Zach Matthews and Matt Sessions of McMickle Kurey & Branch secured a defense verdict in a Bleckley County trucking tort where their client was sued for the medical expenses of a plaintiff rendered a quadriplegic after an accident and died six months later. The catch? The case was originally filed in 2012 and both parties had been dead for years when it finally went to trial.

“It was a very weird case because there was a family with a dead plaintiff arguing a case against a widow who’s the estate representative of a dead truck driver. Everything had to come in by written records that, in some cases, had been taken years before,” Matthews said. “The case required an incredible amount of technical craft work. I’ve been practicing law for 17 years and I have not had to come to grips with hearsay law on that level since law school.”

A headshot of Zach Matthews. Zach Matthews of McMickle Kurey & Branch. Courtesy photo