{"id":842,"date":"2013-04-01T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury-robertkreisman.lawblogger.net\/?p=842"},"modified":"2013-04-04T12:04:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T17:04:47","slug":"70000-cook-county-verdict-for-a-woman-knocked-down-by-backing-up-car-wilkins-v-solis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/70000-cook-county-verdict-for-a-woman-knocked-down-by-backing-up-car-wilkins-v-solis\/","title":{"rendered":"$70,000 Cook County Verdict for a Woman Knocked Down by Backing Up Car; Wilkins v. Solis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On April 25, 2008, Marie Wilkins, a teacher at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everest.edu\/\">Everest College<\/a>, started walking toward the Metra train station at Michigan and Van Buren streets in Chicago. She was walking south across Van Buren Street, between State and Wabash, where Van Buren intersects midblock with an alley. The alley is also known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/#hl=en&amp;sclient=psy-ab&amp;q=Holden+Court++chicago&amp;oq=Holden+Court++chicago&amp;gs_l=serp.3..0i22i30.1273.3415.1.4251.8.5.0.3.3.0.136.451.4j1.5.0...0.0...1c.1.7.psy-ab.K44TX-7STMQ&amp;pbx=1&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&amp;fp=f11dc34378641da&amp;biw=1260&amp;bih=579\">Holden Court <\/a>in some parts of the Loop.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was at this alley that she was hit by a backing vehicle traveling eastbound on the one-way westbound street. The car was being driven by the defendant Orlando Solis, 27, and was owned by the defendant, Cynthia Ayala, who was a passenger.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wilkins, 60, was knocked to the ground, and she lost consciousness. She sustained a fractured scapula of her left shoulder and a fractured fifth metacarpal\/little finger on her left hand. She also sustained elbow bursitis and a two-inch scar on her left knee. No surgery was necessary, but she did undergo physical therapy and lost three months of work as a medical assistant instructor plus $85,300 for lost opportunity to teach an additional class for a full course load for 4 years until the school closed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/70000-cook-county-verdict-for-a-woman-knocked-down-by-backing-up-car-wilkins-v-solis\/#more-842\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; On April 25, 2008, Marie Wilkins, a teacher at Everest College, started walking toward the Metra train station at Michigan and Van Buren streets in Chicago. She was walking south across Van Buren Street, between State and Wabash, where Van Buren intersects midblock with an alley. The alley is also known as Holden [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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>$70,000 Cook County Verdict for a Woman Knocked Down by Backing Up Car; Wilkins v. 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