Before November 26, 2019, our 66-year-old client could not sit still.
Whether it was beating his 35-year-old son in sprinting races, playing cricket, climbing mountains, working in the field for the U.S. government, working as a handyperson or playing with his three grandchildren, our client was always on the move.
But in the early evening of November 26, 2019, our client’s life changed forever.
The car he was driving was struck by another car making an illegal left turn. The injuries our client suffered required him to undergo three serious back surgeries and extensive pain management treatment.
Today, our client struggles to get out of bed, cannot do any of the recreational activities he once loved, no longer works for the federal government or as a handyperson, earns a fraction of the income he used to, and can no longer hold his grandchildren in his arms.
Bhaveen Jani, Stark & Stark
Recently, a little over four years after our client suffered life-changing injuries in that crash, Stark & Stark shareholder Bhaveen Jani and his team obtained justice for him and his family by securing a $2,500,000 settlement in a lawsuit he filed regarding the crash as the case was set to go to trial.
The case, however, was no slam dunk. A year before the crash, our client had three lumbar epidural injections and consulted a surgeon regarding his back pain. To combat the defense’s possible legal arguments regarding our client’s prior back issues, Bhaveen and his team engaged an epidemiologist with a forensic medicine background to establish a substantially higher probability that our client’s injuries and surgeries stemmed from the crash rather than any pre-existing issues.
“This was a complicated case from both an economic and non-economic damages standpoint,” said Jani. “We hired the best medical and economic experts in the field to unquestionably prove that our client suffered significant and new injuries, given his prior medical history. The defense recognized that our client was genuine and likable, which forced them to settle on the eve of trial because of how likely it would have been for a jury to find in his favor and award him significant damages.”
In addition to the epidemiologist, Bhaveen and his team obtained a life care plan for our client, hired a neurosurgeon to provide an independent medical examination, retained a forensic economist and vocational rehabilitation counselor to calculate our client’s future economic loss, and worked with outside companies to assemble a mediation video, a “Day in the Life” video, and medical illustrations of our client’s surgeries.
“I love what I do because of clients like this one,” said Jani. “I cannot turn back the hands of time, but I can make sure our clients get the compensation they deserve for lifelong injuries caused by others’ wrongdoing. The attorneys at Stark & Stark will not hesitate to invest our time and resources in our clients’ cases to help secure optimal results for them.”
