Settlements & Verdicts
Ofei vs. Major Trucking Company
$2.5 million settlement for a motor vehicle accident involving a 54 year old man and a major national trucking company.
On June 26, 2008, Samuel Ofei was rear-ended by a tractor trailer on Interstate 95 southbound in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after his car struck a metal object on the roadway.
Following the collision, Mr. Ofei had difficulty breathing and moving his arms and legs and required extraction from his severely crushed vehicle with the Jaws of Life, and was transported by ambulance to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital for emergency spinal surgery.
Ultimately, through intense and painful rehabilitation, he regained full use of his upper and lower extremities and is able to walk, but is left with some neurologic deficits and has not been able to return to his work as a care provider helping individuals with special needs.
Mr. Ofei had pre-existing symptomatic spinal stenosis, however; the accident caused additional neurologic injury on top of his underlying spinal stenosis and neurological defects.
