A $1.06 million settlement was paid on Feb. 4 in Donoso v. Universe Transportation Corp., a Hudson County injury suit filed against a bus company by a passenger who fell while in transit.
On July 24, 2017, plaintiff Lourdes Donoso boarded a small private transit bus owned by Universe Transportation Corp. of Fairview and driven by company employee Justino Basora at 69th Street and Bergenline Avenue in Guttenberg. After boarding the bus with her daughter, the bus began moving before she had taken her seat, and then stopped abruptly, causing her to fall backwards onto her back and sustain back and neck injuries, said her lawyer, Luis Martinez of LaBarbiera & Martinez in North Bergen.
