Posted On: May 17, 2006 by Richard Console

$850,000 Disk Injuries in Car Accident

An Elizabeth man agreed last Tuesday to an $850,000 settlement for neck and disk injuries sustain in an automobile crash.

On June 20, 2002, Jay Probst was driving in the right lane on north Avenue in Scotch Plains when he was hit by another car attempting to make a right turn from the left lane.

Probst injured his neck, suffer two herniated disks and had two operations to remove a disk and fuse vertebrae with bone and plates. Now 33, he cannot return to his job as a utilities engineer for Lord and Taylor.

Probst sued the other car's driver whose insurer is Allstate Insurance Company.

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