A sympathetic plaintiff and a defendant who admitted error may have been factors in a record $20 million settlement for a 24-year-old woman rendered paraplegic when her car was rear-ended by a United Parcel Service truck two years ago. The settlement is the highest recorded in the state of Illinois for a case with injuries involving paraplegia.
May 04, 2000 at 12:00 AM
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Attorney Paul B. Episcope shepherded a record $20 million settlement for a client rendered paraplegic during a rush-hour wreck with a United Parcel Service truck in Illinois two years ago.
Allison Lester, 24, was paralyzed from the waist down May 11, 1998, when the Saturn she was driving east on I-55 to her job in Rosemont was rear ended by a loaded UPS double-tractor-trailer near Joliet Road, according to the lawsuit filed against the delivery service and driver Jeffrey Krueger.
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