Amy Thornton v. Pitney Bowes Inc. & Indemnity Insurance Company of North America: A woman who suffered a fractured skull in an accident on her way to the airport for a business trip has recovered $1.2 million in a workers’ compensation settlement with her employer.
Amy Thornton, 45, of Fairfield, was heading south on the Merritt Parkway in Norwalk at 4:30 a.m. on Jan. 15, 2008, when she lost control of her vehicle on the icy road and hit a guardrail. According to Thornton’s lawyer, Lawrence “Larry” Sgrignari of Gesmonde, Pietrosimone & Sgrignari in Hamden, Thornton got out of her car and called for roadside assistance.
