Valuing Vehicle Accident Cases Involving Broken Bones And Other Considerable Injuries
Bone fractures are not atypical in high impact motor vehicle accidents. And with bone fractures commonly come multiple other injuries that can result in permanent disabilities. In what follows we analyze two published examples which involved fractures.
This accident occurred as a man was walking his dog along the side of a road. The man was hit by a motor vehicle and sustained a fractured ankle. He also ruptured his spleen which prompted considerable bleeding internally. This, in turn, caused his kidneys to fail. Only 57 years old, the man is now a candidate for a transplant and will require dialysis until he can get a transplant. The law firm that handled this personal injury claim reported that a $2.5 Million settlement was achieved on behalf of the plaintiff.
The next incident took place in an intersection where a motor vehicle that was legally in the intersection was hit on the passenger side by a second one. At the time of the accident sitting in the front passenger seat of the vehicle that was hit was a 44 year old woman. The impact caused fractures to her clavicle, to various of her ribs, and to her pelvis. Her bladder was lacerated. Furthermore, she suffered closed-head trauma. She incurred in the order of $85,000 in expenses for medical treatment. The plaintiff could no longer perform her job as an administrative assistant being paid roughly $18,700 per year. This amounted to a loss of earning capacity totaling over $600,000. The motor vehicle insurance policy