Uploaded August 2016 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
When a pizza delivery driver crashed into a woman on her way home from church, the defense accused her of faking a brain injury. Her attorney, Keenan Nix, needed to demonstrate to a jury the irrefutable evidence of irreversible brain damage, while illustrating how it would affect her cognitive abilities for the rest of her life. Read the full case study: tinyurl.com/hhf7gr8
"The defense theme throughout the trial was, 'This is a lawsuit in search of a brain injury,'" Nix said in the Daily Reporter. "Our theme was 'the defendants are running from the truth.'"
The highest amount the defense would offer was about $220K to pay for the woman’s hospital bills, until three days before trial, when they raised the offer to $1M. "They were happy to talk about resolving the orthopedic injuries” said Nix. “But they totally disregarded the brain injury."
Nix asked us to help animate and illustrate his client’s damages, and compile them into a custom Digital Injury Summary to present his case to a jury.
The result was a $11M verdict for his client, using this animation.
Watch more of our animated legal exhibits:
- Collision Animations: bit.ly/22MTDzg
- Brain Trauma Animations: bit.ly/1WDxinU
- Cardiac Injury Animations: bit.ly/1t5VDpP
- Spinal Injury Animations: bit.ly/1UnNx28
- Birth Trauma Animations: bit.ly/1UDEzQV
- Disease and Illness Animations: bit.ly/1rbL9nA
- Environmental Remediation Animations: bit.ly/1UxeSi4
- Mechanism of Injury Animations: bit.ly
- Medical Malpractice Animations: bit.ly/1UDEEEg
High Impact is the nation's leading provider of animated, illustrated, and interactive legal exhibits. When someone suffers a chatastrophic injury, we help attorneys show the impact of their clients' damages, and the degree of liability. Learn more at highimpact.com or give us a call at 800-749-2184.
When a pizza delivery driver crashed into a woman on her way home from church, the defense accused her of faking a brain injury. Her attorney, Keenan Nix, needed to demonstrate to a jury the irrefutable evidence of irreversible brain damage, while illustrating how it would affect her cognitive abilities for the rest of her life. Read the full case study: tinyurl.com/hhf7gr8
"The defense theme throughout the trial was, 'This is a lawsuit in search of a brain injury,'" Nix said in the Daily Reporter. "Our theme was 'the defendants are running from the truth.'"
The highest amount the defense would offer was about $220K to pay for the woman’s hospital bills, until three days before trial, when they raised the offer to $1M. "They were happy to talk about resolving the orthopedic injuries” said Nix. “But they totally disregarded the brain injury."
Nix asked us to help animate and illustrate his client’s damages, and compile them into a custom Digital Injury Summary to present his case to a jury.
The result was a $11M verdict for his client, using this animation.
Watch more of our animated legal exhibits:
- Collision Animations: bit.ly/22MTDzg
- Brain Trauma Animations: bit.ly/1WDxinU
- Cardiac Injury Animations: bit.ly/1t5VDpP
- Spinal Injury Animations: bit.ly/1UnNx28
- Birth Trauma Animations: bit.ly/1UDEzQV
- Disease and Illness Animations: bit.ly/1rbL9nA
- Environmental Remediation Animations: bit.ly/1UxeSi4
- Mechanism of Injury Animations: bit.ly
- Medical Malpractice Animations: bit.ly/1UDEEEg
High Impact is the nation's leading provider of animated, illustrated, and interactive legal exhibits. When someone suffers a chatastrophic injury, we help attorneys show the impact of their clients' damages, and the degree of liability. Learn more at highimpact.com or give us a call at 800-749-2184.

![$33.3M Settlement: Animated Explosion, Death by Burning
Two brothers burned to death and a third man died a week later after a West Virginia metal processing plant exploded, turning the facility into an enclosed inferno and releasing a fireball that could be seen from miles away. Attorneys at the Fitzsimmons Law Firm asked us to animate the explosion, demonstrate what caused the explosion, and show the horrific suffering the employees endured as they were burned to death. After being presented with the following animations, the Defense settled for $33.3M.
A significant component of this case was that our clients had sustained and suffered pre-death pain and suffering because their deaths, unfortunately, were not instantaneous, said Clayton Fitzsimmons, Esq. So we really wanted to use High Impact to create an animation that would allow viewers to step into the shoes of our clients so they could fully understand the agony our clients went through as they suffered and died.
Liability in this case centered around Zirconium, a metal that can be highly flammable, but only in powder form. The Defendant would receive Zirconium metal in the form of chunks, and then process it by grinding the chunks into a powder form, which was stored in mass quantity in giant, open tubs. The Defendant also chose to install a fire suppression system that used water, which would intensify the Zirconium fire after it ignited.
The day of the tragedy, a metal blender used to process Zirconium had been having mechanical problems that had not been adequately repaired, and metal-to-metal contact had been producing sparks. According to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, a spark ignited the Zirconium powder inside, which lofted the burning metal dust particles from the blender and ignited other tubs of Zirconium throughout the plant. As employees were engulfed in a wall of flames, the sprinkler system began fueling the flames with water, intensifying the inferno.
Two brothers burned to death inside the plant, but one employee managed to make it outside, where first responders found him laying on the ground, covered in flames, with skin and muscle tissue burning off his body. He would die in the hospital about a week later.
When the EMTs arrive, the scene is horrific. All his skin, even his muscle tissue had been burned, and he lived for probably a week after that, said Mark Colantonio, Esq. They did everything they could to make him as comfortable as possible, but it was just a terrible injury - about the worst you could ever have. In fact, I remember interviewing one of the doctors who had treated [the Plaintiff] at a very significant burn center in Pittsburgh, and she said it was one of the most horrific injuries she had ever seen in her practice of medicine.
Clayton Fitzsimmons, Esq., and Mark Colantonio, Esq., needed to maximize their leverage heading into mediation by showing the Defense they were prepared with a powerful presentation that would leave an unforgettable impact on jurors. They tasked our Forensic Team with building the following animations.
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