Confidential
Settlement – $1,800,000Court
L.A. Superior Burbank
Attorneys
Plaintiff
Defendant
Facts
On Dec. 2, 1996, the plaintiffs were driving a black and white police vehicle northbound Lankershim Boulevard
in North Hollywood. The defendant driver, a telephone technician for defendant company was driving a
company van southbound Lankershim and turned left to enter a driveway. The plaintiffs were on route to a
burglary call without red lights or siren.
Specials in Evidence
$41,519 (male officer); $77,813 (female officer) $66,494 (male officer); $61,660 (female officer) $586,312 (male officer); $506,250 (female officer)
Injuries
The male officer sustained lumbar disc herniation at L4-5, abrasion to forehead, microdiscectomy and scar revision surgery. The female officer sustained internal derangement of right knee and torn ligament with surgery, herniated disc at C4-5 and C6 with two diskectomies, impingement of right shoulder with subacromial decompression surgery.
Other Information
<M>A mediation was held before Michael D. Moorhead resulting in $1.8 million total to both plaintiffs.</M>
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