Foster Wallace then engaged an expert to extract data from both the cars that showed the other driver was speeding prior to the accident and hit the brake less than a second before the accident. Because of this data, Foster Wallace turned down the other driver’s offers to settle this matter on the cheap and demanded and eventually obtained two policy limit offers for the daughters. Because this was a wrongful death claim, the settlement was recently approved by the Johnson County court in both cases.
This case is a good example of why it is important to hire a competent attorney after a car accident as if the car was disposed of by the other driver then there would have been no proof that the driver was speeding and not paying attention. Because we were able to hire an expert quickly to pull data from the other driver’s automobile, our clients received an additional $100,000.00 (which were that driver’s insurance policy limits).
