Motor Vehicle Accident Verdicts Settlements
New York Construction and Workplace Accident Verdicts and Settlements
The personal injury attorneys at Powers & Santola, LLP, provide knowledgeable and vigorous representation to injured workers and their families. Our goal: to help victims and their families obtain full and fair compensation for their injuries. Construction accidents are one of the core areas of our law practice, and we have handled hundreds of cases over the past 20 years.
Below are a few examples of the construction accident and workplace injury cases we have handled. Please note that past results do not guarantee a similar outcome in future cases. This information is provided to acquaint prospective clients with the scope and difficulty of cases we have handled in the past.
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- $4,500,000 recovery for an 18-year-old boy who suffered paraplegia when the car in which he was riding as a seat-belted rear seat passenger left the road and struck a utility pole head-on fracturing the boy's spine. The injuries were caused by the "lap-only" style seatbelt that Chrysler had installed as standard backseat equipment in its pre-1989 vehicles.
- $4.25 Million recovered for a passenger from an auto finance company who leased a van to an uninsured private transportation service, whose driver fell asleep at the wheel.
- $1.12 Million recovery for a college student from Georgia who sustained traumatic brain injury as the result of a motor vehicle collision while a passenger in a car that had been rented by the college and driven by an employee of the college.
- $1 Million recovery for a 33-year-old man who suffered compound fractures of both legs and his shoulder when his pickup truck was struck by a car at an intersection in New Jersey.
- $2.5 Million recovery for a 32-year-old woman who was permanently paralyzed as the result of being ejected from a motor vehicle in which she was riding as a passenger when the driver lost control of the vehicle, causing it to leave the road and roll over several times.
- $1.625 Million recovery for a 36-year-old man who suffered brain damage and multiple fractures when the intoxicated driver of the motorcycle on which he was a passenger lost control and struck a guardrail. The driver was intoxicated because the promoters of a "Summer Jam" concert he had been attending unlawfully sold him alcoholic beverages in violation of the "dram shop law."
- $3,155,921 recovery for a 16-year-old girl who suffered traumatic brain damage when the car she was operating collided with a motor vehicle at a T-intersection of a county highway and a town road. The county and town failed to provide proper signage to warn motorists unfamiliar with the intersection that they were approaching an intersection at which the motorist driving on the town road was required to stop.
- $6.3 Million recovery for a 14-year-old boy who suffered a fractured skull with a diffuse axonal brain injury that caused cognitive impairments when the car in which the boy was a passenger was penetrated by a defectively designed snow plow assembly unit attached to the front of the truck that collided with the car.
- $7.3 Million recovery for a young man who sustained several fractures and a permanent brain injury, which left him with both motor and cognitive deficits, after a department store truck missed a stop sign and struck his car.
- $1.9 Million recovery for a 39-year-old man from South Carolina who suffered a traumatic brain injury when the tractor-trailer he was operating was struck by another tractor-trailer.
- $1.7 Million recovery for two Iranian immigrants who were injured as the result of a tractor-trailer colliding with their car and for their mother who experienced severe emotional distress witnessing her children being injured.
- $1.4 Million recovery for a 70-year-old woman from New Jersey who suffered facial fractures and brain damage when her car was struck by a tractor-trailer whose operator who was in the process of changing lanes and didn't see her car.
Collision with Train
- $1.575 Million recovery for a 45-year-old Pennsylvania man who suffered a traumatic brain injury with moderate cognitive deficits when the truck he was operating was struck by a CSX freight train because of an improperly designed railroad crossing.
- $900,000 recovery for the family of a 40-year-old man who died when he was struck by a CSX freight train at an improperly designed railroad crossing.
Plane Crash
- $1.2 Million recovery for the widow of a carpenter who died when the private plane he was traveling in crashed as the pilot was attempting to land.
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