(WWJ) It's the largest verdict in Montcalm County, Michigan history, according to attorney Geoffrey Fieger.
The high-profile lawyer announced Monday that a jury before Judge Ronald J. Schafer in Montcalm County Circuit Court has awarded more than $4.5 million to his client in the case of the Estate of Robert Densmore vs. Scott Allen Dalrymple.
The jury announced the verdict Friday, after a three-day civil trial.
Densmore, 77, was killed in a crash on June 23, 2017 — on his wife Cora's birthday — when Dalrymple rammed his truck into the back of Densmore's pickup, as he was turning left, and pushing him into oncoming traffic on M-46, near Six Lakes.
Pathologist Werner Spitz M.D., former Chief Medical Examiner for Wayne County, testified that Densmore lived for approximately two to three minutes after the two impacts, and then died, because of blood loss from a torn aorta.
Dalrymple was criminally charged and convicted in the crash.
"I took this case because I was told by many lawyers that the good people of Montcalm County did not value human life the same way it is valued in fancy towns like New York and Los Angeles. I thought that was disgusting and untrue," said Fieger, in a statement. "I came to Montcalm County to prove that a Montcalm County jury values the lives of Montcalm County citizens as much as anywhere in the United States." Fieger's office says he's won more million-dollar cases then any other lawyer in the U.S.





