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A waste disposal company agreed on March 28 to pay $80,000 to the estate of an apartment resident who died of complications after falling from a trash container platform. The settlement, the second in the case, brings the recovery to $480,000.

Patricia Whyte fell from a broken concrete platform and fracturer her ankle after she threw her garbage in a container at apartments owned by Garden Homes Inc on Dec 3, 2003. Ten days later, Whyte died of a blood clot caused by the fracture. The suit claimed that the Disposal company and apartment complex were liable for not repairing the platform.
-Henry Gottlieb, New Jersey Law Journal

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A motorist who suffered back injuries in a Lincoln tunnel collision settled his personal injury suit on March 24. Anthony Signona was stopped in heavy tunnel traffic en route to New York on January 6, 2004 when a commercial van hit his pickup truck from behind. He suffered two herniated discs in his neck and one in his lower back.

A foreman for an electrical contractor, Signona lost a year of work and , now 42, has limited range of movement. The suit was filed in Monmouth County against the van's owner.

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

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A Passaic County jury awarded $1.2 million on March 30 to a woman who lost a kidney when a surgeon cut through a renal artery during removal of a urinary tract blockage. Doris Falcon alleged that Dr. Daniel Rice failed to map out her veins and arteries before the June 2002 surgery at General Hospital Center. The severing of the artery cut off blood to her left kidney and caused internal bleeding and extensive scarring.

Last year, the case ended in a no cause but Superior Court Judge Anthony Graziano who presided at both trials, set aside the verdict because he agreed with Konray that jurors may have been misled by a defense graphic during closing. An appeals court upheld that decision. Rice contended that the severed artery was small than normal and that Falcon had previous kidney scarring. Rice also said he was using a new piece of equipment and failed to read instructions that recommended a CAT scan or ultrasound to map out blood vessels.

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A Bergen County jury on March 30 awarded $1.2 million to a heart-attack victim, finding that proper preventive treatment was not timely given. An angiogram performed on May 9, 2000 showed that Richard Ihde had a 90 percent blockage of this coronary artery. Nevertheless, his doctor released him and told him to come back in eight days for an angioplasty.

Ihde suffered a heart attack that night, which would have been prevented had Dr. Cary Hirsch placed a stent in the artery right away or admitted Ihde to the hospital to do the procedure the next day. Because of the heart attack, Ihde can no longer work at a $50,000 a year job that required him to lift heavy boxes. The jury awarded $180,000 for pain and suffering, $257,000 for past and future income and $200,000 to satisfy a per quod claim.

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The parents of a girl born with cerebral palsy, allegedly due to oxygen deprivation during birth, accepted a $1.5 million settlement on March 28. During labor at Trinitas Hospital in Elizabeth, Bernadette Frew experienced erratic blood pressure and went into cardiac arrest. Her daughter Jessica was deprived of oxygen for about 10 minutes and suffered brain damage. Now 4 and a half years old, she cannot speak or walk.

The suit alleged that nurses Kathryn Gill, Aida Farnaso, and Corazon Tinanan failed to ensure that enough oxygen was provided. The Hackensack couple accepted $1 million last year from carriers for the physician who performed the Caesarean section.

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Sophia Cramer of Union received a $500,000 settlement on March 13 for injuries that she sustained when a car hit her as she walked across a street. She was struck by Carl Laggren Jr. while crossing Morris Avenue in Union on October 8, 2002. An eye witness, James LaCorte, said that she was visible and Laggren made no attempt to stop or slow down.
Cramer endured five surgeries for fractures in her right foot and leg, femur, and pubic bone. After these operations, Cramer now has one leg shorter than the other which disables her from walking correctly.

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

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John Kozarski of Moorestown, suffered neck injuries, shoulder injuries and back injuries in a five-car pileup and agreed on March 15 to a $665,000 settlement. The accident occurred on June 1, 2002 on Route 130 in Cinnaminson, New Jersey, where a car suddenly became disabled in the center lane, causing four cars behind him to collide.
The 49-year-old environmental drill worker needed surgeries to remove disc herniations and can no longer do physically demanding work. Kozarski was awarded by three defendants’ insurance companies.

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

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