While walking along Evergreen Place in East Orange, New Jersey, a woman tripped and fell on uneven sidewalk. She was taken by ambulance to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, NJ, suffering a tear in her right shoulder and disc bulges and herniations in her back. For her shoulder, she underwent an arthroscopic surgery with debridement and rotator cuff repair, while her injured back required epidural steroid injections and medial branch blocks.
Davis, Saperstein & Salomon, P.C. Partner Adam B. Lederman hired medical experts to author narrative reports describing the client’s injuries and proving their permanent nature. The client had a past fall incident about a decade earlier that had also caused back injuries, so the reports also helped Adam Lederman prove that this fall directly caused additional injuries. The firm also retained an engineering expert, who, after inspecting the broken sidewalk, found that it was cracked and uneven and its poor maintenance had caused the client to trip and fall.
Partner Adam B. Lederman filed suit in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Essex County, and proved the sidewalk had been improperly maintained. With the help of hired experts, Adam Lederman won the woman a $320,000 settlement for her injuries, pain, and suffering.
Settlements are often limited by the total available insurance coverage. Insurance company adjusters and their lawyers often defend cases by claiming that a client was negligent and could have avoided being injured by arguing comparative negligence on the part of an injured client; or that their pain and suffering was caused by pre-existing medical conditions or prior injuries. Despite those defenses, the Davis, Saperstein & Salomon, PC lawyers won their client’s injury claim. Each client’s case is unique. Results may differ because of different facts, circumstances and available insurance coverage.
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Medical Glossary
Arthroscopic surgery: A surgical procedure used to diagnose and treat joint problems, involving making a small incision to allow an arthroscope to access the problem.
Disc bulge: Bulging discs are a condition in which the inner portion of a spinal disc remains contained in the outer portion of a spinal disc. The outer shell often becomes weaker, and the disc begins to bulge to one side of the spinal canal or flatten. Many experience bulging discs after an injury.
Disc herniation: A disc herniation occurs when a portion of the disc, which acts as a shock absorber for the spinal bones, is pushed into the spinal canal. While some disc herniations may result in no pain or discomfort, others can result in excruciating pain and numbness.
Epidural steroid injection: Epidural steroid injections are a minimally invasive procedure that can relieve neck, arm, back and leg pain. The steroid calms down the irritated nerve that is causing the pain and swelling. Relief from the injections typically last for three months or more.
Medial branch block: A type of spinal injection to temporarily block the pain signals coming from the nerves found in the joints of the spine.
Evergreen Place in East Orange, NJ
