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...
$10.6M Verdict to Woman After Losing Her Arm in a Car Crash
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on October 15th, 2018
A woman whose arm was amputated after the vehicle she was riding in crashed and overturned on a New Jersey Interstate highway in 2015 has been awarded $10.6 million in compensatory damages by a Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas jury. The victim, Shanika Brown, was in the front passenger seat of a minivan being driven by another woman on Interstate 295 in Gloucester County, N.J., in July of 2015 when the minivan driver swerved to...
$10M Settlement to Woman Who Lost Both Legs After Being Struck by Bus
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on September 28th, 2018
A 65-year-old West Orange, N.J., woman who had to have both legs amputated after being struck and crushed by a New Jersey Transit bus in 2016 has reached a $10 million settlement with the transit agency. The victim, Claire Dertouzos, was struck by the bus on May 28, 2016, as she was trying to cross Mount Prospect Avenue at Heller Parkway in Newark, according to a Sept. 25 story by NJ.com. The bus was making a left...
$1M Settlement to Motorcyclist Struck and Injured by Turning Car
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on September 21st, 2018
A motorcyclist who suffered severe leg injuries when he was struck by a turning car as he was riding his motorcycle in Montgomery County, Pa., in 2016 has reached a $1 million settlement with the driver of the car and the driver's employer. The victim, Michael Solow, was riding on Pennsylvania Avenue in Fort Washington on July 27, 2016 when a sedan being driven by Robert Sligh II, struck his motorcycle, according to an Aug....
$242M Verdict to Family of Children Hurt by Seatbacks in Lexus Crash
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on September 17th, 2018
The family of two young children who suffered traumatic brain injuries when the family's 2002 Lexus sedan was struck from behind while sitting in traffic in September of 2016 have been awarded $242.1 million in damages by a Texas jury. The children, Owen Reavis, 3, and his sister, Emily, 5, were severely injured in the back seat of the car when the front seats, where their parents were sitting in the Lexus, were forced backward...