{"id":3542,"date":"2014-04-24T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3542"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:35:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:35:45","slug":"1-2-million-jury-verdict-truck-causes-five-car-chain-reaction-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/1-2-million-jury-verdict-truck-causes-five-car-chain-reaction-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.2 Million Jury Verdict Where Truck Causes Five Car Chain Reaction Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On May 20, 2008, Timothy Balota, 31, was driving southbound on Interstate 55 in Collinsville, Ill., when traffic came to a stop approaching a construction zone near Route 157.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Collinsville is a near east side suburb of St. Louis.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>A truck was stopped behind the plaintiff\u2019s car when the semi-tractor-trailer driven by defendant Lewis Casey rear-ended the truck at 20-30 mph.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>That crash triggered a chain reaction collision, which included five vehicles.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At the time of the crash, Balota was on his way to have staples removed from a surgery necessitated by a life-threatening accident just 13 months earlier.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As a result of the impact of this crash, Balota sustained <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcentral.com\/encyclopedia\/408\/398.html\">cervical disc injuries <\/a>at C5-6, C3-4 and C6-7 with future surgery recommended by his treating physician.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Balota also suffered aggravation of pre-existing conditions in his lumbar and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spineuniverse.com\/anatomy\/thoracic-spine\"> thoracic spine<\/a>. He claimed past and future lost time as a carpenter of $485,299.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/1-2-million-jury-verdict-truck-causes-five-car-chain-reaction-crash\/#more-3542\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 20, 2008, Timothy Balota, 31, was driving southbound on Interstate 55 in Collinsville, Ill., when traffic came to a stop approaching a construction zone near Route 157.\u00a0 Collinsville is a near east side suburb of St. Louis.\u00a0 A truck was stopped behind the plaintiff\u2019s car when the semi-tractor-trailer driven by defendant Lewis Casey [&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":[45,88,5,30,108,56,128,111,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-back-neck-injuries","category-car-accidents","category-experts","category-neck-injury-cases","category-personal-injury","category-rear-end-crash","category-semi-trailer-truck-accidents","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>$1.2 Million Jury Verdict Where Truck Causes Five Car Chain Reaction Crash &#8212; 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