Over the years, Golomb & Honik has achieved outstanding results in the most challenging highway design accidents. These demanding cases involve the many complications of any motor vehicle or trucking case—plus the many engineering intricacies that go into road design. Poorly designed roads can result in water ponding, excessively icy conditions, poor visibility, dangerous intersections, and more. Read more about Golomb & Honik's handling of such cases here:

• $1 Million in Automobile Collision as a Result of Road Design Defect Driving to her daughter's recital one evening, plaintiff, a then 41-year old mother of two, was operating her automobile in rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania. At approximately the same location, a driver of a pick up truck was traveling in the opposite direction on the same roadway. As both vehicles entered a curve on the roadway, the other drive briefly lost control and in doing so his front right tire went off the edge of the roadway. As he attempted to get the vehicle back onto the roadway, the vehicle lurched to his left, crossed the double-yellow dividing lines and struck plaintiff's vehicle head on causing serious and disabling injuries.
   
  Golomb & Honik lawyers filed suit and in the process of discovery learned that the drop off at the accident location was in excess of eleven (11) inches in spots along the shoulder of the roadway in violation of Commonwealth law and, additionally, learned that a private contractor had completed repaving the roadway in question just three weeks prior to the subject accident.
   
  After exhaustive discovery in which more than twenty (20) depositions were taken, and after several days of settlement negotiations with a number of defendants, the case settled for $1 Million.
• Maximum available insurance recovered for aneurysm resulting from motor vehicle accident. A man and his wife were struck and injured in a seemingly conventional two car motor vehicle collision. Eight months following the accident the husband-driver suffered an aneurysm of his subclavian artery that led to an occipital stroke. Golomb & Honik lawyers filed suit and alleged that the aneurysm and resulting complication were all the result of the original motor vehicle accident.
   
  Despite substantial opposition to Golomb & Honik's theory of liability in which the defense employed several medical experts who denied the causal relationship between the aneurysm and the motor vehicle accident, Golomb & Honik succeeded not only in establishing medical causation for its client but secured a settlement of all of the available insurance benefits for a total settlement of $335,000.00.
• Confidential Settlement in Fatal Intersection Accident Golomb & Honik successfully represented the estates of two vehicle occupants tragically killed at an intersection not properly protected by four-way stop signs. Investigation and discovery in the case revealed that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation had undertaken a study of an adjoining intersection, less than a half mile away, and found design justification to erect a four-way stop sign. Despite the fact that the intersection in which these occupants were killed was identical in all respects and clearly required the erection of a four-way stop sign, the Department of Transportation inexplicably erected four-way controls at one intersection and not the other. A significant confidential settlement was reached on behalf of the estates.
• Confidential Settlement in Catastrophic Injury Accident While attempting to negotiate a curve to the left, a New Jersey driver lost control of his vehicle, exited the roadway, and struck a tree. He suffered extensive orthopedic and neurological injuries that required a two-month hospital stay. A pre-litigation investigation conducted by Golomb & Honik attorneys discovered that there had been at least 13 similar incidents in a three-year period preceding the accident—all occurring within 200 yards of the accident location. Engineers hired by Golomb & Honik determined that there was a design defect in the highway that created a "pooling" effect during inclement weather, making the roadway exceedingly slippery. Additionally, it was determined during discovery that the guardrail at the curve in question had been taken down in a previous accident; the replacement was six feet shorter than the previous guardrail. The case settled confidentially just prior to jury selection.