Back injury resulted in $603,000 pretrial settlement by Buffalo woman due to a rear-end collusion two years ago. She received a cash payment of $135,000 and will receive monthly payments over the next 40 years of an additional $468,000 from insurance carriers for defendant driver who was from Eggertsville. The plaintiff did submit to surgery for a disc injury.
The settlement offer came on the eve of a negligence trial before State Supreme Court in Buffalo.