On March 13, 2021, the plaintiff, who was 49 at the time, reached an intersection when she was “T” boned by a tractor trailer. As a result of the force of the collision, the left side of her head struck the glass on the driver’s side door, and she felt dazed. She went home, fely dizzy and called EMS, who transported her to the hospital for treatment. The plaintiff had a significant past medical history, which included prior automobile accidents and prior injuries, which one year before the subject wreck, resulted in rod insertion at the L5-S1 level by her spinal surgeon. What’s more, as recently as one week before the wreck, she had ongoing pain and disability which required a subsequent MRI of her lower back.
As a result of the subject wreck, the plaintiff had increased pain in her lower back which radiated down her legs, numbness and loss of strength. As a result of these exacerbations, he neuro-surgeon opined that her lower back condition was made worse, and that conservative treatment failed, he recommended, and she underwent a laminectomy at L4-L5 with extension and fusion up to L4. The defendant’s expert disputed this causal relationship; he did not believe that she suffered any injuries due to the subject wreck and that there was no objective disability. The case settled for the sum of $325,000.
