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Settlement – $90,000Judge
Court
Riverside Superior
Attorneys
Plaintiff
Defendant
Facts
On March 31, 1994, the plaintiff, a 34-year-old billboard painter, was stopped in his vehicle behind the defendant's stakebed truck at a red light headed westbound on East Grand Boulevard. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant suddenly put his truck in reverse and crashed into the plaintiff's pickup truck. The front of the plaintiff's pickup went under the hydraulic lift at the rear of the defendant's truck. The plaintiff brought this action against the defendant driver based on negligence theories of recovery.
Settlement Discussions
The plaintiff made a $220,000 settlement demand. The defendant made a C.C.P. º998 offer of compromise for $30,000.
Specials in Evidence
$20,666 $22,320 unknown unknown
Injuries
The plaintiff alleged that he sustained the following injuries as a result of the accident: a tear of his left anterior cruciate ligament, with chondromalacia of his left medial femoral condyle requiring arthroscopy of his left knee; and protruding discs in his lumbar spine requiring possible lumbar spine surgery.
Other Information
The award was entered approximately ten months after the case was filed.
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