The plaintiff was driving her car on an entrance ramp attempting to enter traffic on the Long Island Expressway. Her car was struck on its right side by a tractor-trailer that was driving in the right lane of the highway. Our client suffered serious lower back injuries requiring extensive surgery and eventually a surgery to fuse several vertebra in her lower back. Even though the truck claimed to have had the right of way, at trial in Supreme Court, Queens County, we were able to bring into court the driver of the car that was directly behind our client’s car on the entrance ramp. That witness confirmed our client’s testimony to the effect that no portion of her car had left the entrance ramp at the time it was hit by the truck. As a result, the jury found the truck 100% liable for causing the accident. Following the 100% liability verdict, the case was easily settled for a confidential amount.

A New Jersey man was a passenger in his friend’s car but unfortunately failed to wear his seat-belt. The car was involved in a sideswipe collision with an uninsured vehicle and the passenger was thrown through the windshield, fracturing his nose and injuring his knee. He required multiple surgeries to his nose and arthroscopic surgery to his knee. The friend’s car carried $250,000 in insurance and the case settled for the full amount of the policy.

Our client was a 17 year old high school student who was a rear-seat passenger in a car which failed to successfully negotiate a turn and collided with a tree. As a result, our client suffered a fractured leg requiring surgeries for insertion of steel rod and repair of rod. We recovered the full $100,000 limits of the insurance policy of the owner/operator of the car in which our client was riding. In addition, after an arbitration hearing, we collected the $250,000 underinsurance policy coverage from a policy owned by our client’s father.

Our client was a 36-year old cable TV installer, en route to a job, when his truck collided with another vehicle as they both drove through an intersection in Queens. both drivers claimed they had the green light. The driver of another car in the vicinity claimed that our client had gone through the red light but we questioned this witness’ ability to actually see the lights from his vantage point. Our client sustained a fractured right patella (kneecap) which required surgery. Then, his surgical wound became infected requiring further hospital care and treatment. The opposing vehicle had a limited ($25,000) insurance policy, so in addition, we also brought an underinsurance claim and a malpractice suit for causing the infection. The claims settled for $360,000.

Our client was a 52 year old disabled man who was struck by a car making a left turn while crossing a street in Brooklyn. As a result, he suffered a fractured leg requiring surgery. There was no claim for loss of income because he had not been working. A suit was brought against the owner and driver of the vehicle that struck the plaintiff and we claimed that the driver violated several provisions of the NYS Vehicle and Traffic Law and Motor Vehicle Rules & Regulations of the City of New York, including the requirement to yield the right of way to pedestrians within a crosswalk. The case settled for $360,000.