A $4.1 million settlement was reached on Feb. 1 in a Middlesex County case, Fernandez-Hoppe v. Depena, concerning injuries sustained in an intersection collision.
On Dec. 18, 2019, plaintiffs Lynannett Fernandez and her husband, Orlando Hoppe-Bermeo, were driving on South Main Street in Cranbury when defendant Wamdell Depena of of Reliable Office Solutions NJ Inc. disregarded a stop sign and pulled into their path, according to plaintiffs attorney Daniel N. Epstein of Epstein Ostrove in Edison. Hoppe-Bermeo was operating the vehicle with his wife in the passenger seat when Depena struck their car, Epstein said.
