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Settlement - $ 12,000,000.00Type of Action: Automobile Accident Injury: Severe spinal cord injury resulting in ventilator dependent quadriplegia Description: The 16-year-old plaintiff was a passenger in a vehicle being operated by a friend, also sixteen years of age. The driver lost control and flipped. The plaintiff sustained a severe spinal cord injury which left her paralyzed from the neck down and dependent upon a ventilator. The defendant's insurance company denied coverage for the crash, asserting the vehicle involved was removed from the insurance policy one month before the crash. Settlement - $ 10,000,000.00Type of Action: School Accident Injury: Brain Injuries Description: A 16 year old teenager suffered a traumatic brain injury during a private school physical education golf class when she was struck in the head by a golf ball hit by another student. The school asked the Court to dismiss the case claiming that the girl had assumed the risk of injury. A federal court judge denied the school’s request because the school had a duty to provide a safe class environment and fact questions existed about whether the school did so. The case later settled for $10 million. Settlement - $ 9,000,000.00Type of Action: Grain elevator explosion Injury: Traumatic Brain Injury Description: A young farmer suffered a severe brain injury in a grain elevator explosion, leaving him in a persistent vegetative state. A settlement was negotiated with the elevator's insurance carrier without a lawsuit. Lawyer Team:
John C Goetz
Settlement - $ 1,250,000.00Type of Action: Automobile Accident Injury: Wrongful Death Description: The case involved an elderly woman who was a passenger in her daughter's car. It was hit head on by a car which had been racing another car and lost control. Settlement - $ 900,000.00Type of Action: Wrongful Death Injury: Injury to Children Description: A construction project contractor piled a shipment of roof trusses in a vacant lot. The trusses were piled one on top of the other in rows. An 11 year old girl and her little brother were playing among the trusses when a pile of trusses fell on her crushing her to death. Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben sued the general contractor, the subcontractor and a government agency which was involved in the building project. Liability and damages were disputed. Jim Schwebel and Jim Ballentine achieved a settlement of $900,000 for the girl's parents and siblings. Lawyer Team:
James R Schwebel
Jury Verdict - $ 419,132.00Type of Action: Automobile Accident Injury: Neck and upper back injuries/Non surgical TMJ dysfunction Description: The case involved a the plaintiff who was rear-ended at the intersection of Hennepin Avenue South at West 22nd Street in Minneapolis by defendant. The force of the collision pushed the plaintiff's car into the stopped vehicle in front of her. Plaintiff's vehicle was a total loss. The plaintiff was removed by back board to the emergency room at Fairview Riverside Medical Center. Settlement - $ 150,000.00Type of Action: Auto Accidents Injury: Herniated disc at the C5-6 level(fusion surgery) Description: The case involved a 32-year-old female nursing student who was rear end by another vehicle when stuck in traffic. Lawyer Team:
William A Crandall III
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