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Nebraska Couple Awarded Nearly $11.5 Million in Damages in Civil Case Over 2020 Crash

A Webster County jury on Friday awarded a Red Cloud couple nearly $11.5 million in damages at the end of a civil trial over the husband’s injuries in a crash where an overloaded semitrailer ran into the back of his backhoe, seriously injuring him.

Michael McCartney lost his right leg below the knee and his left foot as a result of the collision May 5, 2020, on a one-lane bridge under construction along U.S. 136, according to his lawyer, Michael F. Coyle.

That same year, he and his wife, Sharon McCartney, sued Lenard Zurcher, Scott Kort of Blue Hill and Kort’s trucking company.

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