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$30 Million Settlement for Car Crash Victim: Barbara Dalby’s Legal Victory Against Hunt Oil Co.

$30 Million Settlement for Car Crash Victim: Barbara Dalby’s Legal Victory Against Hunt Oil Co.

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Nishica Srivastava
November 14, 2024
$30 Million Settlement for Car Crash Victim: Barbara Dalby’s Legal Victory Against Hunt Oil Co.

Barbara Dalby v. Hunt Oil Company and Mikael Crosson

Case Background

On August 23, 2021, Barbara Dalby filed a negligence lawsuit against Hunt Oil Company and Mikael Crosson after a serious motor vehicle accident in which she sustained severe and permanent injuries. The case was filed in the 116th Judicial District Court in Dallas County, Texas. Judge Tonya Parker presided over the case. [Case number: DC-21-11344]

Cause

On November 8, 2019, Barbara Dalby, 53, was driving a 2018 Chrysler Pacifica on State Highway 191 in Odessa. It was shortly after 9 p.m., and Dalby had stopped in the inside left turn lane at the intersection of 191 and N. JBS Parkway. Meanwhile, Mikael Crosson was driving a Ford F-150 pickup truck owned by his employer, Hunt Oil Co., heading east on 191. As he passed through the intersection, Crosson swerved left and collided with Dalby’s vehicle head-on.

Injury

After the collision, Dalby was transported by ambulance to the emergency room. She later reported suffering a concussion and disc protrusions at C6-7, L3-4, and L4-5. Dalby claimed these disc injuries led to chronic pain. Eleven days after the accident, she bega

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