{"id":889,"date":"2013-06-05T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury-robertkreisman.lawblogger.net\/?p=889"},"modified":"2016-08-31T16:29:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T16:29:13","slug":"65000-verdict-for-injury-suffered-in-t-bone-crash-at-intersection-choragwicki-v-szkodon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/65000-verdict-for-injury-suffered-in-t-bone-crash-at-intersection-choragwicki-v-szkodon\/","title":{"rendered":"$65,000 Cook County Verdict for Injury Suffered in T-Bone Crash at Intersection; Choragwicki v. Szkodon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On May 8, 2010, James Choragwicki was driving southeast on Willow Springs Road in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willowsprings-il.gov\/\">Willow Springs, Ill.<\/a>, when the defendant, Marek Szkodon, was traveling southwest in his car on Archer Avenue and went through a red light.<span>\u00a0<\/span>This resulted in a T-bone collision with the front of the plaintiff\u2019s vehicle striking the passenger side of the defendant&#8217;s vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The plaintiff, age 52, claimed the crash caused cervical strain and aggravation of his pre-existing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spine-health.com\/conditions\/degenerative-disc-disease\/lumbar-degenerative-disc-disease-ddd\">lumbar degenerative disc disease<\/a>.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Choragwicki was not treated by paramedics at the scene and did not go to the hospital after the crash.<span>\u00a0He\u00a0<\/span>first sought medical treatment three days later when he went to his primary care physician complaining of neck, back and left wrist pain.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Physical therapy was prescribed by his doctor.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Plaintiff began experiencing radiating low back pain into his right leg for the first time several weeks after the crash.<span>\u00a0<\/span>He did have <span>\u00a0<\/span>pre-existing degenerative disc disease, which was without symptoms prior to the accident.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Plaintiff underwent 4 months of physical therapy, receiving one epidural injection into his lumbar spine in December 2010 and made a full recovery by January 2011 with no complaints since that time.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Plaintiff missed 4 \u00bd weeks of work as a UPS truck driver.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/65000-verdict-for-injury-suffered-in-t-bone-crash-at-intersection-choragwicki-v-szkodon\/#more-889\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 8, 2010, James Choragwicki was driving southeast on Willow Springs Road in Willow Springs, Ill., when the defendant, Marek Szkodon, was traveling southwest in his car on Archer Avenue and went through a red light.\u00a0This resulted in a T-bone collision with the front of the plaintiff\u2019s vehicle striking the passenger side of the [&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":[5,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-accidents","category-experts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$65,000 Cook County Verdict for Injury Suffered in T-Bone Crash at Intersection; Choragwicki v. 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