L. M. v Missouri Highway Commision et al. ($445,000 total arbitration award and Settlement). Client sustained multiple injuries in a highway collision that came about as the result of a traffic melee that unfolded when an eastbound line of vehicles came over a hill and suddenly encountered a slow moving road grader in their path. There were no signs and no flagman warning of the danger posed by this vehicle in the roadway. All of the eastbound vehicles had to brake rapidly. A pickup truck near the back of the line of vehicles crossed the centerline of the highway to avoid colliding with the vehicle ahead of it. The pickup truck struck the client's vehicle head on.