$2.1 Million Settlement Reached By Philadelphia Car Accident Attorney for Man Who Suffered Traumatic Brain Injury When Thrown from a Car in Crash with Truck
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on December 14th, 2018
A 65-year-old Georgia man who was thrown from a car in a crash on I-95 in Bensalem in September 2016 has reached a $2.1 million settlement with the trucking company whose driver caused the crash. Nagesh Roy was a passenger in the car when it was struck and pushed into a guardrail by a truck that was merging into the left lane, according to a Nov. 21 story from The Legal Intelligencer. The car, which...
Truck Accident Lawyer Helps Victim Get $2.5M Crash Settlement After He Was Seriously Injured When He Was Struck by a Winter Storm Sand Truck
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on December 7th, 2018
A Long Island, N.Y. man who was seriously injured when a box truck he was driving was struck by a municipal snowplow and sanding truck in 2013 has reached a $2.5 million settlement with the local government where the crash occurred. The victim, Danny J. Miller, was driving his work box truck on Long Beach Road at West Windsor Parkway in Hempstead, N.Y., on Feb. 3, 2013, when a Hempstead town employee drove a snowplow...
Wrongful Death Attorney Gets $3 Million Settlement for Family of Woman Killed at Intersection Which Had a Missing Stop Sign
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on November 30th, 2018
The family of a 32-year-old Illinois woman who was killed in 2013 in a car crash when her vehicle collided with another car at an intersection where a stop sign was missing has reached a $3 million settlement in the case. The victim, Sarah Kamp, who was pregnant and a language arts teacher at Polo High School in Stephenson County, Ill., at the time of the crash, had just driven through the intersection of Montague...
Lawyer Helps Seriously Injured Pedestrian Involved in a Car Accident While Running
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on November 29th, 2018
A Michigan family has reached a $4.5 million settlement with a high school track coach who allegedly told their son and another track team member to cross a road against a pedestrian signal in September 2011 during a team practice. The family's son, Kersch Ray, who was a freshman at Chelsea High School when the incident occurred, was severely injured when he was struck by a car as he crossed Freer Road at Old U.S....
Hiring A Car Accident Attorney Yields $100K Settlement for Family of Man Killed in Car Crash
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on November 28th, 2018
The parents of a 20-year-old Missouri man who was killed in August of 2016 when his car was struck head-on by another driver has reached a $100,000 settlement in a wrongful death case filed by the family. The victim, Graden Lovelace, of New Haven, Mo., was driving eastbound on U.S. 50 near the Business 50 West junction in Moniteau County when his car was struck by a car being driven by Joshua F. Blankenship of...
Truck Accident Attorney Gets Settlement for Family After Woman Killed by Fire Truck
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on November 27th, 2018
The family of an 86-year-old Ohio woman who was killed when her car collided with a fire truck in Columbus, Ohio, in 2013 has reached a $410,000 wrongful death settlement with the city of Columbus. The victim, Elvyra T. Glenn, 86, died a week after her car and a Columbus Division of Fire truck collided at Brice and Refugee roads on Nov. 12, 2013, according to a story by The Columbus Dispatch. The victim's son,...
$3M Verdict to Truck Driver Who Was Severely Injured by Oncoming Truck
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on November 2nd, 2018
A 49-year-old Florida dump truck driver whose vehicle was struck by an oncoming dump truck in July of 2016, causing serious injuries that left him unable to work, has been awarded $3.38 million in damages by a Florida jury. Joel Capote, who owned his own trucking company until the crash, suffered multiple fractures to his leg, spine and face as well as facial cuts, all of which have required multiple surgeries and other care, due...
$1.5M Settlement in Death of a Woman in 2014 DUI Car Crash in N.J.
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on October 26th, 2018
The owners of a now-closed New Jersey bar will pay a $1.5 million settlement to the estate of a 26-year-old New Jersey woman who died in a 2014 DUI car crash after her boyfriend got drunk at the bar and drove her away in her car. The victim, Tiffany Soto, of Howell, N.J., died early on the morning of April 20, 2014, after her boyfriend, Edwin Martinez, drove away from the tavern after getting into...
$28M Settlement to Woman Paralyzed in Highway Barrier Crash in 2013
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on October 19th, 2018
A 20-year-old Washington state woman has reached a $28 million settlement with the state's Department of Transportation after being paralyzed from the chest down in 2013 when the vehicle she was riding in smashed into a concrete highway pillar that lacked a guardrail or other safety barrier. Skylar Seward, who was 15 at the time of the crash on Interstate 5 near DuPont in Pierce County, was seriously injured when the car smashed into a...