Opinion ID: 1809297
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Heading: Whether Losses for Which Future Damages were Sought were the Proximate Result of the Accident

Text: J.B. Hunt argues that Credeur failed to present substantial evidence that the losses for which Credeur sought future damages were proximately caused by the accident of January 29, 1991. This argument, also, is without merit. Credeur's two physicians testified that the accident aggravated of Credeur's previously asymptomatic spondylitic disease. The evidence tended to show that Credeur had suffered no symptoms from this disease before the accident, but that Credeur was still suffering from a loss of range of motion of the cervical spine at the time of trial. The evidence tended to show that after the accident Credeur suffered a great deal of pain that precluded him from any heavy labor, but that he recovered enough that he attempted to return to work driving a truck. This attempt was unsuccessful and caused further deterioration of his physical condition. The accident was shown to have effectively precluded him from driving a truck for a living.