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Can you tell us about a memorable motor vehicle case you handled?
Can you tell us about a memorable motor vehicle case you handled?
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a memorable
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motor vehicle accident case that i
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handled
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involved a pedestrian who was
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run over by a car i represented the
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pedestrian and he was crossing
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the street um outside of a crosswalk
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and so the insurance company immediately
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denied the claim
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when i went to visit the pedestrian
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my client at the when he was getting
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rehabilitation at a nursing home for his
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injuries
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i visited him and i quickly realized
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that he
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is unable to communicate well he has a
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disability most of his answers
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would ten would just be yes the word yes
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and you couldn’t really explain what
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happened
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and so i knew that if if the only
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version of events would be
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what the defendant driver says that’s a
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big problem
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we’re not we’re not going to get the
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full story so i went out
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to the scene of the accident i looked
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for
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any again any footage is there something
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is there a business nearby
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so i found a bar really close to where
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the collision occurred
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it had a camera pointing to almost
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exactly where the collision occurred
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and i called them and they said they’ve
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deleted
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the footage and i was unfortunate and i
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later found out that the
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the driver of the car actually worked at
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that bar
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and so i thought that was suspicious and
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then i realized well if he’s
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leaving the bar then he wasn’t on the
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main road that the client was
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crossing and therefore um it’s not
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my client’s fault so i needed proof of
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that
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so i obtained the body worn camera
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footage from the
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police officers who responded and that
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was incredibly helpful because i could
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see
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on the footage where my client was laid
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out on the ground how close was he to
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the
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to the sidewalk statements made by the
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the driver that that i wasn’t looking
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when i turned
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this direction i didn’t look in that
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direction and i was coming out of here
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and so the insurance company went from
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completely denying the
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the claim to paying hundreds of
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thousands of dollars to resolve the case
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without litigation
Baltimore, MD personal injury lawyer Ruslan Kondratyuk shares the story of a memorable motor vehicle case he handled. He recalls one of his most memorable motor vehicle accident cases involved a pedestrian who was run over by a car. He represented the pedestrian, who had been crossing the street outside of a crosswalk. Because of that, the insurance company immediately denied the claim, insisting the pedestrian was at fault.
When he visited his client at the nursing home during rehabilitation, he quickly realized the man had a communication disability—most of his responses were limited to the word “yes.” It was clear that relying solely on the driver’s account would not tell the full story. Determined to uncover the truth, he went to the scene of the accident himself to look for any possible video evidence.
Nearby, he discovered a bar with a camera that faced directly toward the crash site. When he contacted them, he was told the footage had already been deleted. Later, he learned that the driver actually worked at that bar—a fact that immediately raised suspicions. He reasoned that if the driver had been leaving the bar, then he wasn’t traveling on the main road where his client was crossing, which could mean the driver—not the pedestrian—was at fault.
To substantiate this, he obtained body-worn camera footage from the police officers who responded to the scene. The video provided crucial details: it showed where the client had fallen, how close he was to the sidewalk, and even captured the driver admitting, “I wasn’t looking when I turned.”
Thanks to this evidence, the insurance company reversed its position—shifting from completely denying liability to paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to resolve the case without litigation.
