Earleen Cote and Jason Friedman, of our Ft. Lauderdale office, won a defense verdict in a serious trucking accident case. The subject accident involved two separate impacts with three 18-wheeler trucks and occurred at 4:00 am on a foggy morning. We argued that the first impact, which was a huge impact, caused all of the injuries to Plaintiff.  In the second impact, our client was traveling in the same direction as Plaintiff and scraped the side of Plaintiff’s trailer. The main tortfeasor had limited coverage and settled early on, so Plaintiff and his experts changed their stories and sought to blame our insured for all of the injuries. Earleen spent every second of her hour-and-fifteen minute closing explaining how each witness, including Plaintiff, changed their stories and that it was impossible that our impact caused the injuries to the Plaintiff. The jury was out for 70 minutes, including lunch, and came back with a complete defense verdict. There was also a proposal for settlement of $750,000.00 that had expired about two years ago.