'Dream' Auto Accident Case Wrecked by Trial Evidence Plaintiff Switched Cars
The defense said the case, which involved substantial medical damages and a plaintiff who miscarried after the collision, would have been a great plaintiff's case—if she had actually been in the car she claimed was wrecked.
October 16, 2018 at 02:31 PM
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A woman who claimed to have incurred more than $300,000 in medical bills after a truck backed into her car walked out of a DeKalb County courtroom with nothing after defense testimony showed that she swapped out the scarcely damaged car before police arrived with another that had been wrecked years earlier.
Adding to her credibility problems was testimony from her doctors that she'd been complaining about back pain for years even though she said in depositions that she'd never been in a wreck or suffered any injuries, said defense lawyer G. Lee Welborn of Marietta's Downey & Cleveland.
“This started off as a plaintiffs attorney's dream case,” said Welborn.
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