A Waycross police officer who sued after being struck by a car rolling off of a tow truck, and later injured in two more accidents, was awarded $143,000 by a jury in what the defense attorney said was likely “the most complicated case I’m ever going to try.”
The jury laid all the blame on the wrecker company, declining to apportion any of the blame to the drivers in the subsequent cases or to a third nonparty defendant: the surgeon who twice operated on the officer.
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