{"id":5887,"date":"2016-02-22T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=5887"},"modified":"2016-02-22T06:07:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T12:07:23","slug":"chain-reaction-collision-caused-trucker-results-17-4-million-jury-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/chain-reaction-collision-caused-trucker-results-17-4-million-jury-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Chain-Reaction Collision Caused by Trucker Results in $17.4 Million Jury Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Sheaffer was a graduate film student at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiana.edu\">Indiana University<\/a>. He was in California making a documentary and was driving in moderate stop-and-go traffic on a freeway. As he was stopped in the line of traffic, Thomas Mose, driving a tanker truck for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuco2.com\">NuCO2<\/a>, rear-ended a vehicle two cars behind Sheaffer\u2019s while traveling at about 25 mph. A chain-reaction impact occurred. The car behind Sheaffer\u2019s rear-ended his car causing his seat to break. His car was then propelled into the SUV in front of him.<\/p>\n<p>Sheaffer suffered multiple skull and facial fractures, including fractures to his jaw and sinus, and a traumatic brain injury. He underwent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3324216\/\">open reduction internal fixation of the jaw<\/a>, and his jaw was wired shut for 8 weeks. The trauma and fractures caused Sheaffer to develop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightdiagnosis.com\/medical\/ischemic_bone_necrosis.htm\">ischemic bone disease<\/a>, osteoarthritis of the jaw, and deterioration and degeneration of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Condyle_(anatomy)\">condyles<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mandible\">mandible<\/a>. A condyle is the smooth surface area at the end of the bone forming a part of a joint. His past medical expenses totaled $141,900.<\/p>\n<p>Sheaffer continues to suffer from chronic pain and he will require additional surgeries and therapies to treat jaw pain and other problems. In addition, the brain injury has adversely affected his memory and his ability to cope with his jaw injuries. Sheaffer still plans a career in filmmaking, but he is no longer able to function at the level he was accustomed to before this crash.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/chain-reaction-collision-caused-trucker-results-17-4-million-jury-verdict\/#more-5887\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Sheaffer was a graduate film student at Indiana University. He was in California making a documentary and was driving in moderate stop-and-go traffic on a freeway. As he was stopped in the line of traffic, Thomas Mose, driving a tanker truck for NuCO2, rear-ended a vehicle two cars behind Sheaffer\u2019s while traveling at about [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-car-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>Chain-Reaction Collision Caused by Trucker Results in $17.4 Million Jury Verdict &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Russell Sheaffer was a graduate film student at Indiana University. 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