CALIFORNIA MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT: DRIVER SUFFERS BULGING DISC INJURY IN HOLLYWOOD
Our client was riding his motorcycle when he collided with a car in an intersection in Hollywood, California. As a result of the motorcycle accident, our client suffered a bulging disc injury (also known as a herniated disk). Our client lived in the canyons of Los Angeles, and he was an experienced motorcycle rider. The canyons in the Hollywood Hills are very narrow, and they have many small side streets that enter into the canyon roads. As our client was driving down the canyon, the defendant stopped at a stop sign on a side street leading into the canyon. The defendant negligently started moving forward as the motorcycle approached where the defendant was entering the canyon road. The motorcycle and automobile collided sending the motorcycle rider flying off the motorcycle and into the bushes. At first our client thought he only had bumps and bruises, and he saw a chiropractor. After a few months, he was still hurting, and the chiropractor referred him to an orthopedic doctor who took an MRI scan of our client's back. The MRI showed a small bulging disc at L-4 L-5 in the low back.
Our client was a film editor who would have to sit for many hours at a video machine viewing and splicing film. Although it would hurt him to sit for a long time, he elected not to have an operation. We argued at trial that the jury would either have to compensate our client for a life time of pain if he didn't have other operation, or they would have to give him enough money to pay for the operation in the future.
This case went to non binding arbitration with another attorney, and they were awarded $18,000. The defendant's insurance company did not accept the non binding award and opted for trial which is when we took over the case. Although the defendant's liability insurance policy was for $100,000, the insurance company paid the entire judgment of $325,000 without appealing.
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