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Celebrating Justice
Mark Masur and Pat Flaherty recently held a large landscaping company accountable for career ending injuries caused by the reckless driving of the company’s co-owner and vice-president. Through its liability insurer, the company paid $4,850,000 to an innocent victim forced to summon every ounce of courage and determination he possessed to survive the collision. The crash occurred in rural Kane County after the defendant dropped his dog off at a kennel. He was racing home in a Ford Expedition to pick up his wife for a flight to Florida. After reaching harrowing speeds, he blew a stop sign protecting a major through street. Upon entering the intersection, without stopping or looking, he caused a catastrophic collision with an off duty postal worker running an errand in his Jeep Patriot. An engineering analysis of the Expedition’s computer showed that the defendant had been driving at high speeds since leaving the kennel in total disregard of the community’s safety and well-being. A motion for punitive damages was to be ruled on by the Court shortly before the settlement was reached. The victim of this recklessness was a 42 year old postal worker who was driving to the DMV on his day off to renew his driver’s license. As a result of the collision, he suffered numerous fractures to his arms and leg and had to be flown by helicopter to Good Samaritan Hospital. He required multiple surgeries and long periods of rehabilitation. As hard as he worked and as determined as he was, he could not return to the post office or to any job that required work on his feet or heavy or repetitive work with his hands or arms. The settlement has enabled this remarkable man to make a new life for himself in place of the one violently stolen by carelessness and indifference.
