The NY Daily News reports:
An upstate Hasidic woman won a whopping $5 million legal settlement in a lawsuit over a Sept. 11, 2007, crash with a Brooklyn kosher-meat delivery truck in which she was seriously injured.
Eva Bickel, 50, suffered a brain injury and broken bones when the truck crossed yellow lines on a Monroe, N.Y., road and collided head-on with the livery cab she was in, according to her suit.
“[The driver] definitely wasn’t acting very kosher,” Bickel’s lawyer, Herb Subin, said yesterday.
The married mother of three children underwent four surgeries and spent more than six weeks in a hospital and nursing home.
The case had already gone to trial in Brooklyn Supreme Court when the truck company, Alle Processing Corp., settled on Tuesday.
“This woman needs a lifetime of future care and the pain and suffering was substantial,” Subin said.
(Source: NY Daily News)
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The lawsuit was against the insurance company of the truck owner, not with the owner. The settlement was also between her and the auto insurance company — who is paying the settlement.
She’s a young woman. Refuah Shleima.
Actually that isn’t much if indeed she is permanently disabled. Assuming a prudent investment of the money (not looking for any “madoff” style help), she’ll get a taxable return of 5% per year, which comes to $125K per year, which is a middle class salary UNLESS you have to spend most of it on medical costs, household help, personal attendant (how crippled was she). In addition, insurance companies that paid her costs often can get repaid from the settlement. Legal fees are customarily about a third. Not really whopping when you add it up (again, assuming she is serious disabled for the rest of her life).
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Trying my best – Your comment expresses a point of view that contributes to the litigiousness of our society and to the high insurance costs we all pay.
The law suit was against the delivery company and driver. True, the insurance company pays the damages and under subrogation handled the litigation; but to cavalierly dismiss all this by saying the suit was really against the insurance company makes it oh so easy to fall into the mistaken belief that law suits are nisht geferlich . . . and are only a burden to the rich insurance companies anyway.
Yonason, the woman is permanently injured she’s entitled to the money by todays standards…
I dont know if this article should have been posted but her name , i’m positive shouldnt have been