A pair of Atlanta personal injury lawyers have clenched a $1.2 million jury verdict for an Atlanta plaintiff involved in a low-impact collision with a city bus.
Rafi Law Firm attorneys Michael Rafi and Chris Stokes credit their client's seven-figure award in Fulton County Superior Court to creative trial tactics, including their creation of a "crash victim" job ad aimed at showing jurors "the million-dollar value" of the plaintiff's permanent injuries.
But defense counsel with Cameron Hawkins LLC in Atlanta attribute a portion of the jury award to jurors' knowledge of plaintiff attorney's fees.
|'It Was His Fault'
When Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) bus driver Dawan Winbush "misjudged the clearing while turning left off of Browns Mill Road onto Hamilton Boulevard" in June 2019, he "struck the front left side" of plaintiff Qiana Duncan's vehicle, per the amended plaintiff complaint drafted by Rafi.
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Cedra Mayfield is a litigation reporter with the Daily Report, the ALM newspaper in Atlanta. She can be reached at cmayfield@alm.com. Twitter: @cedramayfield