$10.75 Million

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Settlement against a Japanese shipping company for negligence in maintaining their tractor trailer allowing the rear wheels to break off striking a pedestrian and causing severe burns and mild brain damage.

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Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf · Notable Verdicts and Settlements

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First observed: August 23, 2026

Last checked: August 23, 2026

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Compare $41.5 Million published recovery: $41.5 million verdict for a sanitation worker who was fatally hit by a sweeper truck. This is also the highest verdict in New York State in 2017 in a truck accident lawsuit. At the time of the fatal accident, Steven Frosh was in a city garage adjusting his sweeper truck. Another truck arrived in the garage and fatally struck him. The victim left behind him a wife and four young children. from Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf Compare $21 Million published recovery: $21 Million 27 year old man struck by tractor trailer while tending to his disabled vehicle on the shoulder of a New York highway sustaining serious lower leg injuries requiring a double amputation. from Rubenstein & Rynecki Compare $11 Million published recovery: $11,000,000 18 wheeler Catastrophic Injury Lawsuit Settlement $11 million settlement for a 59 year old woman who suffered catastrophic injuries due to being struck by an 18 wheeler while crossing in a crosswalk. from Parker Waichman LLP Compare $9.6 Million published recovery: $9.6 Million Out-of-court settlement for client Gary S., partially paralyzed when a sixteen-ton delivery truck ran a stop sign; obtained in just over one year. from Ellis Law, P.C.Compare $6.7 Million published recovery: $6,700,000 Fractures and closed head trauma, 31-year-old man; settlement after verdict. from McMahon & McCarthy

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