Car Crash Attorney: The Tragedy of Texting and Driving
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on December 13th, 2019
One life gone. Another life ruined, a prison sentence in the wings. Two families broken apart. All due to one moment of texting and driving. It happens often nowadays, and it can be prevented easily. Here is the latest story. It was Sept. 28, 2016. Dr. Yuwen Wang, 39, a scientist for a fragrance maker, was out walking at 8:20 A.M. in Keansburg, N.J., just as Alexandra Mansonet, 50, was driving by in her black...
Car Accident Lawyer Wins $21.5M Verdict for Severely Injured Motorcyclist
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on December 6th, 2019
A motorcyclist who was severely injured when he was struck by a car that switched lanes without warning on a Los Angeles highway in 2018 has been awarded a $21.5 million jury verdict in a California court. The motorcyclist, Matthew Rada, now 28, of Culver City, California, was riding his motorcycle on Feb. 8, 2018, in the northbound High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane of the San Diego 405 Freeway when he was struck by a...
Car Crash Attorney Wins $8M Verdict for Motorcyclist Injured by Flying Construction Work Zone Barrel
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on November 29th, 2019
A motorcyclist who was seriously injured in 2015 by a flying highway work zone construction barrel that was flung into his motorcycle by a nearby dump truck has been awarded an $8 million damage verdict by a Georgia jury. The motorcyclist, Ronnie Stevens, now 41, was riding his Harley-Davidson Street Glide motorcycle on Interstate 75 in Clayton County, Georgia, on Oct. 12, 2015, when a dump truck smashed into an orange construction work zone barrel...
Car Accident Lawyer Reaches $1.9M Settlement for Severely Hurt Driver Whose Car Was Struck By a DUI Driver
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on November 23rd, 2019
A Connecticut woman who suffered serious injuries in April 2018 when a car being driven by a drunk driver smashed into the side of her car has reached a $1.9 million settlement in the case. The plaintiff, Loreta Vaichus, 58, of Woodbury, Connecticut, was driving her Toyota Corolla on Spring Road in Middlebury, Connecticut, when her car was struck by a BMW being operated by Christina Robinson, a waitress at The Good News Café, who...
Car Accident Lawyer Wins $2.1M Verdict for Man Badly Hurt in Head-On Crash
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on November 8th, 2019
An Allegheny County jury has awarded a $2.1 million verdict to a western Pennsylvania man who was badly hurt and left permanently paralyzed and wheelchair-bound when his minivan was struck head-on by a vehicle that crossed the centerline of a road in June of 2015. Donald Berger, 62, was driving east on Hulton Road in Penn Hills Township just east of Pittsburgh on June 29, 2015, when a westbound car being driven by Caleb Wilson...
Car crash attorney wins $4.6M settlement for driver critically injured in crash with volunteer firefighter responding to an emergency call in 2018
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on November 1st, 2019
A $4.6 million settlement has been reached for a 56-year-old New Jersey woman who was seriously and permanently injured when her car was struck by a vehicle being driven by a volunteer firefighter who was responding to an emergency call in 2018. The victim, Melinda Baker of Mantua, N.J., was driving on Mantua Pike at the intersection of and Parkville Station Road in Deptford on Jan. 26, 2018 when her vehicle was struck by a...
Car Accident Lawyer Reaches $30M Settlement for 2 Children Struck by Car as They Walked to See Holiday Fireworks
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on October 28th, 2019
The families of two boys who were severely injured when they were struck by a Jeep as they walked with their families to a July 4 fireworks display in 2016 in California will receive a $30 million settlement from the city of Morgan Hill, where the accident occurred. Michael Patton, who was 13 at the time of the crash, and his cousin, Mateo Cervantes, who was 6, were struck on Monterey Road as they were...
Car Crash Attorney Wins $6.1M for Driver of Car Broadsided by Truck
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on October 18th, 2019
A 62-year-old California woman who was seriously injured when the car she was driving was violently T-boned by a delivery truck which ran a red light early one morning in 2017 has been awarded a $6.126 million jury verdict in connection with the case. The victim, Chung Wu Hsu, was driving her 1998 Lexus ES300 eastbound on Newhall Ranch Road at Copper Hill Drive in Los Angeles County on July 5, 2017, when her car...
Car Accident Lawyer Wins $32M Verdict for Family of Nurse Killed in Crash with DUI Trucker
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on October 11th, 2019
The family of a 43-year-old hospice nurse who was killed in 2012 when a dump truck being operated by a driver who was under the influence of marijuana smashed head-on into her minivan has received a $32 million verdict from a jury in Anderson County, Kentucky. Marie Garmon was driving her minivan on Sept. 7, 2012, on U.S. 62 in Anderson County when a dump truck operated by Eric D. Jenkins crossed the road's centerline...