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Jury sides with plaintiff in stop-sign crash
On June 10, a jury awarded $4,700 to a man who claimed cervical and lumbar injuries in a collision with a sport utility vehicle. Jerry L. Bell was struck by Aysha al-Banna Mutawe after she allegedly ran a stop sign. The front of Mutawe's SUV struck the passenger side of the sedan. Bell claimed neck and back sprains and strains, as well as cervical and lumbar disc displacement without myelopathy, unspecified thoracic disk disorder and muscle spasm. He was treated with chiropractic adjustments 12 times and with therapeutic exercise 13 times.
