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Top Verdicts & SettlementsType of Action: Product LiabilityInjury: Brain Injuries Description: This case involved a 19-year-old young man who was working in a local gas station in rural Minnesota. The trial was one of the longest jury trials for a single injured plaintiff in Minnesota history. This major product liability case was appealed all the way to the United States Supreme Court, which ultimately upheld the verdict as reduced by the Minnesota Supreme Court. The result was not only a successful recovery for the plaintiff, but also established legal rights for protection of the public and those injured by defective products. In 1988, the Minnesota Supreme Court reduced the original verdict to $8,200,000.00 as follows: $3,700,000.00 compensatory damages and $4,500,000.00 punitive damages. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: 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. Type of Action: Grain elevator explosionInjury: 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. Type of Action: Semi Tractor -Trailer AccidentInjury: Traumatic Brain Injury Description: A 35-year-old mother and wife suffered brain damage and the loss of one leg as a result of a collision with a semi tractor-trailer which pulled out onto a highway in a thick fog. Pretrial investigation revealed that the truck driver had been warned shortly before the accident not to drive until the fog lifted. Type of Action: Medical MalpracticeInjury: Brain Injuries Description: This case involved a recovery for a victim of medical malpractice. The plaintiff, an Army veteran, went to a hospital in Southern Minnesota reporting that he had blacked-out while driving his car. Investigation revealed a large aneurysm (a weakening in the wall of the blood vessel) in his brain. Because he had no health insurance, the plaintiff went to the Veteran's Hospital in Minneapolis. There, investigation confirmed the presence of the aneurysm. The decision was made to undertake surgery. Surgery was scheduled for a Monday morning, but when the plaintiff arrived at the hospital on Sunday afternoon, he was told that no one knew anything about the scheduling of the surgery; despite the fact the nurse's notes specifically reflected that Plaintiff was to return that day for preparation for surgery. The plaintiff was sent home, with instructions to return the next morning to meet with the surgeon. Plaintiff and his family arrived at 10:00 a.m., and were not seen by the surgeon until 5:00 p.m. At that time, the Neurosurgical resident informed him that she had no idea why he was there, that surgery had not been scheduled, and he should go home and wait to hear from them. Five days later the aneurysm ruptured, and the plaintiff was profoundly brain damaged. Type of Action: Premise LiabilityInjury: Quadriplegic Description: The case involved an award for a high school student made quadriplegic in a theatre accident. Type of Action: Semi Truck AccidentInjury: Brain Injury and Neck Injury Description: This jury verdict was for a 44 year-old farm wife who suffered a closed head injury and neck fusion in a tractor/semi accident. Type of Action: Product LiabilityInjury: Paraplegic Description: The case involved a settlement in a product liability action on a road roller for a college student working a summer job on a road construction crew Type of Action: Semi tractor-trailer AccidentInjury: Traumatic Brain Injury Description: The case involved a 47-year-old woman who was a passenger in a van that was rear ended by a semi tractor-trailer, in Orlando, Florida. Type of Action: Airplane AccidentInjury: Traumatic Brain Injury Description: The case involved a 21-year-old woman who was a passenger on Singapore Airline when it crashed on take off. She was pushed out of the back of the crashed airplane seconds before it was totally consumed in flames. Type of Action: Semi Truck AccidentsInjury: Broken neck at C1, Brown- Sequart spinal cord injury Description: The case involved a 23-year-old single woman who was struck by a pick-up truck towing a loaded trailer, which drove through a red light at a highway intersection in Zimmerman, Minnesota. Type of Action: Semi-Tractor Trailer AccidentInjury: Traumatic Brain Injury Description: The case involves a 46 year old man whose vehicle was struck by a semi tractor trailer that crossed over into his lane of traffic. The plaintiff was hospitalized for 2 weeks and unable to return to work because of his injuries. Type of Action: Semi Truck AccidentInjury: Broken Bone Description: The case involved a 58-year-old real estate broker, was on his way to his office, North of Isle, MN, when he stopped to help a disabled vehicle on the roadway. Weather conditions were snowy. When he was struck by the defendant semi tractor/trailer. Type of Action: Semi tractor-trailer AccidentInjury: Massive Orthopedic and Internal Injuries Description: The case involved a 17-year-old man who was run over by a garbage truck. He suffered massive orthopedic and internal injuries including multiple, compound fractures of his legs and a crushing injury to his pelvis. His urethra was obliterated and his colon lacerated. He had a colostomy, which has been reversed. He has undergone several urologic surgeries and dilations. He is able to urinate however he also must self-catheterize. The liability issue involved negligence on the part of the driver and direct claim against Waste Management for negligent hiring, negligence entrustment, and negligent supervision. Type of Action: Pipeline Explosion/BurnInjury: Wrongful Death Description: A pipeline explosion in a residential neighborhood resulted in the burn deaths of a mother and daughter. Suit was brought against the pipeline company on behalf of the surviving sister and husband. Type of Action: Construction AccidentsInjury: Neck injury with nerve damage requiring spinal surgery Description: This case involved an electrician who brought suit against two subcontractors and the general contractor when he was injured on the job site by a falling pipe. Type of Action: Product LiabilityInjury: Brain Injury Description: The case involved an 18-year-old young man who was a passenger in a friend's car when it struck one of two horses that suddenly appeared on a dark country road. The weight of the horse collapsed the passenger side of the car, causing a significant head injury which resulted in blindness. Subsequent investigation indicated that the horse had escaped from a pasture, which was delineated by two strands of Baygard HV Electric Fence Tape. The tape was not fit to be used as a permanent fence to restrain horses. Type of Action: Premise LiabilityInjury: Spinal Cord Injury Description: The case involved a settlement for a 66 year-old homemaker who became a quadriplegic in a trip and fall accident at a shopping mall. Type of Action: Pedestrian AccidentsInjury: Death Description: The case involved a 50-year-old woman who was walking down a street in downtown Rochester. When the defendant driver, who was drinking coffee and eating a doughnut lost control of his truck and went up on the sidewalk and struck and killed the woman. Type of Action: Medical Malpractice / Auto AccidentInjury: Hip dislocation Description: The case involved a 15-year-old young man who was initially injured in a motor vehicle collision. When brought to the emergency room, there was a misdiagnosis regarding injuries to the hips, which resulted in further significant injuries and damages ultimately leading to bilateral hip replacements. Type of Action: Pedestrian AccidentInjury: Death Description: A Woodbury family whose infant daughter was killed when she and her grandmother were struck as they crossed Radio Drive. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Daughter - fractures and head injury with personality change, Death of her unborn son, Mother - fracture and head injury. Description: The case involved a woman and her pregnant daughter who were injured by a careless truck driver. Type of Action: Animal AccidentInjury: Loss of Fingers Description: The case involved a 4-year-old boy who had fingers on his dominant hand bit off by a horse while visiting a riding stable. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Severe orthopedic injuries Description: A young woman suffered severe orthopedic injuries in an automobile collision with a drunk driver. The driver had inadequate insurance, but his employer was found liable because he was returning from a golf club where he had made arrangements for a social event sponsored by his employer, and was therefore legally considered to be on the job at the time of the accident. Type of Action: Semi Truck AccidentInjury: Spinal Cord Injury Description: The case involved an award for a business executive who suffered a neck injury which resulted in a fusion. Type of Action: Drunk Driving AccidentsInjury: Traumatic brain Injury Description: The case involved a 14-year-old young man who was injured when the pick up in which he was riding in rolled over. The defendant, a minor, who was driving the vehicle, was intoxicated. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Spinal Cord Injuries Description: The case involved a 19-year-old young man who was a passenger in a car, which left the roadway and rolled over causing a severe neck injury resulting in quadriplegia. A structured settlement was put in place with these funds resulting in a return many times more than the actual settlement. This settlement allowed for lifetime care and income. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Death Description: The case involved a 24-year-old who was killed as a passenger in a single car crash. The driver of the vehicle was found to be legally intoxicated. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Wrongful Death Description: The case involved a 27-year-old single male who on Thanksgiving Day was operating his truck with his best friend as a passenger. When passing through an intersection in South Minneapolis, they were struck by a City of Minneapolis squad car, which had come through a stop sign and lacked any emergency lights. Both the 27 -year-old male and his best friend were killed. This represents the largest jury award in Minnesota for death of a single young adult. Type of Action: Premises LiabilityInjury: Spinal Cord Injuries Description: A teenage girl was partially paralyzed when she tripped or fell into a swimming pool that was under construction at her family's home. The swimming pool contractor settled before trial and the jury found the girl's parents responsible for negligent supervision. Type of Action: Wrongful Death Automobile AccidentInjury: 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. Type of Action: Medical MalpracticeInjury: Brain Injuries Description: This case involved the labor and delivery of a child. The fetal heart monitor showed early signs of fetal distress and the doctor failed to perform an early cesarean section. A cesarean section was eventually performed and the child was born, but suffered brain damage with residual spastic quadriplegia and mental retardation. The settlement was structured to provide a lifetime of care and support for the child. Type of Action: Semi Truck AccidentsInjury: Death Description: The case involved a 53-year-old man who was killed when his SUV was hit by a semi tractor. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: 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. Type of Action: Premise LiabilityInjury: partial leg amputations Description: The case involved a settlement for an 11 year old boy who suffered partial leg amputations while playing on the railroad tracks in Minneapolis. Type of Action: Semi Truck AccidentInjury: Lost 70% of her eyesight Description: The case involved a settlement for a homemaker who lost 70% of her eyesight in a car/truck collision in New Jersey Type of Action: Wrongful DeathInjury: Death Description: The case involved an jury verdict for the wrongful death of a 75 year old railroad worker retiree. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Traumatic Brain Injury stitches under her right eye, fluid in her stomach and they removed part of the small intestine. Description: The case involved a 46-year-old woman who was driving her car when a commercial pick up truck that did not see a stop sign hit her broadside going 55 mph. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Traumatic Brain Injury Description: A physician was shoveling snow in his driveway one morning before work when a car being driven by a lawyer slid into him, causing a brain injury. The lawyer's insurance policy provided only $100,000.00 of coverage, but additional coverage through the lawyer's law firm was established by proof that the lawyer was driving from home to court, rather than to his office, and was therefore legally considered to be on the job at the time of the accident. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Significant hip fracture requiring and open reduction and plating of the acetabulum as well as a fracture of the knee cap requiring an open reduction and internal fixation with wires. Description: The case involved a 54-year-old man who was involved in a two-vehicle collision on an icy Minnesota highway. The defendant vehicle had spun out of control and was blocking the road when the plaintiff t-boned his vehicle. Type of Action: Semi tractor-trailer AccidentInjury: facial Injuries: brain Injury, aggravation of pre-existing Huntington's Disease Description: The case involved semi-truck traveling too fast for a curve and tipped over onto a young driver's vehicle. Type of Action: Construction AccidentsInjury: Death Description: The case involved a 34-year-old man who was a concrete worker employed to pour a concrete floor in a 3-story wood frame apartment building under construction in Hutchinson, MN. On 5/5/97, the worker was pouring concrete on the ground floor when an approximately 45 mph gust of wind came up, causing the building to collapse, fatally crushing him. Investigation proved that the collapse was caused by very careless construction practices. Type of Action: Product LiabilityInjury: Paraplegic Description: The case involved a settlement for a 14 year old who became paraplegic in an all terrain vehicle accident. Type of Action: Product LiabilityInjury: Paraplegic Description: The case involved a settlement in a product liability action for a 39 year old tire center worker who became paraplegic when he fell off a tire racking storage system. Type of Action: Product LiabilityInjury: Orthopedic injuries Description: A sixteen year old boy was riding his brother's old bicycle, which had just been fixed up by a neighborhood bicycle repair shop. Driving the bike down a hill toward an intersection, he saw a truck pull out in front of him. He squeezed both brakes, but only the front brakes worked, and as a result he was thrown over the handle bars and under the truck, suffering severe orthopedic injuries. Suit was brought first against the bicycle repair shop and subsequently against the truck driver. Both defendants settled before trial. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Broken Bones Description: The case involved a woman who was driving her car across the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis when she lost control on ice and struck the bridge rail. She got out of the car to examine the damage and just was she was re-entering the car, an uninsured vehicle lost control, striking the plaintiff and pinning her between her car and the uninsured vehicle. After recovery of an arbitration award of $775,000.00, plaintiff proceeded to collect additional amounts from the insurance on the vehicle which she was operating, a ???loaner vehicle from her car dealer. The car dealer's insurance company, Safeco, vigorously disputed plaintiff's entitlement to benefits, resulting in two appeals (Safeco v. Goldenberg). Plaintiff's claims were ultimately upheld on appeal. Type of Action: Automobile Accident1Injury: Severe post traumatic headaches, cervical strain Description: Plaintiff's vehicle was rearended by the Defendant and pushed into the motor vehicle in front resulting in 3 totaled vehicles. The Plaintiff's head was split open when he was thrown forward into the windshield. His seat was sheared off at impact and after hitting the windshield he was thrown backward to the floor of the back seat. The Plaintiff was taken by ambulance to Regions Hospital. Type of Action: Medical MalpracticeInjury: Death Description: A woman died during a neurosurgical operation. Type of Action: Premises LiabilityInjury: crushing of the leg Description: The case involved a 42-year-old homeowner who had hired the defendant to do some landscaping work in conjunction with construction of his new home. At some point during the work the defendant invited the plaintiff to operate the bobcat (Skid Loader). While carrying a load of earth in the bucket, the bobcat suddenly tipped forward. The plaintiff was thrown from the seat. His leg was trapped between the bucket and the frame of the bobcat. He attempted to extricate himself by operating the bucket control lever. He pushed the lever in the wrong direction causing a severe crush injury to his right leg. Type of Action: Product LiabilityInjury: Death Description: During a holiday parade, a police van suddenly accelerated into the crowd of onlookers, injuring several and killing two. In a four week state court trial plaintiffs established that the sudden acceleration resulted from a defective aftermarket electronic product installed in the vehicle. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Closed head injury, neck and back injury Description: The case involved several laborers who were injured in a rollover highway accident. Type of Action: Boating AccidentsInjury: Wrongful Death Description: The case involved a 29-year-old plaintiff and his wife was out for an afternoon cruise on Lake Minnetonka. The operator of a fishing boat nearby observed some approaching weather and decided to try to get home before the rain hit. While proceeding at approximately 25 to 30 mph, he struck the side of the boat in which the plaintiff was riding, killing him. The plaintiff was survived by his wife and two young children Type of Action: Car AccidentsInjury: Head injury with dizziness and post-traumatic stress disorder Description: The case involved a store manager who suffered physical and psychological injuries following a rear-end motor vehicle accident. Type of Action: Auto Accident/Broken BoneInjury: Leg Injury(Multiple Fractures) Description: This case involves a 40-year-old gentleman that was a pedestrian when he was struck by an automobile at an auto show. His left leg was run over, and he suffered multiple fractures in that leg. He went through extensive therapy to save the leg and amputation could occur in the future. The defendants claimed the accident was the plaintiff's fault for stepping in front of the car and the leg was going to be lost due to diabetes. Type of Action: Medical MalpracticeInjury: Death Description: A 43-year-old father and husband suddenly developed an excruciating headache, the first such headache in his life. At the small town emergency room in Wisconsin, the physician failed to consider a cerebral aneurysm and did not perform a CT scan. He instead diagnosed a sinus headache and sent the patient home with antibiotics. The patient subsequently died of a cerebral aneurysm. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Multiple Fractures / Head Injury Description: The case involved a University of Minnesota athlete hit by a garbage truck on Christmas Eve, 1992, suffering multiple fractures and a closed head injury Type of Action: Medical MalpracticeInjury: Wrongful Death Description: A medical malpractice lawsuit against a hospital for the wife and children of a man who committed suicide in the locked psychiatric unit of the hospital. A federal court jury found the hospital negligent at the conclusion of a two week trial. Type of Action: Premises LiabilityInjury: Burn Description: A 2-year-old boy suffered severe scald burns from excessively hot water in an apartment building bathtub when his babysitter momentarily left him unattended and he climbed into the tub. The settlement was paid by the apartment building owner and the hot water heater manufacturer. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Brain Injuries Description: The case involved a young man who sustains a serious brain injury when a vehicle pulling a trailer was unable to stop and collided with his car. The case settled the morning of closing arguments after a four-week trial. Type of Action: Injury to ChildrenInjury: Foot Injury Description: The involved a infant child who got her foot caught underneath the washing machine resulting in serious injury to her foot. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Soft Tissue-Back Description: The case involved a woman who injured her low back in a motor vehicle accident Type of Action: Medical MalpracticeInjury: Loss of Arm Description: The case involved a man in his late thirties who had to have his arm amputated because the cast on his arm was applied too tight resulting in Ischemia of the arm. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Death Description: The case involved a woman passenger who was killed by a truck that went through a stop sign. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Back Injury Description: The case involved a middle age man who injured his neck and back, when his car was rear ended. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Low Back Injury Description: The case involved a young carpenter injured by a vehicle that ran into him in a parking lot crushing him between the door and frame of his car resulting in low back surgery. Type of Action: Auto AccidentsInjury: Serious leg Injury Description: The case involved a woman who suffered serious leg injuries as a result of being struck by a drunk driver. Type of Action: Auto AccidentsInjury: Crushed leg Description: The case involved a young woman who's legs were crushed while standing between two parked cars that were struck by a drunk driver. Type of Action: Premises LiabilityInjury: Broken Neck Description: The case involved a elderly man who fell down the steps at a home where construction was being done. Type of Action: Medical MalpracticeInjury: Death Description: The case involved an elderly woman who was getting an x-ray in a mobile unit when she was dropped by the medical personal. She died two days later due to her injuries. Type of Action: Motorcycle AccidentsInjury: fractured left clavicle, eight fractured ribs, collapsed lung, loss of spleen, gouge to knees Description: The case involved a 42-year-old man who was hit while riding his motorcycle. The defendant made a left turn directly in front of 42 year old man's motorcycle. The defendant admitted that she never even saw the motorcycle and didn't look before she started her turn. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Broken Ankle Description: The case involved a 56-year-old man who was severely hurt in a car accident. The defendant exited a driveway directly in the path of Plaintiff causing a collision to occur. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Soft Tissue-Back Description: The case involved a gentleman that injured his low back in a rear-end automobile accident. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Brain Injuries Description: The case involved a young man injured while a passenger in a motor vehicle accident. Type of Action: Motorcycle AccidentsInjury: Fractures of both wrists Description: The case involved a woman injured while driving a motorcycle as a result of a car pulling out in front of her. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Herniated Disc Description: The case involved a man who was driving a car that was rear ended. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Soft Tissue-Back Description: The case involved a man who injured his low back injury in a motor vehicle accident. Type of Action: Injury to ChildrenInjury: Loss if Vision Description: The case involved a 12-year-old boy who was struck in the eye by a golf ball resulting in loss of vision Type of Action: Premise LiabilityInjury: Internal Injuries Description: The case involved a 17-year-old boy injured falling out of a tree and landing on a stake. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Severe right arm injuries requiring three surgeries. Skin grafting harvesting sites on thighs and back. Description: The case involved a 18-year-old young man who suffered a severe arm injury when his car was hit by a out of control driver. The 18-year-old man required three surgeries to repair his right arm. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: The client had over sixty stitches to the head and forehead. Client had multiple facial lacerations. Description: The case involved a 27-year-old woman who was rear-ended by a drunk driver causing her vehicle to flip over and strike median. Client was ejected and trapped underneath the vehicle. The defendant was driving over 90 MPH when he rear ended the plaintiff's car. Type of Action: Slip, Trip and FallInjury: Right hip fracture; head injury. Description: The case involved a 82-year-old woman who was injured when an automatic door closed in on her and knocking her to the ground and fracturing her hip. Type of Action: Train AccidentsInjury: Cervical-dystonia(Torticollis) Description: A 35-year-old railroad worker (brakeman) was on an engine collided head on with another train west of Denver, Colorado. The engineer next to him was killed and the client was lucky to escape with a soft tissue injury. The railroad claimed they were not negligent, but the jury determined otherwise. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: 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. Type of Action: Auto AccidentsInjury: Back & Shoulder injury(Surgery-Fusion) Description: The case involved a 32-year-old man who was stopped on the shoulder of the road, because of a accident between two semi tractor trailers. Without warning, a Chevrolet pick-up truck towing a loaded horse trailer, driving at a high rate of speed smashed into him. Type of Action: Auto AccidentsInjury: 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. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Monteggia Fracture of his arm Description: The case involved a 22-year-old young man who was a passenger in his friend's car, when a woman pulled out in front of the car he was a passenger in. The impact shattered the windows and he threw up his arm to shield his face. He was then thrown to the side impacting with his right arm. He felt immediate pain and snapping as the bone came through his skin. Type of Action: Automobile Accident / Injury to ChildrenInjury: Broken Ankle Description: The case involved a 14-year-old young man who was cleaning the warehouse where his mother worked. He was driving around the warehouse on a forklift with a employee of the warehouse. As they attempted to turn a corner, the forklift tipped over and the cage fell on young man's ankle causing a severe fracture of the right ankle. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Shoulder Surgery/Soft Tissue Description: The case involved a 41-year-old woman who was driving her car through a intersection, when suddenly, and without warning, an eastbound vehicle made a left-hand turn directly into the path of the her vehicle resulting in a severe collision. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Left clavicle fracture, Left knee contusion, Neck strain Description: The case involved a 34-year-old woman who was coming home from work, when the defendant failed to yield the right of away at a stop sign and hit the woman car broadside. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Back & Shoulder injury(Surgery) Description: The case involved a 58-year-old man who was stop at a red light. Suddenly, without any warning, his vehicle was violently rear ended and pushed forward in to the vehicle ahead. This was a high speed rear end collision. Five vehicles were involved in the accident. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: disc herniation at C5-6 and a TFCC tear in her right wrist. Description: The case involved a 42-year-old mother of one who was driving home from her sister's house when the defendant driver ran a red light and hit her car broadside. The defendant was driving over 50 MPH when he hit her car. Type of Action: Auto Accidents/Broken BoneInjury: Multiply injuries Including a fractured ankle. Description: The case involved a 65-year-old man who was injured in a head on collision. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Broken Hand Description: The case involved a 24-year-old woman who was driving her car home, when the defendant run a red light and hit her vehicle. Type of Action: Construction AccidentsInjury: Immediate loss of sensation of all extremities, and eventually regain some movement in his leg and feet, but now suffers from a permanent cervical spine bruise resulting in permanent loss for the use of his hands and only partial use of his arm. Description: Crane Operator move trusses that had been hoisted to the top of a garage. Upon moving one of the trusses it bumped another causing it to fall and hit a 42-year-old man with four children, on the head causing bruising of the cervical spine and partial periphrasis of both upper extremities. Type of Action: Car AccidentsInjury: Severe foot fracture (Calcaneus) Description: The case involved a middle age man who sustained a severe fracture to the foot in an auto accident and was required to use a brace for rest of his life, even though he could continue to work. Type of Action: Car AccidentsInjury: Brain Injuries Description: This case involved a husband and father who was employed in the meat department of the local food store who suffered a closed head injury in a motor vehicle collision. This man sustained a permanent disability, which entitled him to social security and disability benefits. Additionally, the liability settlement was placed in a structured annuity returning many times its value to the plaintiff and his family. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Traumatic Brain Injury, fractured pelvis Description: This case involved a 16-year-old young woman, who was driving through an intersection in Elk River, when a pick up pulling a full trailer of asphalt ran the red light an crashed into the young woman. Type of Action: Product LiabilityInjury: Amputation Description: This case involved a 45-year-old Hispanic man who was employed on a temporary job at a pizza and dough related bakery in southwest Minnesota. He was hired to clean trays and other equipment. At the time of the accident he was asked to clean a tri-roller machine. This was the first time he had worked on a moving machine. He was standing on a stool and reach up over his shoulder height into the hopper to clean the inside. When the two rollers caught the glove he was wearing and drew his left hand and arm into the machine, crushing it and requiring amputation below the elbow. Type of Action: Automobile AccidentInjury: Abdominal surgery & Scarring Description: The case involved a 50-year-old woman who was driving her friend home. As they pulled out, a vehicle going eastbound on 11th Street struck the front left corner of her vehicle. She was taken to the hospital where she was hospitalized and had abdominal surgery performed. A portion of her stomach apparently was pushed up into her esophagus, and they had to do surgery in that area She has an incision and resultant scar from below her umbilical to the bottom of her sternum. Type of Action: Medical MalpracticeInjury: Metallic body and eye misdiagnosis and blindness in one eye Description: The case involved a young mechanic who lost the sight in one eye after a medical doctor failed to diagnose the presence of a foreign metal object in his eye during routine emergency room care. Plaintiff presented to the emergency room after a fleck of metal struck his eye while he was hammering a tire rim. The result was that the foreign body formed scar tissue, which damaged the r | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
