In addition to economic and non-economic damages, an injured person is entitled to claim punitive damages against a drunk driver for their reckless conduct. Punitive damages are designed to punish the defendant and serve as a deterrent to drunk driving.
- Steve Wahlberg
According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, over 16,000 people were killed last year due to alcohol related accidents in the United States alone. According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, approximately 500,000 Americans are injured each year as a result of drunk drivers. The lawyers at Hillyard, Wahlberg, Kudla & Sloane, LLP, have a long history of aggressively pursuing claims against drunk drivers and have received over $4 million in verdicts and settlements in the last seven years against drunken drivers or companies that employ them.
- Steve Wahlberg