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A man injured in a three vehicle accident on the New Jersey Turnpike settled his Ocean County suit on Jan 5 for $625,000. On March 3, 2004, Peter Bowman was at the Exit 11 toll plaza when one car struck the rear of another which in turn rear-ended his pickup truck. Bowman suffered back injuries that required him to undergo a laminectomy and fusion at L4-5. Now, he still suffers chronic pain and, unable to return to work as a supervisor for an environmental remediation company, has taken a less-demanding, lower paying job.

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

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An Essex County judge on Jan 6 approved a $1.2 million settlement for a teenage pedestrian whose pelvis was crushed when a car struck her while she was crossing a street. The accident occurred on Park Street in Montclair on Jan 10, 2005. Lucy Phillips fractured her sacrum and femur, suffered a degloving of her right thigh and underwent lumbar fusion, placement of a plate and screws in her leg and attachment of an external fixator to stabilize her pelvis.

Now 14, she limps and faces the possibility of back problems and impaired fertility. Under the settlement, Phillips' father will receive $47,018 for medical expenses. The rest will fund a structure.
- Mary P Gallagher, New Jersey Law Journal

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A Sussex County jury awarded $1.065 million on Jan 13 to a woman for a herniated disk suffered in a head-on car accident. On Oct 16, 2000, Elaine Fienhals' car collided with another that had run a stop sign on Route 94 in Hardyston. The defense conceded liability. Feinhals has trouble bending and chronic pain but still manages a Sparta dry cleaning business.

The other car's driver, Thelma Aumick, was insured by Allstate Insurance Co., which offered $7,500 and turned down both an arbitrator's $50,000 recommendation and a $45,000-$6,500 high-low proposal before trial, adding that the award structure has not been determined.

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