{"id":1434,"date":"2013-05-23T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2013-05-22T07:58:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T12:58:52","slug":"1-45-million-cook-county-jury-verdict-in-road-construction-bike-accident-miles-v-tai-plumbing-llc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/1-45-million-cook-county-jury-verdict-in-road-construction-bike-accident-miles-v-tai-plumbing-llc\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.45 Million Cook County Jury Verdict in Road Construction Bike Accident; Miles v. Tai Plumbing, LLC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Thomas Miles, age 54, commuted to work regularly by bicycle.<span>\u00a0<\/span>He was riding his bike northbound on California Avenue in Chicago on July 14, 2008 in the marked bike lane when he came upon a patch of wet cement in the street.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The defendant Tai Plumbing had dug a 3-foot-wide trench across the northbound lanes to connect water and sewer lines for a building being developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forteconstruction.com\/\">Forte Construction<\/a>.<span>\u00a0<\/span>On the day of this incident, the Tai Plumbing workers had filled the trench in the street with cement and moved operations to the sidewalk area without covering the wet concrete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The front wheel of his bike sank into the wet concrete and caused his bike to stop suddenly and flip Miles over the handlebars.<span>\u00a0<\/span>He landed head-first on the pavement.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Miles suffered <a href=\"http:\/\/emedicine.medscape.com\/article\/824380-overview\">spinal subluxation fractures <\/a>of the neck at C2-3.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The injury required a fusion operation.<span>\u00a0<\/span>For two and a half months, Miles was unable to swallow, requiring a feeding tube. In addition, Miles suffered from an incomplete spinal cord injury, constant <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paresthesia\">paresthesia<\/a> in both arms from elbows to fingertips, spasticity in both hands and balance problems.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Miles had more than $358,000 in medical bills related to these injuries.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At trial, Miles argued that Tai Plumbing chose not to comply with the pubic way construction permit by failing to employ flagmen at the work site.<span>\u00a0<\/span>In addition, it was alleged that in failing to supply clear and positive tracking control, Tai Plumbing was also negligent.<span>\u00a0<\/span>There were no warning signs posted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/1-45-million-cook-county-jury-verdict-in-road-construction-bike-accident-miles-v-tai-plumbing-llc\/#more-1434\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Miles, age 54, commuted to work regularly by bicycle.\u00a0He was riding his bike northbound on California Avenue in Chicago on July 14, 2008 in the marked bike lane when he came upon a patch of wet cement in the street.\u00a0The defendant Tai Plumbing had dug a 3-foot-wide trench across the northbound lanes to connect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycle-accidents","category-construction-injuries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$1.45 Million Cook County Jury Verdict in Road Construction Bike Accident; Miles v. 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