A 44-year-old woman was injured in Pasadena when another driver reversed out of a driveway at high speed, colliding with her vehicle. Despite disputes over liability and treatment, CAG recovered $1.5 million to support her surgeries and long-term recovery.
Plaintiff, a 44-year-old female at the time of the subject accident, was driving her vehicle on a public street in Pasadena, CA; during which time, the Defendant who at the time was backing her vehicle out of a private driveway at a high speed of travel, caused the back driver’s side of her vehicle to collide with the front passenger side of Plaintiff’s vehicle.
The intensity of the impact has caused Plaintiff thousands of dollars in personal damages. It is manifested that the Defendant paid no attention to the traffic around him, thereby precipitating a collision with Plaintiff’s vehicle. The Defendant was operating the vehicle in such a reckless manner, in violation of the following California Vehicle Codes: 22106 – “No person shall start a vehicle stopped, standing, or parked on a highway, nor shall any person back a vehicle on a highway until such movement can be made with reasonable safety.” 22350 – “ No person shall drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent having due regard for weather, visibility, the traffic on, and the surface and width of, the highway, and in no event at a speed which endangers the safety of persons or property.” 23103 – “(a) A person who drives a vehicle upon a highway in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property is guilty of reckless driving.
As a result of her automobile accident, Plaintiff suffered injuries to her neck, upper back, middle back, lower back, bilateral forearm, bilateral foot, left knee, along with headaches (with associated concussion). Plaintiff’s injuries were significant enough to incur $654,000 in medical expenses. Plaintiff required lumbar spine surgery and left knee surgery, and it was recommended that Plaintiff undergo a lumbar spinal cord stimulator trial, to where she now has ongoing cervical and lumbar spine pain, for which she will require intermittent chiropractic and physical therapy treatment in the future, along with pain relieving procedures.
Defendant disputed Plaintiff’s claims for injuries and damages. Defendant also disputed the reasonableness and necessity of Plaintiff’s medical treatment. However, through the testimony of expert doctors, it was determined that Plaintiff’s injuries and treatment were reasonable and necessary, considering the severity of the impact. Mr. Khakshooy was able to recover $1,500,000 from Defendant’s insurance carrier for Plaintiff.
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