{"id":1153,"date":"2013-05-13T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury-robertkreisman.lawblogger.net\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2013-05-17T11:47:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T16:47:09","slug":"1-1-million-jury-verdict-in-effingham-county-illinois-truck-crash-reaves-v-kuresevic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/1-1-million-jury-verdict-in-effingham-county-illinois-truck-crash-reaves-v-kuresevic\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.1 Million Jury Verdict in Effingham County, Illinois, Truck Crash; Reaves v. Kuresevic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A federal court jury in St. Louis found that the driver of a tractor-trailer, Ilija Kuresevic of Fort Worth, Texas, was responsible for the crash in the early morning hours of Feb. 26, 2010 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.effingham.il.us\/\">Effingham County, Ill.<\/a><span>\u00a0 <\/span>The injured party, George Reaves Jr., a St. Louis County truck driver, rear-ended another truck driven by Kuresevic on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interstate_70_in_Illinois\">Interstate 70 in Illinois<\/a>.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Reaves claimed that the Kuresevic truck stopped or almost stopped in the roadway at 3 a.m., which was the reason for the crash.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Reaves&#8217;s lawsuit said that when his UPS tractor trailer rear-ended Kuresevic\u2019s truck, Reaves was seriously injured.<span>\u00a0<\/span>He claimed that he injured his head, face, back and other parts of his body, including the loss of the tip of his tongue.Reaves was also rear-ended by another truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/1-1-million-jury-verdict-in-effingham-county-illinois-truck-crash-reaves-v-kuresevic\/#more-1153\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court jury in St. Louis found that the driver of a tractor-trailer, Ilija Kuresevic of Fort Worth, Texas, was responsible for the crash in the early morning hours of Feb. 26, 2010 in Effingham County, Ill.\u00a0 The injured party, George Reaves Jr., a St. Louis County truck driver, rear-ended another truck driven by [&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":[42,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-jurisdiction","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>$1.1 Million Jury Verdict in Effingham County, Illinois, Truck Crash; Reaves v. 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