Robert Franco v. Interstate Mill and Lumber Yard: A building contractor was shopping for supplies at Stamford’s Interstate Mill and Lumber Yard when an employee threw a 70 pound bundle of insulation from the second story of a barn. The bale of six rolls knocked Robert Franco to the ground. Left dazed, he refused immediate medical attention. But over the next few days, he developed neck pain and other symptoms.
When Franco’s injuries were more carefully analyzed, Dr. Paul Apostolides, a neurosurgeon in Greenwich, found the plaintiff had sustained a herniatedintervertebral disc injurybetween the fifth and sixth vertebrae. It required an anterior cervical dissectomy with bone graft fusion from bone harvested from Franco’s hip. It also required cervical plating of three other vertebrae in an operation through the front of Franco’s neck.
