Overservice of alcohol to a minor with a fake ID

$350,000

A young sorority sister with her friends went to a bar in a college town. She used an obviously fake ID to get through the front when the checker hardly took a glance at the ID. While at the bar, she had way too much to drink. She left with her friends near closing time. Not far from the bar, on the way back to their sorority house, the operator lost control and hit a pole. A passenger was thrown from the car and sustained a severe head injury with resulting traumatic brain injury that left her with permanent cognitive deficits. Attorney Goodman commenced suit against the bar and deposed all of the employees on duty that night, the door checker and bouncers, bartenders, waitresses, management and the other girls who had been with her including the drunk driver. At the start of trial, the case was settled on behalf of the injured passenger.