{"id":1547,"date":"2013-06-18T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2013-06-16T08:39:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T13:39:39","slug":"25000-jury-verdict-in-three-car-collision-at-stop-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/25000-jury-verdict-in-three-car-collision-at-stop-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"$25,000 Jury Verdict in Three-Car Collision at Stop Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Elaine Shafran was stopped at a stop sign on Portwine Road and Orange Brace Road, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riverwoods-il.net\/\">Riverwoods, Ill.<\/a>, when northbound defendant, Atsuko Alvarez, rear-ended a minivan behind the plaintiff, pushing the van into plaintiff\u2019s station wagon.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The plaintiff, a 56-year-old special education teacher, alleged that the impact caused aggravation of a pre-existing arthritis in her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spine-health.com\/conditions\/spine-anatomy\/lumbar-spine-anatomy-and-pain\">lumbar spine<\/a>.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>She said she incurred medical bills of $18,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The defendant denied that Shafran was injured in the accident at all.<span>\u00a0<\/span>She said that plaintiff waited until 9 days after the crash to get medical treatment.<span>\u00a0<\/span>She first went to a chiropractor 15 months after the crash.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The plaintiff, Shafran, was involved in 3 later accidents; in all of them, she was not at fault.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Shafran testified that she had experienced low back pain since she delivered her first child in 1982.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">During trial, the plaintiff\u2019s medical testimony came from her internist and her chiropractor.<span>\u00a0<\/span>On the defense side, the defendant hired an orthopedic surgeon to testify as to the damage feature of the case.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/25000-jury-verdict-in-three-car-collision-at-stop-sign\/#more-1547\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elaine Shafran was stopped at a stop sign on Portwine Road and Orange Brace Road, in Riverwoods, Ill., when northbound defendant, Atsuko Alvarez, rear-ended a minivan behind the plaintiff, pushing the van into plaintiff\u2019s station wagon.\u00a0 The plaintiff, a 56-year-old special education teacher, alleged that the impact caused aggravation of a pre-existing arthritis in her [&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":[45,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-car-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$25,000 Jury Verdict in Three-Car Collision at Stop Sign &#8212; 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