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Settlement – $1,200,000Judge
Court
San Francisco Superior
Attorneys
Plaintiff
Defendant
Experts
Plaintiff
Baijnath Saw
(medical)
Robert A. Blau
(medical)
Moses Taghioff
(medical)
Defendant
Norman Panting
(medical)
George E. Becker
(medical)
Facts
The plaintiff was an employee of a courier service and was stopped for a red light while in a Toyota pick-up truck. The plaintiff was in the intersection preparing to make a left turn. The defendant was driving a 26,000-pound delivery truck and crashed into the rear of plaintiff's vehicle in the intersection. The impact pushed plaintiff's vehicle across the two lanes of oncoming traffic and came to rest against the curb on the opposite side of the intersection.
Injuries
The plaintiff suffered injury to neck (three level interior cervical diskectomy with interbody fusion at C3-4, C5-6, and C6-7. Also, a cervical plating system at C5-6 and C6-7).
Other Information
At a settlement conference, the plaintiff demanded the policy limits of $1 million. The defendant rejected the demand. Later, the defendant disclosed there was an excess policy about which it was previously ignorant. Following the second day of trial, the defendant settled for $1.2 million.
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