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A gas station attendant hit by a tow truck accepted an $830,000 settlement of his suit in Middlesex County last Monday. John Sarno was standing in the Mobil Station on Route 27 and Vineyard Road in Edison on June 18, 2003, when a truck owned by Dan Ray Corp. of Colonia struck him. Evidence from the plaintiff showed that the driver was negligent because he turned his head to look at the vehicle he was towing and didn't see Sarno in front of him.

Sarno spent four months in a hospital recuperating from a fractured tibia, a torn rotator cuff, cartilage damage and a head injury, and will never work again. Defense did not return a call, but Parra says the defense gathered evidence that the plaintiff, who worked at the station for 10 years, contributed to the accident by being in the path of the truck. The defense also was prepared to argue that Sarno's inability to work was anxiety-related, not just orthopedic-related.
- Henry Gottlieb, New Jersey Law Journal

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A carpenter injured falling from a scaffold settled for $550,000 during trial on March 8. Pantelis Andriopoulos was at a home construction site in Edgewater on May 7, 2001, when the accident occurred. His employer had been hired by general contractor Assad Daibes & Sons Inc of Edgewater to build a 12 foot high wooden forms for pouring a concrete wall.

Andriopoulos was on scaffolding next to the forms to guide the pouring. A backhoe used by Daibes to pour the cement was not tall enough so workers piled a mound of dirt beneath it, but the back hoe was unsteady and kept bumping into the forms, loosening the studs until the forms collapsed, bringing down the wall and scaffolding.

Faugno says Andriopoulos suffered a displaced femoral fracture of his right leg and a head cut. He still limps. In late 2001, he began having back pain from a bulging disc caused by the limp. He returned to work on light duty in 2002 but stopped last May because of back pain and can no longer do physical labor.
- Mary P Gallagher, New Jersey Law Journal

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A Hunterdon County jury on March 10 awarded a pizza deliveryman $874,000 for leg injuries he suffered when his car was struck by a pickup truck. On Jan 24, 2002 Walid Aboutay a Domino's Pizza employee was headed south on Sergeantsville Road near Flemington when the truck, headed north, tried to pass another car and hit Aboutay's vehicle.

The truck's driver, Matthew Savarino was driving erratically honking his horn and tailgating the car he was trying to pass. The jury found Savarino 100 percent liable for injuries to Aboutay, who had multiple fractures to his right leg and required the insertion of two screws. A worker's compensation lien will reduce the award by $24,000.

(This information was obtained from the New Jersey Law Journal)

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An asbestos-removal worker received a $2.75M settlement on March 10 in an Essex County suit over burns suffered in a workplace accident. On April 13, 2000 Maria Cardona was removing asbestos residue from a ceiling at Hoffmann-La Roche Inc in Nutley when a heating pipe burst, spraying her with 180 degree water and causing burns to her arms, chest, stomach, back and legs.

Cardona is covered with scars, has limited use of her left arm and has not worked since the accident. The suit named building owner Hoffmann-La Roche and Sordoni Skanska Inc of Parsippany, the construction manager on the project, charging they violated federal safety regulations requiring shutoff of utilities at demolition locations. The defendants claimed the job was not subject to those regulations but filed a $2 million offer of judgment. Cardona had sought $3 million.

(This information was obtained from the New Jersey Law Journal)

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A Manahawkin man will receive $7 million as compensation for injuries he received when injured in a plane crash. The parties agreed to the settlement last Wednesday. Wayne King was a passenger in a single engine Beechcraft that crashed on April 28, 2000 during a flight from North Carolina to New Jersey. Due to injuries, he is paralyzed from the midchest down.

The plane crashed after the engine blew apart, possibility due to lack of oil to the piston cylinder. The engine manufacturer, Teledyne Continental Motors Inc., had issued a recall, and Ocean Aire Inc., of Toms River, had performed maintenance work. Fried says that Teledyne's instructions for maintenance were either incomplete or were not followed.

Another theory for the explosion was that exhaust was not properly vented and was diverted back into the engine, causing oil dissipation and drying out, but since the engine blew up, it was not possible to determine the exact cause. Friend also alleged that the pilot, Jack Pizzlato, did not perform preflight checks adequate to ensure that the plane was safe.

(This information was obtained from the New Jersey Law Journal)

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