Arbitrators have awarded $760,364 to a 53-year-old Norwalk man who suffered lower back and spine injuries after another motorist T-boned the car he was driving on Saugatuck Avenue in Westport in 2015.

Agustin Sevillano, the attorney representing plaintiff Ivan Zapata, said his biggest obstacle was making his case to the arbitrators that his client was in pain, and suffered injuries from the accident, even though he didn’t have surgery right after the crash.