A 51-year-old man was awarded $150,000 after suffering serious back injuries in a flatbed truck accident on a Gardena highway. Despite disputes over liability and medical costs, expert testimony proved the injuries were legitimate, securing full compensation for the plaintiff.
Plaintiff, a 51 year old male at the time of the subject accident, was traveling in the HOV lane on a public highway located in Gardena, CA; during which time, the Defendant, who at the time was driving a flatbed truck and traveling in the lane to the right of Plaintiff’s vehicle, unsafely merged into Plaintiff’s lane of travel and severely collided with the right rear passenger side of Plaintiff’s vehicle.
The intensity of the impact has caused Plaintiff thousands of dollars in personal damages. It is manifested that the Defendant took no attention to traffic around him, thereby precipitating a collision with Plaintiff’s vehicle. The Defendant was operating the vehicle in such a reckless manner, in violation of the following California Vehicle Codes: 22107 – “No person shall turn a vehicle from a direct course or move right or left upon a roadway until such movement can be made with reasonable safety and then only after the giving of an appropriate signal in the manner provided in this chapter in the event any other vehicle may be affected by the movement.” 22350 – “No person shall drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent having due regard for weather, visibility, the traffic on, and the surface and width of, the highway, and in no event at a speed which endangers the safety of persons or property.” 23103 – “(a). A person who drives a vehicle upon a highway in a willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property is guilty of reckless driving.”
As a result of his automobile accident, Plaintiff suffered from injuries to his neck, middle back and lower back. Plaintiff’s injuries were significant enough to incur $106,000 in medical expenses. Plaintiff required lumbar spinal pain relieving injections, to where he now has ongoing lumbar spine pain, for which he will require intermittent chiropractic and physical therapy treatment.
Defendant disputed Plaintiff’s claims for injuries and damages. Defendant also disputed the reasonableness and necessity of Plaintiff’s medical treatment. However, through the testimony of expert doctors, it was determined that Plaintiff’s injuries and treatment were reasonable and necessary, considering the severity of the impact. Messrs. Khakshooy and Agarwal were able to recover $150,000 for Plaintiff.
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