Pinnock v. Midway Services
Case Background:
Mr. Langsam represented Jason Pinnock who was injured when a 2500-pound electrical transformer fell on him while being offloaded from a truck at a jobsite in King of Prussia. The contractor that ordered the transformer was Midway Services and it chose not to have a forklift onsite to offload it on delivery despite having one onsite for similar deliveries multiples times the past on the same job. Instead, the tools available for the delivery included a straight truck with a lift gate and a pallet jack. After being initially crushed, others onsite tried to lift the transformer off Mr. Pinnock, but ended up dropping it on him again.
The repaired transformer fell again during an attempted delivery several weeks after Mr. Pinnock was hurt. Midway personnel videotaped the second incident while the second delivery driver struggled to maneuver the equipment with a different liftgate and pallet jack.
Case Result:
Mr. Langsam represented Mr. Pinnock and his family at trial after resolving several claims against some of the other defendants in the case. The Philadelphia jury awarded Mr. Pinnock $8,500,000 after a week-long trial and determined that he was not responsible for the incident.
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