{"id":5328,"date":"2010-06-07T16:35:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T23:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/news\/?p=388"},"modified":"2010-06-07T16:35:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T23:35:27","slug":"broadside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2010\/06\/07\/broadside\/","title":{"rendered":"$500,000: Grandmother Hit Broadside Reaches Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CASE DESCRIPTION:<\/strong> A grandson accompanied by his grandmother was struck broadside by a commercial pickup truck by an employee of the concrete company.&nbsp; The employee was acting under the course and scope of his employment.&nbsp; The plaintiffs sued the employer and employee for the injuries they suffered.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RESULT:&nbsp; $500,000.00 total settlement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mimanell R. was a passenger in a vehicle being driven by her grandson, Nathaniel T.&nbsp; They were struck broadside on the passenger side when a commercial pickup truck ran through a boulevard stop.&nbsp; Mimanell&nbsp;R. was badly injured by the impact, consisting of a fractured leg and facial lacerations.<\/p>\n<p>Nathaniel T. suffered bruises and burns from deployment of the airbags in the car.&nbsp; He brought to a significant claim for the negligent infliction of emotional distress, fearing that his grandmother, who was bleeding and unconscious after the collision, had been killed in the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs argued that the defendant driver, Robert S., was employed by the concrete companies, who were wholly liable for his negligent driving.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TYPE<\/strong> <strong>OF CASE:<\/strong> Auto v. Pickup<\/p>\n<p><strong>INJURIES:<\/strong> Mimanell&nbsp;R. suffered a comminuted spiral fracture of her right femur, which required surgery and left her in a wheel chair for several months.&nbsp; Her face was also badly lacerated and she had facial zygomatic fracture which required surgery for repair. Her cheek wound became infected at the hospital&nbsp;, requiring additional surgery for repair.&nbsp; She later had two other surgeries on her face and eye.&nbsp; She faces a fifth surgery for removal of the pins in her knee because of the pain she continues to suffer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DATE &amp; LOCATION OF INCIDENT:<\/strong> On 7\/28\/03 at 1:30 p.m. on North Cannon Street and Loma in Orange, California.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLAINTIFF\u2019S AGE:<\/strong> Mimanell&nbsp;R. was in her sixties at the time of her injury.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OCCUPATION:<\/strong> Housewife<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLAINTIFFS\u2019 ATTORNEY:<\/strong><br \/>\nChristopher A. Aitken<br \/>\nAITKEN&nbsp;*&nbsp;AITKEN&nbsp;* COHN<br \/>\n<em>For Plaintiff \u2013 Mimanel &amp; James R. and Nathaniel T.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>DEFENDANTS\u2019 ATTORNEY:<\/strong><br \/>\nMichael D. Mike Rohfeld<br \/>\nLAW OFFICES OF RICHARD J. WIANECKI<\/p>\n<p><em>For Defendant \u2013 Coastal Concrete, Inc., Dorado Concrete, Inc., Robert&nbsp;S.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CASE DESCRIPTION: A grandson accompanied by his grandmother was struck broadside by a commercial pickup truck by an employee of the concrete company.&nbsp; The employee was acting under the course and scope of his employment.&nbsp; The plaintiffs sued the employer and employee for the injuries they suffered. RESULT:&nbsp; $500,000.00 total settlement Mimanell R. was a&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2010\/06\/07\/broadside\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[826],"class_list":["post-5328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verdicts-settlements","tag-vehicular-accidents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}