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2007 REAR-END AUTOMOBILE COLLISION RESULTING IN A TORN ROTATOR CUFF AND TINNITUS (RINGING IN THE EARS). PLAINTIFF WAS OUT OF WORK FOR 3 DAYS, BUT UNDERWENT ROTATOR CUFF SURGERY, AND A BRIEF PERIOD OF PHYSICAL THERAPY. MEDICAL BILLS TOTALED $8,100. SETTLEMENT NEGOTIATIONS WITH DEFENDANT’S INSURANCE COMPANY BROKE DOWN AND THE CASE WAS SUBMITTED TO BINDING ARBITRATION. AFTER A HEARING THE PLAINTIFF WAS AWARDED $103,000. ************************************ PLAINTIFF WAS INJURED WHEN THE CAR IN WHICH SHE WAS A PASSENGER OVERTURNED. PLAINTIFF SUSTAINED SEVERE INJURIES INCLUDING FRACTURED AND HERNIATED DISKS AT L4-5, L5-S1. PLAINTIFF UNDERWENT SUCCESSFUL SURGERY AND REHABILITATION. MEDICAL BILLS TOTALED $160,000. AFTER MONTHS OF NEGOTIATIONS AND ON THE EVE OF FILING A LAWSUIT THE DEFENDANT’S INSURER TENDERED THE POLICY LIMIT IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,000,000. 2008 PLAINTIFF WAS INVOLVED IN A HEAD-ON COLLISION WITH DEFENDANT’S VEHICLE ON THE BOURNE SCENIC HIGHWAY AND SUSTAINED INJURIES INCLUDING 2 BROKEN RIBS, A PELVIC BONE FRACTURE AND A DAMAGED SPLEEN WHICH REQUIRED SURGERY. PLAINTIFF WAS OUT OF WORK FOR THREE MONTHS AND MEDICAL BILLS
TOTALED $60,000. NEGOTIATIONS WITH DEFENDANT’S INSURER DID NOT RESULT IN A
SETTLEMENT AND THE CASE WAS SUBMITTED TO BINDING ARBITRATION. AFTER A HEARING
THE PLAINTIFF WAS AWARDED $294,000.
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