{"id":894,"date":"2013-06-03T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury-robertkreisman.lawblogger.net\/?p=894"},"modified":"2013-06-02T13:32:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T18:32:40","slug":"268000-jury-verdict-in-car-crash-in-chicagos-chinatown-ramirez-v-spalla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/268000-jury-verdict-in-car-crash-in-chicagos-chinatown-ramirez-v-spalla\/","title":{"rendered":"$268,000 Jury Verdict in Car Crash in Chicago\u2019s Chinatown; Ramirez v. Spalla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On Dec. 26, 2005, Leobardo Ramirez, age 36, was stopped on eastbound Cermak Road at a red light at Wentworth Avenue in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinatown,_Chicago\">Chinatown<\/a>.<span>\u00a0<\/span>He was rear-ended by the defendant, James Spalla, who contended he was going less than 5 mph at impact.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ramirez claimed that he suffered permanent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2764347\/\">discogenic low back pain<\/a> (not operated on), with referred pain in his lower extremity.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Ramirez claimed to have lost ten months of work as a high school janitor.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The defendant Spalla, age 33, was a Chicago firefighter who had just gotten off his overnight shift at the Chinatown firehouse located on Cermak just west of where the crash took place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/268000-jury-verdict-in-car-crash-in-chicagos-chinatown-ramirez-v-spalla\/#more-894\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Dec. 26, 2005, Leobardo Ramirez, age 36, was stopped on eastbound Cermak Road at a red light at Wentworth Avenue in Chinatown.\u00a0He was rear-ended by the defendant, James Spalla, who contended he was going less than 5 mph at impact.\u00a0 Ramirez claimed that he suffered permanent discogenic low back pain (not operated on), with [&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":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-accidents","category-insurance-claims"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$268,000 Jury Verdict in Car Crash in Chicago\u2019s Chinatown; Ramirez v. 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