Douglas D. D Suplee

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Shareholder

  Firm Name

  Marshall Dennehey
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Cases & Matters: Obtained a defense verdict after a week-long jury trial in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Burlington County. Doug represented a truck driver (
  his employer) who, after receiving bad delivery instructions from an auto dealership to which he was delivering a vehicle on his car carrier, turned into a neighboring dealer's entrance
  scraped a pole attached to an entrance gate, causing the pole to lean a couple of degrees. He reported the damage to the plaintiff - a Used Car Sales Manager at the dealership. After defendant went on his way, the plaintiff attempted to adjust the clearly misaligned gate using his body weight, causing the gate to break
  come down onto plaintiff's legs. The accident was captured on video. Plaintiff required five surgeries,
  would not budge from the $1,300,000 Offer of Judgment filed on his behalf. Ultimately, Doug convinced the jury that plaintiff's negligent attempt to adjust the gate constituted an intervening superseding cause that broke the chain of proximate causation. The jury agreed. (7-0)
  Obtained a defense verdict in a 2-week jury trial in Middlesex County in a case against a tavern alleged to have violated the New Jersey Licensed Alcoholic Beverage Server Fair Liability Act (aka The Dram Shop Act).