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Tractor Trailer Accident -
$924,000.00 |
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GARY FERRELL, as Administrator
of the ESTATE OF JENNIFER HAMMOND
and as Natural Guardian and Next Friend of SIERRA
ALEXANDRIA MORGAN FERRELL, a minor
v.s.
ARCHIE FRANK McCOLLOUGH, G & M TRANSPORTATION
SERVICES, INC.
and CANAL INSURANCE COMPANY
Fayette County State Court
Civil Action File No. 99SV-516
Liability Facts: Plaintiff’s 20 year old female
decedent was traveling southbound on I-285 in Dekalb
County at approximately 3:00 a.m. when she collided
with the rear of another vehicle which had become
disabled in the center lane due to a previous
collision. Both of these vehicles remained in the
travel portion of the highway. Without engaging her
emergency flashers, Plaintiff’s decedent exited her
vehicle and was standing alongside it in the highway
when a GMC Bobcat tractor driven by Defendant
McCollough on behalf of his employer Defendant G & M
Transportation Services, Inc. was also traveling
southbound on I-285 and did not perceive the
vehicles as being stopped in sufficient time to
avoid them. The Defendant driver swerved to the left
to avoid colliding with the stopped vehicles but
struck the pedestrian decedent causing fatal
injuries.
Defendants contended that Plaintiff’s decedent was
contributorily negligent by failing to keep a proper
lookout when she struck the disabled vehicle, by
failing to remove her vehicle from the roadway and
that she assumed the risk of serious injury or death
by standing alongside her vehicle in the middle of
I-285. Defendants further contended that they were
not negligent and that the accident was unavoidable.
Injury: Death
Medical Expert: Brian S. Frist, M.D., Dekalb County
Medical Examiner
Medical Expenses: Funeral expenses of $9,467.25
Settlement: Structured settlement via mediation
totaling $924,300.00
Attorneys: Ronald F. Chalker, Falanga & Chalker and
Scott A. Cochran, Cochran, Camp & Snipes for
Plaintiffs; T. Cullen Gilliland and Charles Ratz,
Gray & Gilliland, P.C. for Defendants.
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Atlanta Georgia
800-564-0006 |
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