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MLW’s article of the week

March 27th, 2008 by admin

A $1.8 million judgment won by John Simon  and Jeff Roseman of Simon Passanante is featured as Missouri Lawyers Weekly’s article of the week.

On Dec. 31, 2002, a unit driver for U-Haul, was traveling southbound on Interstate 70/55 in St. Louis in a U-Haul truck. As he neared the Poplar Street Bridge, the truck threw a rod and broke down in the left lane of traffic.

Mohammad Othman was also traveling southbound on Interstate 70/55. When he moved into the left lane in order to pass a tractor-trailer, Othman collided with the stalled U-Haul truck and the semi. Othman suffered a closed-head injury in the accident.

Othman filed a negligence lawsuit against U-Haul Co. of Missouri and the driver in St. Louis City Circuit Court. Simon and Roseman represented Othman.

Othman alleged that the driver failed to turn on the U-Haul truck’s emergency flashers, failed to set out emergency triangles, failed to call 911 and failed to move the truck over to the right-hand side as far as possible. He also alleged that the U-Haul failed to properly maintain the vehicle by not checking the oil on a regular basis.

After an eight-day trial, a jury returned a verdict in favor of Othman for $1.8 million. The jury assessed 30 percent fault to Othman for the accident which reduced the verdict to $1,277,500.

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