In April of 2016, our client’s father and husband was tragically killed when he was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer on I-10 west of Junction, Texas.  He was returning to Texas after visiting family in California.  As he was driving Eastbound on I-10 late that night, he was rear-ended violently by an 18-wheeler driven by a sole owner-operator based out of Los Angeles.  The impact was so severe that debris from our client’s SUV smashed the windshield of the tractor-trailer.  His SUV was sent careening across the grass median into oncoming traffic headed westbound on I-10.  He was struck by a minivan and ejected from the vehicle.  The tractor-trailer driver attempted to lie to his insurance company and 911 by claiming that our client’s SUV was stalled on the highway.  However, the evidence did not match their story and we were able to show that he never hit his brakes, he tried to flee the scene, and he lied to emergency responders.  The insurance company tried to claim that the minivan was speeding.  We inspected the minivan, downloaded the black box data, and proved that the minivan was driving within the speed limit.  During an inspection of the 18-wheeler, we discovered evidence which showed that the driver and owner of the tractor-trailer were grossly negligent (e.g., water bottles with urine) and the data from its black box showed the only reason the tractor-trailer pulled over 2 miles later was because of mechanical problems.  The case was resolved for all of the available insurance limits without depositions in less than a year’s time.