Featured In: The Daily Journal
Auto Accident/Amputation Case:
Contreras v. State Of California
The Settlement:
$9 Million
Case Synopsis:
The state has agreed to pay $9 million to a teenage girl who lost both legs after crashing her car into a broken guardrail along Interstate 10 in 2006.
Priscilla Contreras was 16 when a jagged metal railing ripped through the driver’s-side door and rendered the high school senior a double amputee.
The case was featured in a previously published article in The Daily Journal.