Best Car Accident Lawyers in Boynton Beach, FL

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭. Three friends were traveling home after a night class at their community college in a pick-up truck. The plaintiff was a back seat passenger in the truck. The truck was struck by an SUV belonging to Gainesville Regional Utilities and driven by a City employee. The employee failed to stop at a stop sign. The force of the crash caused the pickup to roll over, and ejected the plaintiff who was rendered paraplegic. At the time of accident, the plaintiff was not wearing a seat belt. Additionally, his friend the driver’s truck was traveling more than ten miles over the posted speed limit. In a prior appeal, the City had appealed the trial court’s denial of the City’s motion for summary judgment on sovereign immunity. The trial court had concluded that the driver was in the course and scope of his employment based upon the application of the “dual-purpose” exception to the going and coming rule applied to the undisputed facts of the case. After the first district affirmed the denial of sovereign immunity without an opinion, it became “law of the case.”...