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Macie Lesto, a 28-year-old maintenance worker of the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey, will receive $350,000 for injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident on September 1, 2001. Lesto was driving on Route 35 in Middletown when he was hit by a car entering the roadway. His injuries included a broken right leg and right shoulder, as well as knee injuries which required surgery. The grant was awarded accordingly to his injuries as well as his inability to work overtime. The settlement was approved by Judge Edward Seaman on April 24, 2006.
~Michael Booth, New Jersey Law Journal

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Miguel Oyola, of Medford, was struck by a car on April 14, 2003, as he was stopped waiting to turn into his apartment complex. He fractured his right ankle, which required a plate and screws and six surgeries to repair, and lost most of the skin on it as well.

Oyola had obtained a license to drive tractor-trailers and was looking for employment. Now, due to his recent disability, he is unable to shift the gears and has taken up a job as an electrician’s assistant. The two insurance companies that covered the driver, Doris Pullen, argued in whether she was an independent agent or a Prudential Fox employee.

The settlement was reached for $630,000 from PMA and Hanover.
- Michael Booth

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A Mercer County Judge on Sept 7 awarded $800,000 to a motorcyclist and his passenger wife on their underinsured motorist claims. Michael Pizzullo and his wife Dorothea were riding on Nottingham Way in Hamilton on May 16, 1998, when they were struck by an oncoming auto turning left and thrown from the motorcycle.

Michael required arthroscopic knee surgery and dorothea required an anterior cervical disc fusion and neither has been able to return to their jobs. The other driver, Anthony Mason, was indicted on two counts of assault by auto, but he died before trial of causes unrelated to the accident. The Pizzullos received $200,000 from Mason's policy.

The Pizzullos own insurance company, New Jersey Manufacturers, offered $500,000 in underinsured motorist coverage minus the $200,000 from Mason's policy. The Pizzullos said an agent wrongly told them they would receive the same coverage by keeping Dorothea's car under her husband's policy.
- Charles Toutant, New Jersey Law Journal

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