Posted On: January 10, 2006
$1M for Auto Injuries, Herniated Disk
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.
(This information was obtained from the New Jersey Law Journal)
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