Car Accident Attorney Wins $600K Settlement for Driver Who Was Seriously Injured When His Auto Was Struck by a Municipal Dump Truck
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on May 29th, 2020
A car accident attorney has won a $600,000 settlement for a client who was seriously hurt in 2017 when his car was struck by a municipal dump truck in San Diego, California. The victim, Joshua Reeves, was driving his car westbound in Interstate 8 just after 7 a.m. on Feb. 23, 2017, when a city dump truck crashed into the back of his vehicle, according to a May 13 story by The San Diego Union-Tribune....
Car Accident Lawyer Wins $1.2M Settlement for Injured Woman Whose Car Was Struck by a Car That Had Fogged-Up Windows
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on May 22nd, 2020
A Connecticut woman who was seriously injured when her car was struck in September 2018 by a car that was being operated with fogged-up windows has won a $1.2 million settlement negotiated by her car accident lawyer. The victim, Melissa Ann O’Donnell, 30, was hurt when her Nissan Sentra was struck by another car being driven by Ross Keblish in Fairfield, Connecticut, according to an April 20 story on Law.com. O’Donnell suffered injuries to her...
Car Crash Attorney Wins $310K Settlement for Driver Hurt When Municipal Truck Rear-ends Her Vehicle, Pushing it into Head-on Crash with Another Car
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on May 15th, 2020
A car crash attorney has won a $310,000 settlement for a Sedgwick County, Kansas, driver who was seriously injured when a municipal truck smashed into the back of her car and pushed it headlong into another vehicle in late 2017. Matilda Pruitt was driving in the county on Dec. 26, 2017, when she was rear-ended by a municipal work truck as she was making a left turn from Meridian Street onto 60th Street, according to...
Personal Injury Lawyer Wins $640K for N.J. Woman Injured After Slipping on a Loose Tile and Falling in Apartment Building Hallway
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on May 8th, 2020
A 26-year-old New Jersey woman who broke her ankle after falling in the hallway of her apartment building in 2015 has won a $640,000 settlement in connection with her case. The victim, Jacquelyn Mendoza, 26, slipped on a loose floor tile, which caused her to fall and fracture her ankle in the hallway of her Newark, N.J., apartment building on Dec. 10, 2015, according to a March 27 story on Law.com. Mendoza, who was working...
Truck Accident Injury Attorney Wins $5M Jury Verdict for Family of Child Severely Burned in Car Crash
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on May 1st, 2020
A truck crash attorney won a $5 million jury verdict for the family of a boy who suffered severe burns in 2016 when a tractor-trailer crashed into the rear of a pickup truck he was riding in on a Delaware roadway. The boy, whose identity is being withheld because he is a minor, was in the back seat of a pickup truck that was also occupied by his uncle and aunt when the crash occurred...
Personal Injury Attorney Wins $3M Settlement for Family of a N.J. Child Who was Burned by Hot Water from Overturned Takeout Cup at a Convenience Store
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on April 24th, 2020
The family of a 3-year-old New Jersey child who was severely burned in 2018 when a cup of hot water was knocked over by a convenience store clerk as her mother was paying for her purchases has reached a $3 million settlement with the Wawa store chain. The child and her mother were in a Wawa store in Neptune, N.J., on April 25, 2018, when the clerk accidentally knocked over one of two cups of...
Car Accident Lawyer Wins $2.4M Settlement for Couple Injured in 2017 Bus Crash on the New Jersey Turnpike
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on April 17th, 2020
Two New Jersey motorists who were seriously hurt when the vehicle they were riding in on the New Jersey Turnpike in 2017 was struck by a Lakeland Bus Lines motor coach have reached a $2.4 million settlement with the bus company. The couple, Victor Ibanez, then 42, and Danet Ibanez, then 35, were heading south at mile marker 107.3 in Essex, N.J., toward Newark on Aug. 22, 2017, when the bus crossed two lanes of...
Car Crash Attorney Wins $8.1M Settlement for Woman Who Was Severely Injured in a 2017 Multi-Vehicle Crash in Illinois
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on April 13th, 2020
An Illinois woman who suffered permanent life-altering injuries when the car she was driving in November 2017 in Oak Brook, Ill., was struck by a vehicle speeding at 98 mph will receive an $8.1 million settlement to help provide her long-term care. The victim, Annette Kimmons, was driving her car when it was struck in an intersection by a vehicle being driven by Paul J. Murtagh, who ran a red light while traveling at high...
Car Accident Lawyer Wins $1M Settlement for Family of Man Killed in 2018 Crash by a DUI Driver
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on April 3rd, 2020
The family of a 20-year-old father of two children will receive a $1 million settlement after he was killed in 2018 when his car was T-boned by a drunk driver who had just left a bar in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The victim, Robert Ortiz, died when his car was struck at the intersection of Breck Street and Pittston Avenue in Scranton early on the morning of April 6, 2018, by a car being driven by Noah...