$1 Million Settlement Collected By Fair Lawn Driver Rear-Ended Stopping For Pedestrian
A Fair Lawn driver collected a $1 million settlement for a rear-end crash that his attorney said forced him to change jobs.
Gjon Lahu, 35, stopped to let a pedestrian cross Fair Lawn Avenue in September 2017 when his vehicle was struck from behind.
Lahu was seriously injured and required physical therapy, chiropractic treatment, epidural injections and other surgery as a result, his attorney, Mark McBratney of Siegel Law in Ridgewood, told NJLaw.com.
Lahu, who was an auto mechanic at the time, had to take a less-strenuous job as a school custodian because of his injuries, McBratney said.
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Doctors On Netflix Show 'Lenox Hill' Rid NJ Grandmother, 89, Of Massive Head Tumor
For 25 years, Lorenza De La Villa of Teaneck barely noticed the small tumor in the back of her head.
She found it in 1995, when she was 64 years old.
It was benign. It didn't hurt. It never grew.
"She did what doctors told her to do," said one of De La Villa's 22 grandchildren, Michelle Tavares, of Weehawken. "She went for MRIs every year and saw a neurologist every six months.
"Since it wasn't growing, causing pain or neurological impairment, doctors didn't have her do anything about it."
For 25 years, that's the way things were. De La Villa's "little egg" rarely crossed her …
Hunterdon County Woman, 27, Seeks $25K Week Before Life-Saving Intestinal Surgery
The Hunterdon County community is rallying to support a Flemington native who is more than $25,000 short on donations needed for surgery to treat her rare medical condition.
Jacqueline “Jacqui” Heid, 27, has a condition mostly resulting from Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome (SMAS), which compresses the first portion of the small intestine — called the duodenum — between the Superior Mesenteric Artery and the aorta, causing severe bloating and pain after eating, she told NJ.com.
Heid’s condition, which onset after she was involved in a serious car accident in 2013, affects just .013 perce…
