in a highly-contested tractor-trailer case. The trucking company spent years blaming the victim for speeding and not paying attention while its driver was making a turn. It also claimed she was not injured because she did not have any broken bones or visible injuries. We hired an expert and used drone footage to show the truck driver did not make a proper turn. Numerous medical experts were also used to establish our client suffered from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a rare disorder in which pain is out of proportion to the injury.

We represented a client who struck the rear of a tractor trailer after it was improperly stopped on an interstate highway.  The client suffered severe injuries to his arm.  Although an argument was made that our client was at fault for the collision, we were able to obtain a significant settlement.

Josh represented a severely injured woman and helped her receive a $1 million settlement for her injuries in a trucking accident. The plaintiff had no visible injuries, but as the use of her arm deteriorated, she was diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). Margolis fought against the trucking company’s defense claiming that she had been speeding and found them liable for failing to properly vet their trucker drivers. The case settled shortly before trial after four years of litigation. Despite the insurance company’s initial position that it would not pay a substantial amount of money to settle the case, it ultimately offered the full one million dollar policy limit of the trucking company insurance policy.