{"id":4942,"date":"2015-04-13T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=4942"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:33:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:33:51","slug":"backing-truck-strikes-pedestrian-results-127000-cook-county-jury-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/backing-truck-strikes-pedestrian-results-127000-cook-county-jury-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Backing Truck Strikes Pedestrian, Resulting in $127,000 Cook County Jury Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<p>Sandra Gibbs hired the defendant Blu-Sky Industries to do work on a septic tank on her property at 30658 S. Ashland Ave. in Beecher, Ill. The Village of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villageofbeecher.org\/\">Beecher <\/a>is located in Chicago-area suburbs in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willcountyillinois.com\/\">Will County<\/a>, Ill. On Dec. 8, 2009, Gibbs, 31 years old at the time, stood in her driveway supervising the work as the defendant Blu-Sky Industries\u2019 workers completed the project. She was walking back toward her house when a Blu-Sky employee, Jacob Courtney, began backing up his truck, which was attached to a trailer.<\/p>\n<p>Courtney did not see Gibbs and hit her twice, causing her to fall onto the trailer with a direct blow to her outstretched right arm. The truck continued in reverse with Gibbs halfway on the trailer and halfway on the ground for 10 additional feet before the truck finally stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Gibbs suffered a right shoulder impingement with a partial thickness tear of the <a href=\"http:\/\/emedicine.medscape.com\/article\/93095-overview\">supraspinatus tendon<\/a> in the rotator cuff, requiring injections and eventually surgery that consisted of arthroscopic distal clavicle excision and subacromial decompression. A subacromial decompression of the shoulder is a surgery designed to increase the size of the subacromial, which is designed to reduce the pressure on the muscle. In order to make room, the surgery involves cutting the ligament and shaving away the bone spur on the subacromial bone. This permits the muscle in that space to heal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/backing-truck-strikes-pedestrian-results-127000-cook-county-jury-verdict\/#more-4942\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandra Gibbs hired the defendant Blu-Sky Industries to do work on a septic tank on her property at 30658 S. Ashland Ave. in Beecher, Ill. The Village of Beecher is located in Chicago-area suburbs in Will County, Ill. 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