Posts Archive: Car Accident & Vehicle Injury

Streed’s client was out drinking with friends at two rural MN bars. The bars kept serving alcohol to the men as one of them had identified himself as the “sober driver”. The bars proceeded to over serve their customers to the point where they were obviously intoxicated, a violation of a bar’s legal duty. The bar employees were not too concerned with this violation of MN’s liquor liability law because they assumed the sober driver would be driving the men all night long. They assumed wrong; eventually the sober driver went home and one of the drunken men drove and caused a rollover crash that resulted in serious injuries to his passenger, Streed’s client….

Meshbesher & Spence attorney Mark Streed helped the mother of an eight year old boy, who was killed while crossing a busy street, overcome an insurance company’s opinion that the boy had “darted out” and was completely at fault. The Ramsey County jury concluded the driver of the car, not the little boy, was primarily at fault and awarded Mr. Streed’s client damages in excess of the insurance company’s policy limits.

A 22-year-old passenger in an insured vehicle that was violently hit by a hit and run driver suffered a shattered hip. His injuries required surgery to piece the hip joint back together, causing him to miss 6 months of work. After other lawyers unsuccessfully tried to identify the hit and run driver and find insurance coverage, they dropped his case…

A mother experienced the terror of seeing a speeding, out of control car careening directly at her while she waited for her 4-year-old son to walk to her. She was momentarily relieved when the vehicle suddenly swerved away, but then witnessed what no parent should ever see: the vehicle hit her young son and sent him flying through the air and into a ditch. When she came to his bloodied body she believed he was dead…

In western Minnesota, Meshbesher & Spence attorney Mark Streed represented a Sibley County farm wife and mother of two children whose husband/father had been killed in a collision involving a semi-tractor trailer. The resulting wrongful death verdict against the semi driver and his insurance company was the largest verdict in that county’s history and made a significant difference in the family’s ability to continue to farm.

A woman of two adult children and one grandchild was killed when a horse escaped from a parked horse trailer and ran onto a highway, at night, and collided with decedent’s car. The horse jumped through an open 31 in. x 25 in. drop-down feed door that did not have safety guards (bars) to contain the horse when the feed door was left down for ventilation….

An 18-year old man was struck by a drunk driver in Cass County, resulting in severe orthopedic injuries and a traumatic brain injury. The defendants maintained that his pre-existing ADHD and depression were the source of his post-accident behavioral and emotional problems, which Meshbesher & Spence proved to be untrue-he and his family received a significant settlement on the eve of the trial.

This collision between a semi-truck and a minivan occurred at the intersection of Highway 12 and County Road 6 in Orono. Earlier in the day, a storm had passed through the intersection, causing the traffic lights to malfunction. As a result, drivers were treating the intersection as a four-way stop. When the minivan driver took his turn through the intersection, the driver of a semi-truck drove through the intersection at highway speeds, causing a devastating accident that resulted in a permanent brain injury to the driver of the minivan…

This case involved an appeal of a district court’s ruling regarding coverage in an automobile accident lawsuit. The District Court ruled that a woman’s insurance policy did not provide coverage because, at the time of the accident, she was delivering newspapers and was excluded from coverage under the business pursuits portion of her policy…

A Minnesota man sustained an incomplete quadriplegia injury that caused paralysis when a commercial semi-trailer crashed into his car outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. After the accident, the man spent considerable time hospitalized and in a nursing home away from his family until a substantial settlement from the trucking company made it possible for his family to bring him h…