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While driving on Interstate 80 East in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, a police officer was rear-ended by a box truck. The officer hired Davis, Saperstein & Salomon, P.C. Partner Steven Benvenisti to represent him in his lawsuit against the trucking company. After personal injury attorney Steven Benvenisti proved that the driver had been negligent in his failure to drive carefully, our client won a $725,000 settlement.
The firm’s client was traveling along I80 in his Honda Civic when traffic slowed. He stopped his vehicle when a Ryder box truck rear-ended him. The impact caused the client to rear-end the vehicle in front of him, so his automobile suffered both rear and front-end damage. The client was taken by ambulance to Meridian Health in Hackensack, New Jersey.
The truck driver’s negligence caused the officer to suffer injuries to his neck, including disc herniations and annular tears in his cervical spine. The officer also developed cervical radiculopathy. He underwent different types of conservative treatment, including two cervical epidural injections and months of physical therapy, and he may require future surgery to treat his spine. Davis, Saperstein & Salomon, P.C. hired medical experts to author narrative reports proving the permanent nature of our client’s injuries. Their reports helped show our client’s entitlement to financial compensation for his loss of income, medical bills, and pain and suffering.
Davis, Saperstein & Salomon, P.C. Partner Steven Benvenisti sued the truck company in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Bergen County, and secured our client a $725,000 out-of-court settlement.
Settlements are often limited by the total available insurance coverage. Insurance company adjusters and their lawyers often defend cases by claiming that a client was negligent and could have avoided being injured by arguing comparative negligence on the part of an injured client; or that their pain and suffering was caused by pre-existing medical conditions or prior injuries. Despite those defenses, the Davis, Saperstein & Salomon, PC lawyers won their client’s injury claim. Each client’s case is unique. Results may differ because of different facts, circumstances, and available insurance coverage.
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Medical Glossary
Annual tear: A fissure that occurs in an intervertebral disc as a result of spine degeneration.
Cervical radiculopathy: Compression of the spinal nerve that causes numbness and tingling in the cervical spine.
Cervical epidural injection: Epidural steroid injections (ESI) deliver anti-inflammatory steroids through a needle to the area that hurts. The steroid works to calm the irritated nerve causing the pain and swelling, and the relief usually lasts for three months or more.
Disc herniation: Occurs when the exterior of a disc cracks and its nucleus pushes into the spinal canal and irritates surrounding nerves.
