David Marsh settled a case for the widow and children of a sanitation worker who died while on the job in Cullman County. The 35-year-old was working as a “thrower” on the rear of a huge white garbage truck operating along Highway 231 just south of Arab, Alabama, when the garbage truck was struck from behind. The driver of a contractor’s truck barreled into the rear of the garbage truck at 55 mph in the middle of broad daylight. The collision was so violent it knocked the huge garbage truck 33 feet forward and threw our client to the pavement where he suffered fatal blows to the chest and head. The wreck was captured on video surveillance tape at a nearby gas station located by one of our investigators.
Alabama’s Unique Rule for Defective Products
A Product Liability Framework Unique to Alabama Alabama takes a genuinely different approach to defective product claims than most other states, one built around a doctrine found nowhere else in the country. Understanding how this framework actually works matters...