A $6.5 million recovery for a pedestrian with a traumatic brain injury.

Our client was walking through a marked crosswalk when a distracted delivery driver failed to stop. The collision caused a traumatic brain injury, the kind of injury that does not heal and does not let you go back to the life you had.

These are the cases insurers fight hardest, because the value is high. A serious brain injury changes how a person works, thinks, and relates to the people around them for the rest of their life. The defense knew that, which is exactly why they came in low.

The insurer's first move was a $450,000 offer, a fraction of what the case was worth. The most common defense in a pedestrian case is to shift blame to the person on foot, so we built the record that took that argument off the table.

Our partners spent years inside the insurance system, valuing and defending claims exactly like this one. We used that knowledge to document the full lifetime cost of the injury and to force the carrier to confront a number it could not walk away from.

The case resolved for $6.5 million, more than fourteen times the opening offer. It remains one of the firm's largest recoveries.

No amount of money undoes a brain injury. What this result did was secure the lifetime of care and stability our client will need, on terms set by the facts rather than by an adjuster's first number.