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 Marie.*
Marie was stopped on a rural road, waiting to make a turn, when a commercial vehicle slammed into the back of her car.
The impact left her with a compression fracture at L2 and disc bulging at L3-4. Her doctors treated the injuries without surgery. The insurance company saw that as a reason to pay less. Marie lived a different reality: chronic back pain that ended her working life. She was never able to return to her job.
That is exactly the kind of case insurance carriers try to discount. No operation, no hardware, no scar, so they argue the injury must be minor. We refused to let the absence of a surgery define the value of what Marie lost.
Instead, we built the case around the damages that mattered most: the wages she had already lost and the income her injuries would take from her for the rest of her working years. A fractured vertebra does not care whether an adjuster believes you. The medical evidence and the wage documentation told the story clearly.
We completed depositions and prepared the case as if it were going in front of a jury, because that preparation is what creates leverage at the settlement table. At mediation, the case settled for $300,000.
No settlement can hand Marie her career back. But this result gave her financial stability after the crash took her ability to earn, and it proves something we tell every client: you do not need a surgery to have a serious case. You need a firm willing to prove what the injury actually took from you.
*Our client’s name has been changed to protect her privacy.
Hurt Because Someone Else Was Careless? Talk to Us First.
Talk to us before you talk to the insurance company. The consultation is free, and you pay nothing unless we win. Call Stanley Law Offices at 1-800-608-3333 or reach us online. It’s always personal.
