{"id":7383,"date":"2019-10-28T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:32:15","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-affirms-54-million-jury-verdict-where-defendant-appellant-failed-to-raise-issue-in-post-trial-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-54-million-jury-verdict-where-defendant-appellant-failed-to-raise-issue-in-post-trial-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Affirms $54 Million Jury Verdict Where Defendant-Appellant Failed to Raise Issue in Post-Trial Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Lee Johnson, an employee of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universaltruckloadinc.com\">Universal AM-CAN Ltd.<\/a> and Louis Broadwell LLC, was driving a truck owned by his employers above the speed limit while on a suspended license.\u00a0 Johnson crashed his vehicle into a Jeep in front of him driven by the plaintiff, James Denton.<\/p>\n<p>The crash pushed Denton\u2019s car into a semitrailer tractor truck. Denton eventually managed to crawl out of the rear passenger window, but he suffered multiple traumatic injuries, including severe nerve and spinal damage. He required nine surgeries that were not altogether successful. His injuries have left him with a neurogenic bladder and he is unable to work. Denton also was required to see a counselor for depression and anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the truck, Johnson, had nine traffic-related offenses in the seven years before applying to work at Universal as well as four counts of felony reckless aggravated assault when he tried, with a wooden club, to break the headlights of the car occupied by four women who he claimed were tailgating him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-affirms-54-million-jury-verdict-where-defendant-appellant-failed-to-raise-issue-in-post-trial-motion\/#more-7383\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Lee Johnson, an employee of Universal AM-CAN Ltd. and Louis Broadwell LLC, was driving a truck owned by his employers above the speed limit while on a suspended license.\u00a0 Johnson crashed his vehicle into a Jeep in front of him driven by the plaintiff, James Denton. The crash pushed Denton\u2019s car into a semitrailer [&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":[91,128,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appellate-procedure","category-rear-end-crash","category-semi-trailer-truck-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Appellate Court Affirms $54 Million Jury Verdict Where Defendant-Appellant Failed to Raise Issue in Post-Trial Motion &#8212; 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