$1,534,000 settlement to a back seat passenger in a livery vehicle who underwent a lumbar fusion surgery with a revision procedure.
$1,125,000 settlement to a 60 year old man who sustained a type 1 SLAP tear of the shoulder and a cervical fusion surgery as a result of bulging disc at C5-C7.
$600,000 settlement. Subsequent to jury selection to a middle-age woman who was involved in an automobile accident. Plaintiff had two prior automobile accidents injuring some of the parts of her body in issue with the lawsuit. Causation was contested by the defendant.
To a middle age man who fell off of a stoop without a railing who had a history of drug and alcohol abuse. The plaintiff claimed head and spinal injuries in the initial fall. Thereafter, he claimed that he blacked out and drove his car off of the Staten Island Expressway and struck a tree
thereby sustaining numerous other bodily injuries as a result of the head trauma he sustained in the stoop accident that took place approximately 9 months prior to the single vehicle car accident. The defense contended that the subsequent accident was not related to the head injuries from the stoop accident, but were instead related to his past history of 13 concussions relating back to his high school and college sports days and/or his history of drug and alcohol abuse. The available insurance coverage in this case was only $500,000.00.
$290,000 of a $300,000 insurance policy as a result of a trip and fall accident on an unlevel walkway flag that was located between the driveway and the front door. Liability was contested by the defendant as plaintiff lived there and was said to have walked over the 1/3” height differential between walkway flags on a daily basis.
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