An emergency medical technician working at a ski resort who sustained back injuries in a fall on the job settled his Morris County suit, Villecco v. Mountain Creek Resort Inc., for $1.75 million on May 25, though the corporate defendant’s bankruptcy caps the plaintiff’s recovery at $1.5 million.

On March 8, 2013, plaintiff Frank Villecco, then 28, was working as an EMT for Atlantic Health, which by contract provided emergency medical services to injured skiers at Mountain Creek Resort in Sparta. While helping bring  an injured skier into a medical treatment room, he slipped on accumulated water in the room, landing on his tailbone, according to his lawyer, Gregg Alan Stone of Kirsch Gelband & Stone in Newark.