N.J. Jury Awards $8.75 Million to Casino Dealer Injured in Highway Crash
Lawyers USA › November 03, 2010
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A New Jersey jury has found highway authority dispatchers and state police negligent in responding to a multi-car crash that severed a casino dealer's leg.
Janet Henebema, a 37-year-old dealer at the Borgota Casino in Atlantic City, was driving home early on the morning of Dec. 4, 2005, when her car skidded out of control on the Atlantic City Expressway during a snowstorm. She clipped a vehicle that had also spun out on the icy highway. Henebema climbed out of her car after her airbags exploded, and was walking on the shoulder of the highway when another car caromed off a guardrail and pushed her under her car, severing her right leg.See the full content of this document
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N.J. Jury Awards $8.75 Million to Casino Dealer Injured in Highway Crash
She was hospitalized for six weeks and underwent multiple surgeries. Her right leg had to be amputated above the knee and her left leg was badly mangled.
The defense blamed the collisions on the weather, and argued that there were accid...See the full content of this document
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