{"id":7251,"date":"2019-10-09T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=7251"},"modified":"2019-10-08T11:23:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T11:23:36","slug":"6-7-million-judgment-for-wrongful-death-of-truck-driver-killed-when-tire-exploded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/6-7-million-judgment-for-wrongful-death-of-truck-driver-killed-when-tire-exploded\/","title":{"rendered":"$6.7 Million Judgment for Wrongful Death of Truck Driver Killed When Tire Exploded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elwood Breaux Jr. was working for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plaquemines_Parish,_Louisiana\">Plaquemines Parish<\/a> when the \u201czipper failure\u201d occurred, the name for a long sidewall rip with protruding metal reinforcement. With air escaping from the tire, Breaux was thrown backward and severely injured. He died 28 days after this occurrence on Feb. 5, 2014 of massive internal injuries to his chest and abdomen caused by the exploded tire. This case was tried before a judge in the Louisiana state district court.<\/p>\n<p>The judge calculated damages to Breaux, his five children and his wife, at $6.7 million, saying about $481,000 of that will reimburse the parish for the workers\u2019 compensation lien.<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana state law will return some of that to the family\u2019s share and judicial interest or add at least $1.4 million to the total. Attorney Danny Meeks represented the Breaux family in this tragic case.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/6-7-million-judgment-for-wrongful-death-of-truck-driver-killed-when-tire-exploded\/#more-7251\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elwood Breaux Jr. was working for Plaquemines Parish when the \u201czipper failure\u201d occurred, the name for a long sidewall rip with protruding metal reinforcement. With air escaping from the tire, Breaux was thrown backward and severely injured. He died 28 days after this occurrence on Feb. 5, 2014 of massive internal injuries to his chest [&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":[96,12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tire-defect-litigation","category-truck-accidents","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$6.7 Million Judgment for Wrongful Death of Truck Driver Killed When Tire Exploded &#8212; 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