May 19, 2005

$577,000 for Truck Accident Injuries

A trucking company paid $577,000 on May 10 to a Marlton man for injuries allegedly suffered in an automobile collision. On March 20, 2001, Brian Baldwin, driving a pickup truck on Crescent Road in Voorhees, was broadsided by a dump truck that went through a red light on Route 73. Later that day, Baldwin went to the emergency room of Virtua West Jersey Hospital complaining of neck and shoulder pain. He was X-rayed and sent home with a pain killer and muscle relaxant, but his regular doctor later diagnosed herniated neck discs.

After two years of manipulation, physical therapy, and epidural injections, his discs at C-5-C6 and C6-C7 were fused and a metal plate and screws were inserted. Baldwin still has some pain and limited neck motion. The dump truck was owned by Bogey's Trucking of Brooklawn and driven by its employee.
- Mary P Gallagher, New Jersey Law Journal


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March 29, 2005

$830,000 for Truck Injuries to Gas Station Attendant

A gas station attendant hit by a tow truck accepted an $830,000 settlement of his suit in Middlesex County last Monday. John Sarno was standing in the Mobil Station on Route 27 and Vineyard Road in Edison on June 18, 2003, when a truck owned by Dan Ray Corp. of Colonia struck him. Evidence from the plaintiff showed that the driver was negligent because he turned his head to look at the vehicle he was towing and didn't see Sarno in front of him.

Sarno spent four months in a hospital recuperating from a fractured tibia, a torn rotator cuff, cartilage damage and a head injury, and will never work again. Defense did not return a call, but Parra says the defense gathered evidence that the plaintiff, who worked at the station for 10 years, contributed to the accident by being in the path of the truck. The defense also was prepared to argue that Sarno's inability to work was anxiety-related, not just orthopedic-related.
- Henry Gottlieb, New Jersey Law Journal


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