At Stanley Law Offices, it’s always personal. We measure our work by one standard: what we actually recover for injured people across Upstate New York and Pennsylvania. This result belongs to a client we’ll call Susan.*
Susan was driving for work, traveling 65 mph down the highway, when the driver in the left lane fell asleep and sideswiped her car.
Some of what that crash did to Susan showed up on imaging. Much of it did not. Her workers’ compensation case was established for injuries to her upper back and neck, a contusion of the chest, headaches, a concussion, PTSD, and anxiety. She was never able to return to work.
Concussions, PTSD, and anxiety are exactly the injuries insurance companies love to question. There is no cast, no fusion hardware, no scar to photograph. But these are often the injuries that actually end careers, and they ended Susan’s. We documented them the way we document a fracture: thoroughly, through her treating providers, and without apology.
Because Susan was on the job at the time of the crash, she had two cases running at once: a workers’ compensation claim and a personal injury claim against the sleeping driver. We handled both. Her comp case resolved through a Section 32 settlement, closing out that claim on her terms, and her injury case settled for $125,000 on top of it.
Running those two cases together is not a clerical detail. The comp carrier holds a lien against the injury recovery, and a badly sequenced settlement on one side can cost real money on the other. Coordinating them is how you protect a client’s bottom line, and it is why we handle workers’ comp and personal injury under one roof.
A driver who falls asleep at 65 mph makes a choice long before the crash happens: to keep driving when they had no business being on the road. Susan paid for that choice. We made sure she did not pay for it alone.
*Our client’s name has been changed to protect her privacy.
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Past results do not guarantee any future outcome, and every case is different.
