Since 1980, Langer & Langer has fought for injured people across Northwest Indiana. We measure our work by one standard: what we actually recover for the clients who trust us. This result belongs to the family of a young man we’ll call Evan.*
Evan was driving down the road, doing nothing wrong, when a semi-truck driver made an improper left turn directly across his path. Evan did not survive the crash.
A tragedy like this is often presented by the defense as a single driver’s split-second mistake. It was not. It was the predictable result of decisions the trucking company made long before that day, and we proved it with the company’s own records.
Those records showed the driver had repeatedly failed to comply with the company’s safety policies. He had not reviewed even basic CDL training materials. He had multiple documented safety violations sitting in his file. The company saw all of it, and it kept him behind the wheel of an 80,000-pound vehicle anyway.
That distinction matters, and not just morally. A case against a careless driver is worth what that moment of carelessness cost. A case against a company that knowingly put an unqualified driver on the road is a different case entirely, because a jury gets to hear what the company knew and chose to ignore. Building that case takes discovery, document work, and a firm willing to dig through a carrier’s files instead of accepting the police report as the whole story.
We recovered $1,997,000 for Evan’s family.
No result brings Evan back, and nothing about this outcome feels like a victory to the people who loved him. But holding the company accountable for the choices that put that driver on the road mattered, and we were honored that his family trusted us to do it.
*Names have been changed to protect the family’s privacy.
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Past results do not guarantee any future outcome, and every case is different.
