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....
$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...
$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...
$1.275M Verdict for Man Who Suffered Broken Ankle in Fall on Ice
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on October 8th, 2018
A Chester County man has been awarded a $1.275 million verdict by a Pennsylvania jury after he broke his ankle while trying to walk through an icy parking lot at his apartment building in November of 2014. The victim, Michael G. White, was walking through the parking lot at his home at the Paoli Place Apartments in Paoli when he slipped and fell in the icy parking lot, breaking his ankle, according to an Oct....