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Neck, Back and Spine Injuries: Verdicts/Settlements

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$2,475,000.00Settlement

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.
Attorney:
$1,350,000.00Settlement

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
Settlement for a young man who was rendered a quadriplegic when he was rear-ended by a negligent driver.
Attorney:
Alicia N Sieben
$1,200,000.00Settlement

Cervical Fusion

Description:
A commercial airline pilot, age 55, was a passenger in an airport shuttle taking him from MSP to a downtown Minneapolis hotel when the vehicle hit an unmarked depression left by a construction crew on a downtown street. The pilot was thrown upward by the impact, striking his head on the ceiling. He sustained a cervical spine injury and eventually underwent a cervical fusion. His ability to return to flying was disputed.
Attorney:
John C Goetz
$1,000,000.00Settlement

Immediate loss of sensation of all extremities, and eventually regained some movement in his legs and feet, but now suffers from a permanent cervical spine bruise resulting in permanent loss of the use of his hands and only partial use of his arm

Description:
A crane operator moved 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.
Attorney:
Paul E Godlewski
$835,000.00Settlement

Cervical Fusion

Description:
A 29-year-old sustained a neck injury in a t-bone car crash requiring a two level cervical fusion surgery.
Attorney:
Cole J Dixon
$800,000.00Settlement

Concussion and cervical spine injury

Description:
A 53-year-old woman driving in heavy traffic on the Crosstown Highway in Minneapolis was struck from the rear at moderate speed. Her head struck the steering wheel and she sustained a concussion and a cervical spine injury. She underwent extensive non-surgical medical care. Her ability to work was disputed.
Attorney:
John C Goetz
$775,282.00Arbitration Award

Disc herniation to L5-S1 with two surgeries

Description:
The case involved a 26-year-old man. The out of town defendant driving a rental car made an illegal U-turn causing a collision with the plaintiff. He suffered a herniated disc which required two surgeries, and there was substantial damage to his Ford Bronco.
Attorney:
Peter W Riley
$662,500.00Settlement

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
45-year-old man sustained a neck injury after being rear ended. Eventually required a cervical fusion surgery. Challenging issue was minimal property damage.
Attorney:
Cole J Dixon
$600,000.00Settlement

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
Rear end crash of elderly woman resulting in two fractured vertebrae in her neck.
Attorney:
Cole J Dixon
$550,000.00Settlement

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
Slip-and-fall at workplace resulting in multiple cervical and lumbar spine surgeries.
Attorney:
Alicia N Sieben
$537,500.00Settlement

Neck injury requiring surgery

Description:
This case involved a man who underwent cervical fusion surgery following a car accident.
Attorney:
$450,000.00Jury Verdict

Back Injury

Description:
A 60-year-old railroad worker fell from a boxcar. He suffered a soft tissue injury and suffered significant wage loss, which finally resulted in retirement from the railroad. The jury verdict was the largest ever obtained in the county for a personal injury.
Attorney:
$445,000.00Settlement

Neck Injury Requiring Surgery

Description:
The case involved a 40-year-old woman who was involved in three rear-end collisions. She suffered a neck injury requiring a cervical discectomy, decompression and fusion as well as the implantation of a spinal cord stimulator.
$425,000.00Settlement

Neck Injury Requiring Surgery

Description:
The case involved a 50-year-old man in a rear-end collision. He suffered a neck injury requiring a cervical discectomy and arthroplasty. The policy limits were obtained.
$419,132.00Jury Verdict

Neck and upper back injuries/Non surgical TMJ dysfunction

Description:
The case involved a plaintiff who was rear-ended at the intersection of Hennepin Avenue South at West 22nd Street in Minneapolis. The force of the collision pushed the plaintiff's car into the stopped vehicle in front of her. The plaintiff's vehicle was a total loss. The plaintiff was removed by back board to the emergency room at Fairview Riverside Medical Center.
Attorney:
$375,000.00Settlement

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
This case involves a 30-year-old woman who was injured in a motor vehicle accident on September 15, 2009. The injuries occurred in Denver, Colorado. The plaintiff went to Good Samaritan Hospital complaining of significant neck and back pain. The doctors ordered an immediate CT of her cervical spine which showed a fracture of the anterior inferior corner of C5 with distraction of the C5-6 spinous prosthesis. The doctor's final diagnosis was unstable ligamentous injury to her neck of C5-6. In December of 2009, she went through a posterior cervical decompression at C5-6 on the left with a hemilaminectomy for resection of small epidural hematoma. The patient had a very good recovery from the surgical intervention and is now able to lead the normal active life of a 30 year old mother of one.
$370,000.00Settlement

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
A seventy-one-year-old woman suffered avulsion fractures at the spinous process at C4 and, C6 levels in a motor vehicle accident. She also suffered a compression fracture at the T2 level, two rib fractures and a minor concussion. She recovered well but continued to have neck and upper back pain.
$350,000.00Jury Verdict

Soft Tissue-Back

Description:
The case involved a woman who injured her lower back in a motor vehicle accident
Attorney:
$350,000.00Settlement

Neck injury (non-surgical)

Description:
The case involved a 51 year-old man who was rear-ended by a semi-truck. He sustained injuries to his neck including multiple disc herniations. He was unable to work in a job requiring overhead reaching following the crash.
$336,811.00Arbitration Award

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
This case involved a police officer with a history of neck and back injuries. She was injured in an auto crash while on the job sustaining neck and back injuries. Following the crash, she underwent C7-T1 decompression and total disc replacement and L4-L5 total disc replacement surgery.
Attorney:
Cody C Scharpf
$330,000.00Settlement

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
The case involved a 60-year-old man who was hit by driver that crossed the center line after suffering a seizure. He sustained a sternum fracture, rib fractures, lumbar fractures, tibia fracture. The policy limits were obtained.
$320,000.00Settlement

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
The case involved a 67-year-old man who parked his car in the parking lot of a business. He stepped out of the car and slipped on the icy pavement as he was walking into the store. He suffered a neck injury requiring a 4-level cervical fusion.
$315,000.00Settlement

Back Injury

Description:
A journeyman carpenter fell when the handle broke on a Symons Corporation steel-ply system forming pan.
Attorney:
$300,000.00Settlement

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
A 55-year-old man suffered a compression fracture to the cervical spine and soft tissue injuries to the back. Treatment involved six rhizotomy procedures. Two procedures to the cervical and one to the thoracic spine. This case was complicated by his pre-exitsting condition which incluced severe degenerative disc disease and a prior neck fusion. We also had liability issues since the plaintiff's vehicle never came in contact with the defendant's vehicle.
$300,000.00Settlement

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
The case involved a 60-year-old woman who was hit by driver who failed to yield the right-of-way. She sustained a compression fracture in her lumbar spine and a fracture sternum and was forced to retire early. The policy limits were obtained.
$275,000.00Settlement

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
A 43-year-old was hit head-on by a vehicle that crossed the centerline. They required ACL repair surgery as well as low back discectomy surgery.
Attorney:
Cole J Dixon
$268,000.00Jury Verdict

Soft tissue neck & back, facial scar, and eye injury

Description:
The case involved a defendant who lost control of his car and crossed over the center line striking the plaintiff. (Offer before trial: $60,000)
$250,000.00Settlement

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
18-year-old girl rear-ended by 90-year-old woman. She developed lower back pain and went a year with no treatment, then required radiofrequency neurotomy treatments.
Attorney:
Cole J Dixon
$230,000.00Jury Verdict

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
50-year-old man sustained soft tissue neck/back injuries and a torn rotator cuff requiring surgery following a crash on 394.
Attorney:
Cole J Dixon
$224,783.70Jury Verdict

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
The case was an intersection accident where a school bus turned in front of the plaintiff. The plaintiff sustained soft tissue neck and back injuries, along with fractures of the metatarsal bones that required surgery. Liability and damages were vigorously contested. The case went to trial with the jury returning a verdict in the plaintiff's favor after four days.
Attorney:
$210,000.00Settlement

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
Auto accident resulting in non-surgical back injury.
Attorney:
Cody C Scharpf
$200,000.00Settlement

Broken Neck

Description:
The case involved an elderly man who fell down the steps at a home where construction was being done.
Attorney:
$200,000.00Settlement

Neck injury requiring surgery

Description:
The case involved a 50 year-old man who was involved in a rollover crash after being broadsided by another vehicle. He sustained injuries to his neck and back and underwent a cervical spine discectomy and fusion. The policy limits were obtained.
$200,000.00Settlement

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
The case involved a 46-year-old woman who was hit by driver who failed to yield the right-of-way. She sustained injuries to her neck, back, hip and jaw requiring extensive treatment. The policy limits were obtained.
$180,000.00Settlement

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
The case involved a woman who was a passenger in a vehicle driving in Washington state. The defendant lost control of their semi-tractor trailer and hit her vehicle causing a severe impact. She sustained injuries to her neck and back as well as a mild brain injury and underwent a lumbar laminotomy and partial discectomy.
$163,953.00Jury Verdict

Soft Tissue Neck & Back

Description:
The claimant was a 20-year-old married father of one who was injured in an intersection collision when another driver failed to stop for a yield sign, and collided with claimant. The driver of the at-fault vehicle was not insured and this claim proceeded to a jury trial against the claimant's own insurance carrier. The claimant sustained permanent soft tissue injuries to his neck and back.
Attorney:
Paul E Godlewski
$150,000.00Settlement

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
The case involved a 26-year-old woman who required surgery for a neck injury following a parking lot crash.
$150,000.00Settlement

Soft Tissue-Back

Description:
The case involved a gentleman that injured his lower back in a rear-end automobile accident.
Attorney:
$135,000.00Settlement

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
The case involved a woman who was a passenger in a vehicle driving in Washington state. The defendant lost control of their semi-tractor trailer and hit her vehicle causing a severe impact. She sustained injuries to her neck and back as well as a mild brain injury.
$128,000.00Jury Verdict

Soft tissue neck & back

Description:
The plaintiff suffered a soft tissue injury when defendants' negligence caused plaintiff's vehicle to roll over. The defendants claimed the damages were only $10,000, but the jury felt they were 13 times that.
Attorney:
$125,000.00Settlement

Herniated Disc

Description:
The case involved a man who was driving a car that was rear ended.
Attorney:
$125,000.00Settlement

Multiple Injuries-Including a back surgery

Description:
The case involved a 41-year-old woman who seriously injured her back when a semi-tractor trailer smashed into her a car.
Attorney:
$120,000.00Jury Verdict

Back Injury

Description:
A railroad worker was injured near Portland, Oregon in a train wreck. Defendants claimed that the plaintiff was under the influence of drugs, but the jury did not agree.
Attorney:
$111,000.00Settlement

Disc Injury Surgery

Description:
The case involved a 19-year-old man who seriously injured his back in an automobile accident.
Attorney:
$110,871.82Settlement

Neck and back injury (Surgery)

Description:
The case involved a 38-year-old man who was driving his pickup truck to his office, when he was rear end by the defendant vehicle.
Attorney:
$110,000.00Settlement

Neck, Back and Spine Injuries

Description:
The case involved a woman who was driving in Washington state. The defendant lost control of their semi-tractor trailer and hit her vehicle causing a severe impact. She sustained injuries to her neck and back as well as a concussion and PTSD.
$105,000.00Settlement

Lumbar Fracture and Bicep Tendon Tear

Description:
This case involved a 42-year-old man was on a motorcycle ride with his son. As they were approaching the stop sign, he was rear ended by a pickup truck.
Attorney:
Kojo A Addo
$104,000.00Settlement

Umbilical Hernia and Soft Tissue Injury-Neck and Back

Description:
This case involved a 47-year-old man who was violently T-boned by a drunk driver. He suffered an umbilical hernia requiring surgery among other soft tissue injuries.
Attorney:
Kojo A Addo
$102,000.00Settlement

Soft Tissue Injuries - Neck and Back and Loss of Future Earning Capacity

Description:
This case involved a 23-year-old man who was violently rear ended while at stopped at a stoplight. As a result, he suffered soft tissue injuries and was unable to return to job due to his injuries.
Attorney:
Kojo A Addo
$100,000.00Settlement

Soft Tissue-Back

Description:
The case involved a man who injured his lower back injury in a motor vehicle accident.
Attorney:
$93,000.00Settlement

Soft tissue-neck and back

Description:
The case involved a woman who was driving a car that was rear ended. Her car was not damaged. Before trial the insurance company offered zero to settle this case. The plaintiff claimed pain in her neck and back after the accident. The defendant's doctor said that she could not have injured her neck and back without damage to the car.
$91,000.00Jury Verdict

Soft tissue neck & back

Description:
The case involved a man with pre-existing neck and back injuries. His vehicle was struck in the rear by the defendant's vehicle. Before the trial, the defendant offered $5000 to settle the claim. The plaintiff claimed the accident aggravated his pre-existing injury.
$90,000.00Jury Verdict

Back Injury

Description:
The case involved a 39-year-old man who seriously injured his back in an intersection accident.
Attorney:
$80,000.00Settlement

Disc Injury

Description:
The case involved a 35-year-old woman who injured her back in an automobile accident.
Attorney:
$76,500.00Settlement

Disc Injury

Description:
The case involved a 28-year-old man who injured his back in an automobile accident.
Attorney:
$72,000.00Settlement

Disc Injury Surgery/Prior

Description:
The case involved a 39-year-old man who injured his back in an automobile accident.
Attorney: