Personal Injury Law

Interstate 5 Bus Accident Injures Female Passenger, Part 3 of 6.

By Moseley Collins, Esq.

(Please note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the proceedings.)

V. ECONOMIC DAMAGES
Past Medical:
Meridian Resource Company $ 386,407.13
Trauma Medical Group of Roseville $ 7,017.96
Patient Copays:
Sutter Auburn Home Health $ 137.88
Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital $ 167.55
Central Anesthesia Medical Group, Inc. $ 401.70
Roseville Cardiology $ 329.22
Radiological Associates of Sacramento $ 273.46
Sutter Roseville Medical Center $ 4,236.80
Sutter Emergency Medical Association $ 71.01
CA Emergency Physicians of Roseville $ 62.33
Diagnostic Pathology $ 39.88
Total Copays $ 5,719.83
Travel expenses $ 881.00
Total Past Medical $ 400,025.92
Total Conservative Future Medical $ 146,658.49
TOTAL MEDICAL DAMAGES $ 546,684.41

VI. CURRENT CONDITION
Currently, NANCY is a fraction of the woman that she was prior to the bus accident. Prior the bus trip, NANCY would wake up each day at 5:00 a.m. and put in 10-12 hours of work on her farm. She had no lung, kidney, or heart problems. She had run her farm since 1969. Her daily duties on the farm included, but were not limited to, the following:

1. Fixing fences
2. Cutting wood
3. Irrigation repair and clean out
4. Mowing
5. Fertilizing
6. Planting trees and crops
7. Unloading plant material
8. Tending to their farm animals

Today, NANCY can only perform about 15 - 20 percent of her prior responsibilities on her farm. She will start a task and quickly become out of breath, tired, and weak, causing her to rest and not finish the job. For instance, when she tries to plant trees or work on the farm?s irrigation systems, she is quickly forced to rest and try to regain her strength. Most days she is unable to continue. She has lost her vigor, vitality, and stamina to work. She is up many nights coughing and not sleeping. She cannot enjoy the scuba dives or bicycle trips she used to go on because she cannot climb the cliffs for the dives, and she cannot load and unload her bicycles and gear for her trips.

Full post as published by Sacramento Injury Lawyer Blog on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).