In the early morning hours of Friday, March 5, 2010, a bus operated by Tierra Santa Tours, Inc. rammed another vehicle, crossed the center line and rolled over killing six and injuring sixteen in Arizona. The bus was transporting passengers on its trip from Mexico to Los Angeles. The crash occured on interstate 10 in Pinal County, south of Phoenix. Federal investigators have determined that the California bus company was operating the bus illegally because it didn't have the authority to operate over state lines.
The attorneys at Cavanagh Law Group have decades of experience handling transportation negligence cases in Illinois and around the country. Tim Cavanagh and Matt Rundio, partners at the firm, have teamed up to win numerous record setting verdicts. In Velarde v. Canadian National, the lawyers were the lead attorneys in winning a $55 million dollar verdict in a train/car crash. The verdict was recognized by the National Law Journal as one of the top 100 verdicts in the nation in 2002. In 2009, the lawyers obtained a $13.7 million wrongful death verdict in Czapski v. Maher. Cavanagh has also obtained several record setting settlements including $9.1 million in Ajmeri v. Illinois Central , $4.1 million in Barnes v. Berry Electric Company and $4.5 million in Taylor v. Daimler.
