Jury Returns Defense Verdict for Joe Traylor in Rear-End Trucking Accident

On April 27, 2016, a Multnomah County jury returned a unanimous defense verdict for Traylor’s client who had rear-ended the plaintiff and caused substantial damage to her vehicle. Plaintiff was seeking $2.2 million in damages for a brain injury. Traylor was able to subpoena information from Plaintiff’s own insurance company showing she had been in a much more significant accident just a month earlier, and although symptoms did not start until after the second accident, Traylor convinced the jury through the use of a neuro-psychologist and neurologist that the brain injury was more likely than not caused by the prior accident. Traylor’s client had offered over $125,000 to settle the case prior to trial.