$3,750,000 Settlement: Truck Collision, Tazewell County, IL (2022)
Handling attorney: Robert Parker, with co-counsel · All case results
- Amount: $3,750,000
- Case type: Truck accident
- Mechanism: Collision with a commercial service truck at a Tazewell County intersection inside an active road-construction zone
- Venue: Tenth Judicial Circuit (filed in Peoria County)
- Year resolved: 2022
- Outcome: Settlement (structured)
- Primary injury: Left leg fractures requiring multiple surgeries, deep-vein thrombosis, and chronic back pain
How the case was built
Our client was driving through a Tazewell County intersection during active road construction when a commercial service truck collided with his vehicle. The crash left him with left leg fractures that required multiple surgeries, a deep-vein thrombosis, and chronic back pain that outlasted every procedure.
Liability was disputed from the start, and the case ran seven years from crash to resolution. The defense included multiple corporate defendants and a national insurer, which meant layered policies and coordinated defense counsel. The case was built the way serious truck cases have to be built: accident reconstruction, cell-phone forensic evidence bearing on what the drivers were doing in the seconds before impact, extensive treating-physician testimony, and Medicare compliance work to protect the client’s future care. It resolved in 2022 for $3,750,000, paid in a structure designed around the client’s long-term needs.
The lesson for anyone hurt by a commercial vehicle: these cases are not car crashes with bigger vehicles. They are corporate litigation, and the value is built through the structure, not around it. Our truck accident practice page explains how we approach them.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case is fact-specific.
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