Firm obtains Connecticut personal injury defense win
PROVIDENCE (Dec. 4, 2009) – Partner Stephen Adams and Associate Timothy J. Groves recently persuaded a Connecticut Superior Court trial judge to reject the personal injury claim of a woman involved in a motor vehicle accident.
The woman alleged that the firm’s client, a driver of an oil delivery truck, negligently operated his vehicle when making a left turn in an intersection of two major roads in Norwich, Conn. The woman’s vehicle, traveling in the opposite direction from the oil delivery truck, collided with a third vehicle shortly after the oil delivery truck completed the turn through the intersection.
Connecticut Superior Court Judge Robert C. Leuba found that the firm’s client operated his oil delivery truck properly, and that the woman did not keep a proper lookout for the third vehicle, which, after entering the intersection from the woman’s right, had stopped to allow the oil delivery truck to safely make its turn.
Despite having an unobstructed view of the intersection, the woman claimed she did not see the third vehicle waiting in the intersection at any time prior to the collision.
Mr. Adams and Mr. Groves argued that under Connecticut law a driver who has the right of way at an intersection cannot enter the intersection without maintaining a lookout for other vehicles already in the intersection.
“We asserted all along that our client was not negligent in any way and the evidence supported our position,” Adams said. “This is a fair and proper result.”
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