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Six years after a commercial driver fell asleep behind the wheel of his personal vehicle, lawyers have reached a multimillion-dollar settlement for the families of three men killed in the head-on collision that followed.
Now a trio of Georgia litigators is sharing how it leveraged novel liability theories to “convert a routine policy limits settlement of $25,000 per person” into a combined $3 million payout against the at-fault driver’s employer.
‘Worked Excessive Hours’
Darl H. Champion Jr. (left) and Eric B. Funt of the Champion Firm in Marietta, Georgia. (Courtesy photos)
