Attorney Robert Edward Sanders's Legal Cases

Personal injury

Golf Course Accident. Jury Trial Verdict:

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OUTCOME: Jury Trial Verdict: $1,900,000

Golf Course Accident: A golf course grounds crew erected a rope, stretched between steel bars driven deep into the ground to keep golfers from driving their carts across a newly seeded fairway. The yel ... low nylon rope was backlit by the sun and, thus, not visible to golfers. The rope should have been rigged to fall over if someone inadvertently ran into it. Instead, the grounds crew, in the words of a witness, put the barrier up “like they were erecting a fence to keep cows in.” A golfer drove his golf cart into the rope without seeing it. He was “clotheslined,” causing massive neck injury.

Trucking accident

Tractor-Trailer Crash Causes Wrongful Death

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OUTCOME: Settlement: 1,875,000

Tractor Trailer / Motor Vehicle Collision. Settlement With Major Truck Line: A mother was driving to work on a roadway often used by tractors hauling flatbed trailers. There were warning signs for vehi ... cles to slow down because they were approaching a sharp curve. The truck driver knew the roadway well and knew that it had been raining which made the roadway slick. When the truck driver took the curve too fast, his flatbed trailer skiddeed across the roadway, striking the lady’s car. The trailer was traveling at such a high rate of speed, it sliced off the top of the victim’s car and killed her.

Defective and dangerous products

Crashworthiness; Major Auto Manufacturer Pays

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OUTCOME: Settlement: $1,650,000

Seat Collapses in Automobile – Paraplegia. Products Liability Settlement Against Major U.S. Auto Manufacturer: A husband and wife’s were rear-ended by another motorist. The wife’s seat back collapsed a ... nd she was thrown rearward. Her body struck the rear-seat, causing her spinal cord to be functionally severed. She was permanently paralyzed from the waist down.

Wrongful death

Fraternity Held Responsible When Alcohol Party Leads to Tragic Death

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OUTCOME: Jury Trial Verdict: $1,200,000

Automobile Collision after Fraternity Party: A young man and his friend attended a fraternity party where he was provided with a large amount of alcohol. He and his friend decided to drive home. Noone ... at the party tried to prevent them from leaving, despite being obviously intoxicated. The driver fell asleep and wrecked, killing his friend. A jury found both the local and national fraternities responsible for the death of the young man.

Medical malpractice

Failure to perform timely C-section results in brain-damaged baby

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OUTCOME: Settlement: $1,200,000

OB physician's failure to perform a timely C-section results in brain damage to baby: An expectant mother went into labor. The fetal monitor strip showed that the baby was not receiving adequate oxygen ... and was not handling the labor well. The physician and hospital staff did not act quickly enough to deliver the baby by Cecarean Section. The baby suffered brain damage from lack of oxygen.

Robert Edward Sanders's Legal Cases (15)

Golf Course Accident. Jury Trial Verdict:

Tractor-Trailer Crash Causes Wrongful Death

Crashworthiness; Major Auto Manufacturer Pays

Fraternity Held Responsible When Alcohol Party Leads to Tragic Death

Failure to perform timely C-section results in brain-damaged baby