Car Accident Lawyer Wins $7 Million Verdict for Trooper Hurt in Crash When His SUV Was Rear-Ended By a Greyhound Bus on Highway
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on February 8th, 2019
A North Carolina State Trooper who was severely injured when his patrol car was struck from behind as he was parked on the side of a highway responding to an earlier vehicle crash has been awarded a $7 million verdict by a federal jury. The trooper, D.C. Justice, was responding to an earlier crash on eastbound Interstate 40/85 in North Carolina when the bus smashed into his parked Chevrolet Tahoe SUV as he was inside...
Car Crash Lawyer Reaches $500K Settlement for Woman Whose Arm Was Amputated After a Police Car Smashed into Victim’s Car
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on February 2nd, 2019
A woman whose left arm was amputated after an Atlanta Police Department patrol car smashed into the side of her car in February 2018 at an intersection will receive a $500,000 settlement from the city of Atlanta to compensate her for her serious injuries. The victim, Lisa Williams, was driving through the intersection of Peeples Street at Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard in Atlanta on Feb. 21, 2018, when she was T-boned by a police car...
Workplace Accident Attorney Reaches $1.1 Million Settlement for Family of Man Killed in Fracking Construction Site Towing Mishap
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on January 18th, 2019
The family of a 49-year-old delivery driver who was killed in January 2015 when his pickup truck was crushed by a construction vehicle at a fracking work site has reached a $1.1 million settlement with the company whose employee tried to tow the man's truck out of the ditch. The victim, Gregory Jones, 49, was delivering a heater to the fracking site on Guiton Road in Middletown Township, Pa., on Jan. 16, 2015, when his...
Car Accident Attorney Wins $280K Verdict for Seriously Injured Car Crash Victim Whose Car was T-Boned in a Restaurant Driveway, Causing Head, Neck, Back and Rib Injuries
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on January 4th, 2019
A car accident lawyer has won a $280,925 jury verdict for a 60-year-old Massachusetts man who suffered serious head, neck, back and rib injuries in a 2013 car accident when his car was T-boned by another driver. The victim, Kenneth Gilbert, of Connecticut, was hurt on May 1, 2013 when the side of his car was struck by a car being driven by Victoria Pietrzak, who was turning left into the restaurant driveway where Gilbert...
Philadelphia Car Accident Attorney Awards $2,500 College Scholarship to Crash Victim as Part of the First-Ever MyPhillyLawyer Accident Survivor Scholarship
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on December 21st, 2018
Philadelphia's MyPhillyLawyer personal injury and car accident law firm has awarded its first-ever $2,500 MyPhillyLawyer Accident Survivor Scholarship to recognize and support victims of serious car crashes who are continuing to pursue their educational goals. Also eligible to apply for the MyPhillyLawyer Accident Survivor Scholarship are victims of medical errors or other life-threatening incidents caused by negligence. Applicants can be students in law school or college. The scholarship was created in recognition of the many...
$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....