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CONSTRUCTION

The Plaintiff-decedent was a laborer working at an on-site batch plant for a road construction project. He was run over by an excavator moving gravel. The excavator’s reverse alarm was inoperative and the Defendant had knowledge of the same. The Plaintiff-decedent lived for three days before life support was terminated.

Demand
$1.4 million

Offer
Mediation requested

Result
Settled for $650,000

Venue
Allegheny County

Judge
Baldwin

Attorney
Paul J. Walsh III

Date

April 1999