Driver Sustains Brain Injury When Dump Truck Tips Over

$687,500 settlement

…The plaintiff then alleged that the truck tipped over due to latent ground instability. Plaintiff’s counsel bolstered the instability claim with the use of a geotechnical engineer who claimed the defect of ground instability was hidden from the plaintiff and could only have been discovered and cured by the defendants, who were in control of the grounds. The plaintiff then alleged that if the defendants did not perceive a hazard, the plaintiff could not have been expected to avoid it.