Hurt In An Accident?
There’s More Than Money At Stake.

An 8 year old child was injured playing at a pumpkin patch resulting in injuries including a permanent scar to his face.

A 47 year old man who was injured after falling on black ice in a driveway, sustaining injuries requiring shoulder surgery.

Following a mediation for a 52 year old client who fractured her ankle causing her to develop Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and injured her hip and low back while taking the garbage out at work.

Following a mediation for a 38 year old client who was injured in a motor vehicle collision while driving a box truck for work when the defendant failed to stop at a red light, causing the box truck to roll over. He sustained injuries including a facial laceration, traumatic brain injury with visual disturbance, neck pain, back pain, left arm pain, right hip pain, right knee pain, anxiety about driving, and PTSD/anxiety about driving.

Following an appeal of an arbitration award by the defendant for a 37 year old client injured at a trampoline park, resulting in neck pain, low back pain and post-concussion syndrome.

A 48 year old woman who injured her low back as a passenger in a motor vehicle that turned left into oncoming traffic.

A 50 year old woman who injured her back while moving a patient as a CNA, requiring a fusion surgery.

Caselaw on an issue of first impression in Connecticut, holding that a UM carrier’s policy requirement of reporting a hit and run accident to the police within 24 hours is not authorized by statute or under the corresponding regulations, and acted in this case to bar the broad and standard uninsured benefits intended to benefit the insured and mandated by law. Decision denied the defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment.

Settlement: $550,000

We obtained a settlement at mediation of $550,000 in case where our client, a home health aide, was pushed down stairs by an elderly dementia patient she was caring for. Our client worked for an agency and was hired by the family to care for an elderly woman in her home. One day when the Aide was bringing breakfast upstairs to feed the patient, the patient met the Aide at the top of the stairs and pushed her backwards, causing her to fall down to the bottom of the staircase. As a result of the fall, our client sustained serious back injuries which eventually required discectomy and fusion.

Lost wage and medical benefits were provided by the Workers’ Compensation insurer and were reimbursed pursuant to statute out of the liability settlement.

Settlement: $249,000.00

Cervical Discectomy and Fusion; Headaches

Our client was rear-ended while working. He had immediate neck pain with radiating numbness into his hands and arms and was diagnosed with a herniated disc in the neck. After conservative therapy failed to resolve his symptoms, a discectomy and two level fusion were performed. Medical bills, lost wages and other benefits were paid by the workers’ compensation insurer in excess of $80,000.00. The claimant was eventually rated as having a significant permanent disability. During the course of litigation, settlement was reached for $249,000.00 by Eric A. Polinsky.

Settlement: $365,000.00

16 year old female – Hip and Shoulder Injuries, Arthroscopic Surgery

We represented a 16 year old girl who was a passenger in a vehicle driven by one of her friends. As the car was traveling down a curved mountain road in Newington, Connecticut, the driver, who was traveling too fast on this road, crossed over into the opposite lane of travel, thereby causing a head-on collision with another vehicle. Our client received injuries to her shoulder and hip which required arthroscopic surgery. A law suit was commenced against the driver of the vehicle. Prior to Trial, the case was submitted to Mediation. After a day-long Mediation, settlement was reached for the sum of $365,000.00.