Tony Stewart cleared. No charges will be filed

[spqrzilla]

ive always wondered that and never took the time to look it up. Say you hit a pedestrian that jumps in front of your car on the highway, or in the middle of a busy street with no crosswalks, what has happened in past cases?

In my first year of practicing law, working insurance defense, we had a case where our insured driving down an unlit residential street in the dark hit a pedestrian wearing dark clothes. Didn't kill him, but something like a third of a million in medical costs from the injuries (this was two decades ago when it took work to run up med bills ...)

As a lark, and in part because the plaintiff's lawyer was a f'up, I wrote a motion for summary judgment arguing that the plaintiff had no evidence of negligence by my client. And won it.

Got a write up in the region's legal profession newspaper too.

[Great-Kazoo]

In my first year of practicing law, working insurance defense, we had a case where our insured driving down an unlit residential street in the dark hit a pedestrian wearing dark clothes. Didn't kill him, but something like a third of a million in medical costs from the injuries (this was two decades ago when it took work to run up med bills ...)

As a lark, and in part because the plaintiff's lawyer was a f'up, I wrote a motion for summary judgment arguing that the plaintiff had no evidence of negligence by my client. And won it.

Got a write up in the region's legal profession newspaper too.

Flip side of that, a friend hits a drunk walking out from between 2 vehicles, ticket written for failure to yield to pedestrian. . Only damage was to the case of beer on the road. Pedestrian claimed this and that, ambulance called. Friend sweating out loosing everything, because he is of the mind to pay as little as possible for Everything.