Gayland Smith was a UPS driver from Manassa, extremely fine man. Worked for UPS, oh, pushing 30 years. Never missed a day of work, ever. It's the most incredible, you know, that came out at trial. Never missed a day at work. Lady from Texas hit him right out by the theater on highway 160, west of town. Once again, the insurance company said, not much.
The significance in my mind of the Gayland Smith case was that, Gayland had just seen local doctors. He had seen an Orthopedic surgeon, I think in Pueblo, but they couldn't do much in terms of surgery.
But he couldn't work anymore lifting all the boxes, you know, all the bending, stooping, lifting, in and out of his truck. It was over for him and he was 57 years old.
And the insurance company told him, "Well, you didn't see a specialist."...