$11 Million Settlement After a Bus Driver Crashed While Intoxicated
Two of our clients were hurt when a bus driver flipped the bus while he was intoxicated. The settlement was $11 million. Attorney’s fees and expenses came to $4,813,000.
The company is one of the biggest bus operators in the country. In the investigation we learned it never made this driver take an alcohol test. Not once. Asked about that in deposition, the company and its lawyers said they did not need to test their drivers. The crash is the answer to that.
Same terminal, same stretch of months before the wreck: the drivers there were left unsupervised. The company said it did not need to watch them day to day either. No alcohol testing and nobody looking in on the drivers is how an intoxicated driver ends up at the wheel. The industry standard on both points is ordinary. They skipped it.
The settlement is what gives these two a way to start putting their lives back together.
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