Successes

Transportation Trials

Since entering private practice in 1996, Robert Hanlon, Jr. has served as lead trial counsel in more than twenty civil cases in nine states.  They include:

  • TRANSPORTATION – TRUCKING:  Mr. Hanlon represented the defendant in this trucking case, which was tried in August 2005 in Onondoga County, New York.  The case involved a lane-change collision between a tractor trailer and the plaintiff’s passenger car.  The truck impacted the car three times before pushing it into a guard rail.  The plaintiff sustained a closed head injury.  The jury returned a no cause of action verdict.
  • TRANSPORTATION – TRUCKING:  Mr. Hanlon represented the defendant in this trucking case, which was tried in November 2005 in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.  The case involved an intersection collision between a tractor trailer and plaintiff’s passenger car.  Plaintiff had the right of way.  Plaintiff alleged a laundry list of injuries, but the evidence suggested many of them were fabricated in an effort to sustain a pre-existing addiction to prescription pain medications.  The jury returned a no cause of action verdict.
  • TRANSPORTATION – TRUCKING:  Mr. Hanlon represented the defendant in this trucking case, which was tried in March 2007 in New Haven, Connecticut.  The defendant driver brought his truck to a stop in the center lane of a three lane highway due to an accident blocking the road ahead.  It was raining and the rear end of his trailer drifted into the left lane where it impacted plaintiff’s vehicle.  Plaintiff sustained injuries that required a cervical fusion.  The jury returned a no cause of action verdict.
  • TRANSPORTATION – TRUCKING:  Mr. Hanlon represented the defendant in this trucking case, which was tried in November and December 2007 in New York County, New York.  The accident occurred as the plaintiff pedestrian was either standing on the shoulder or in the process of crossing Montauk Highway on Long Island.  He was struck by a truck driven by the defendant.  Plaintiff sustained significant orthopedic injuries, brain damage and facial nerve damage, and he lost vision in one eye.  Following a three-week trial, the jury allocated 60% fault to the defendant driver, 40% fault to the plaintiff, and awarded $4 million in compensatory damages.
  • NEGLIGENCE – AUTOMOTIVE:  Mr. Hanlon represented the defendant in this automobile negligence case, which was tried in September and October 2008 in Union County, New Jersey.  The defendant illegally parked  his car in such a way that its rear end extended into the travel portion of a roadway and it was subsequently broadsided by another vehicle.  One of the defendant’s passengers was killed in the accident and another was seriously injured.  Mr. Hanlon was retained as trial counsel by the defendant’s excess insurance provider because the case presented an exposure in excess of the $1 million primary policy.  The jury returned a plaintiffs’ verdict and awarded damages totaling $770,000.  Plaintiffs’ appeal challenging the sufficiency of the award was denied.