{"id":7619,"date":"2019-07-12T11:39:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/?p=7619"},"modified":"2019-07-12T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:40:08","slug":"car-accident-attorney-wins-8-97m-for-crash-involving-dominos-pizza-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/2019\/07\/12\/car-accident-attorney-wins-8-97m-for-crash-involving-dominos-pizza-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Accident Attorney Wins $8.97M for Crash Involving Domino’s Pizza Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Florida jury has awarded $8.97 million in damages to\nthe widow of a former fire chief who became a quadriplegic after he swerved his\ncar and crashed on a Florida highway to avoid a collision with a car being\ndriven into his lane by a Domino’s\npizza delivery driver<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The victim, Richard Wiederhold, was 62 years old and had\nretired as a fire chief in Brevard County, Florida, when the crash occurred in\nMarch of 2011 on Florida State Road 50, according to a June 14 report by CVN.com<\/em>.\nWiederhold was driving in his truck along the road when he allegedly swerved\nsharply to avoid a collision with a pizza delivery car being driven by Jeffrey\nKidd, the story reported. Wiederhold’s truck drove into the median and then\nback across the roadway before overturning following the near-collision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiederhold\nwas left a quadriplegic due to his injuries and was unable to care for himself\nafter the crash. He later died\nabout 15 months after the incident<\/a> due to complications from his injuries,\nthe report stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kidd,\nthe driver of the Domino’s delivery vehicle, was found by a jury in Florida’s\nNinth Judicial Circuit court to be 100% responsible for the crash that led to\nWiederhold’s injuries. “Jurors concluded Kidd, and the Fischler\nEnterprises Domino\u2019s franchise he worked for at the time of the crash, were\nagents of the larger Domino\u2019s Pizza corporate franchisor, rendering the pizza\ngiant, the case\u2019s named defendant, liable,” the story reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domino\u2019s\nargued that the franchise Kidd worked for was an independent business and that\nthe corporation was not responsible for his conduct, but the jury disagreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\njury awarded $8 million to Wiederhold’s widow, Yvonne, and more than $970,000 for\nmedical and other expenses related to his care. Yvonne Wiederhold was a\npassenger in his truck on the day of the crash but the couple had not yet\nmarried. Yvonne Wiederhold said in trial testimony that Kidd caused the wreck\nby pulling dangerously into Wiederhold\u2019s path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nwas the second trial in the case. The plaintiffs won an earlier verdict in 2016\nin the case but it was overturned in 2018, with orders for a new trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Legal cases like this one occur around the\nnation every day and are examples of similar kinds of car crash cases\nthat MyPhillyLawyer<\/em> attorneys regularly work on tirelessly for\nour own clients. Often, we are not able to discuss the cases we are actively\nworking on due to confidentiality requirements, so we discuss other\nrelevant cases in the news such as this one to illustrate the legal situations\npeople find themselves in every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you need a car accident injury attorney<\/a>, we here at MyPhillyLawyer<\/em> stand\nready to assist you with your legal case if you or a loved one is ever\nseriously injured in any kind of car crash, slip and fall, workplace\ninjury or wrongful death in Philadelphia or anywhere in the United States. We\npledge to make sure that you and your family get the compassionate, dogged and\nexperienced legal representation that you deserve and expect from a\nprofessional legal team which works hard to uncover every fact to bolster your\ncase and maximize your damage award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We represent the families of victims who die\nin such tragedies as well, to ensure that their families receive every penny of\ndamages that they are eligible to receive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talk to a Philadelphia car crash attorney\nat MyPhillyLawyer<\/em><\/a> by\ncalling 215-227-2727 or toll-free at 1-(866) 352-4572 anytime\nand our experienced, compassionate, aggressive team of attorneys and support\nstaff will be there for you and your family every step of the way as we manage\nyour case through the legal system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Winning Matters Most, Call MyPhillyLawyer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to <\/em><\/strong>Court Radio<\/em><\/strong><\/a> every\nSunday at 7 a.m. with me, attorney Dean Weitzman\nof MyPhillyLawyer, on Philadelphia\u2019s Old School 100.3 WRNB, Boom\n103.9 or on Classix 107.9 WPPZ FM. Listen to Court Radio online or on the radio\nevery week for the latest on legal topics and to get answers to your legal\nquestions. In addition to addressing the topical issues of the day, we\u2019ll\nanswer caller questions on a wide range of legal issues.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Florida jury has awarded $8.97 million in damages to the widow of a former fire chief who became a quadriplegic after he swerved his car and crashed on a Florida highway to avoid a collision with a car being driven into his lane by a Domino’s pizza delivery driver. The victim, Richard Wiederhold, was…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[50,63,64,40,51,31,65],"tags":[1747],"class_list":["post-7619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court-radio","category-law-in-the-news","category-law-you-can-use","category-legal-knowledgebase","category-legal-updates","category-motor-vehicle-accidents","category-the-law-and-you","tag-delivery-driver-crash"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/car-accident-1921347_1920.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7621,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions\/7621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}