{"id":1070,"date":"2013-05-06T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury-robertkreisman.lawblogger.net\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2013-05-11T07:48:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T12:48:50","slug":"federal-tort-claims-act-case-lays-out-burden-of-proof-furry-et-al-v-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/federal-tort-claims-act-case-lays-out-burden-of-proof-furry-et-al-v-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Tort Claims Act Case Lays Out Burden of Proof; Furry et al. v. United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca7.uscourts.gov\/\">Seventh Circuit United States Court of Appeals<\/a> has affirmed a decision by the district court judge regarding the burden of proof in a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_Tort_Claims_Act\">Federal Tort Claims Act <\/a>(FTCA) case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ronald Williams was a substitute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usps.com\/\">U.S. Postal Service<\/a> letter carrier who had parallel parked his truck to visit a friend.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The plaintiffs in this case, David Furry and Diane Nye, were driving by that home when their vehicle collided with the parked U.S. Postal Service truck, which was driven by Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Furry and Nye testified that they did not see the postal truck before the impact.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Williams, realizing that regardless of the outcome, he would be fired for the use of his truck to visit a friend, offered Furry $500 not to report the incident. <span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/federal-tort-claims-act-case-lays-out-burden-of-proof-furry-et-al-v-united-states\/#more-1070\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seventh Circuit United States Court of Appeals has affirmed a decision by the district court judge regarding the burden of proof in a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) case. Ronald Williams was a substitute U.S. Postal Service letter carrier who had parallel parked his truck to visit a friend.\u00a0 The plaintiffs in this case, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,5,38,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-car-accidents","category-federal-law","category-truck-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Federal Tort Claims Act Case Lays Out Burden of Proof; Furry et al. v. 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