A senior partner at a Middlebury-based law firm has secured a $400,000 settlement for a 48-year-old woman who suffered an injury to her thoracic spine following a head-on collision in Farmington in 2017.

In a case that hinged on whether plaintiff Shunjin Yan’s injury stemmed from the two-car crash, Yan’s attorney, Joseph Foti Jr. of Moore, O’Brien & Foti, said he was able to push back on the defense. To do this, he sent his client to a doctor, who established a causal relationship.