The attorney for a man injured when a tractor-trailer rear-ended his Porsche said he was pleasantly surprised when a jury returned a $1.3 million verdict in his client’s favor. Now, says Steven J. Newton, he’ll see whether Georgia’s “offer of judgment” statute will allow him to seek his one-third contingency fee of more than $400,000 on top of the award in light of the defense’s failure to respond to settlement offers made last year. “I anticipate two appeals coming out of this,” said Newton, “the case itself, and the contingency fees. I don’t know about any cases like this that have gone up on appeal about contingencies.”
The case began in Nov. 6, 2008, when Daniel Gilortiz was driving his 2002 Boxster along Cobb Parkway in Marietta. According to the plaintiff’s account in the pretrial order, Gilortiz had stopped at a traffic signal when a truck owned by Cincinnati-based Cintas Corp., which supplies uniforms and other items to businesses, ran into his automobile and pushed him into the car in front of him.
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