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RALEIGH, NC -- Type of action: Wrongful death Motor vehicle
Case name: Confidential
Case number: Confidential
Court: Confidential
Settlement or verdict: Settlement (mediation)
Mediator's name: Burton Craige
Settlement date: Oct. 18, 2007
Special damages: Funeral expenses, loss of net income and services, loss of society
and companionship
Plaintiff's experts: Lee Brinkley Bryan, MEd, CRC, CVE of Athens, Ga. (vocational
rehabilitation consultant); Mike Dickinson, PE of Matthews (accident reconstruction);
J. Finley Lee, Ph.D of Chapel Hill (economist); Michael E. McLeod, Ph.D. of Boone
(economist).
Plaintiff's attorneys: W. Thompson Comerford, Jr. and Kevin J. Williams of Comerford
& Britt, LLP, Winston-Salem; R. Brandt Deal of Hatfield, Mountcastle, Deal,
Van Zandt & Mann, LLP of Winston-Salem.
Submitted by: W. Thompson Comerford Jr.
This case arose out of a collision between the defendant's tractor-trailer and a
Mazda Miata operated by the plaintiff's decedent.
The decedent, who had recently lost his position as a mid-level executive, was traveling
in the right lane of U.S. 421 North, a divided four-lane highway, near Winston-Salem.
The defendant tractor-trailer, which was traveling in the same direction, struck
the decedent's vehicle causing it to lose control. The decedent, who was the vehicle's
only occupant, was killed in the accident.
The decedent was survived by his wife and their two children, ages 21 and 18.
The case settled after mediation and before trial.
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