DALLAS Dallas-based Hunt Oil Company has agreed to pay $30 million to a Texas woman who was left with a permanent and painful back injury after her car was hit by a worker driving a Hunt Oil pickup truck.
The wreck happened on a Friday night in November 2019 in Odessa. As 53-year-old Barbara Dalby drove her car on State Highway 191, a Ford F-150 owned and operated by Hunt Oil, and driven by a Hunt Oil employee, hit her car head on.
As a result, Dalby, a mother of three, required lumbar fusion surgery and continues to suffer from chronic pain.
Attorneys believe the settlement amount is the highest ever in Dallas County in this type of injury case. The case settled just as jury selection began Tuesday in a Dallas County District courtroom.
“My thanks go out to the 54 potential jurors who showed up yesterday to fulfill their obligation to serve on a jury,” said attorney Brent Goudarzi of Goudarzi & Young in Longview, Texas, who, along with Dallas trial lawyer Charla Aldous of Aldous\Walker, represents the plaintiff. “This settlement on the eve of trial shows that our system of justice works when citizens are active and involved in jury duty.”