Brain Damaged Lawyer Sues Bus Company
The reality of disability from brain injury can be seen in cases where individuals lose their ability to retain employment or function competitively at their job. In cases of professionals like doctors, lawyers, engineers and others, this disability is a sensitive issue.
Cognitive impairments can diminish important aspects of a career. Straying from the cutting edge of ones practice can seriously alter the effectiveness of that practice. Lack of Initiative, insight, and abstract thinking, to name a few of the impairments associated with brain injury, can make former emplo
yment impossible.
For instance, The Louisville Kentucky Courier-Journal and United Press International reported a case of a former lawyer suing a transportation provider in Kentucky for not taking action to prevent a bus crash that left him incapable of practicing law.
Kevin Halbe, a former managing partner for Wyatt Tarrant & Combs in Louisville is suing the Transit Authority of River City for a 2005 traffic accident that left him with a traumatic brain injury that changed his life.
Hable contends TARC officials should have acted to prevent bus driver, Terra Walter, a convicted drug user, from operating the vehicle that smashed into his car.
Walter was fired by the transportation group three times prior to the accident in Louisville for her questionable behavior and Hable's attorneys allege medical tests have shown she was likely high at the time of the accident.
To Hable, the traffic accident completely changed his life. His attempt to gain $6.4 million in lost income plus punitive damages will begin in Jefferson Circuit Court on Tuesday, November 13.
