Pennsylvania
Personal Injury Law Firm

$245,000 Bethlehem-Area Car Accident Settlement

Our firm recovered $245,000 for a client seriously injured in a Bethlehem-area T-bone accident at Route 378 and Saucon Valley Road in Lehigh County.  After stopping for a red light, our client began moving when the signal changed and another vehicle struck the front driver’s side of his car. He sustained a serious neck injury that required immediate intensive-care treatment and extensive follow-up care through Lehigh Valley-area hospitals, specialists, rehabilitation providers, and pain-management physicians.

The insurance investigation was especially important because the teenage driver did not have an individual auto policy. However, he was driving someone else’s insured vehicle. We recovered $95,000 under the vehicle’s liability coverage and then obtained an additional $150,000 through underinsured motorist coverage, for a combined settlement of $245,000.

From an attorney’s perspective, the key was not treating the lack of personal insurance as the end of the coverage analysis. We identified the policy covering the vehicle, evaluated the client’s separate UIM protection, and used the medical evidence concerning future treatment to pursue both sources of compensation in the proper sequence.

Read the full $245,000 Bethlehem-area car accident case result.