Kreisman Law Offices Professional Corporation
The Illinois personal injury lawsuit of Karyn Hilborn v. Alan Susdorf and Merchants Solutions, Inc., 07 L 1058, received a $130,000 verdict against the defendant car driver and his employer. The car accident occurred at a Glendale Heights intersection and involved both the defendant driver’s vehicle and the plaintiff’s bicycle.
At the time of the Illinois car accident, 62 year-old Karyn Hilborn was riding her bicycle on a sidewalk along Bloomingdale Road in Glendale Heights. Meanwhile the defendant driver, Alan Susdorf, was approaching a stop sign at the intersection of Bloomingdale Road and Drummond Avenue. However, Susdorf failed to stop his vehicle behind the indicated line and instead rolled his vehicle forward into the crosswalk, striking Hilborn and her bicycle.
Hilborn was unable to avoid Susdorf’s vehicle and ended up striking the passenger side of his car. As a result of the crosswalk collision, Hilborn fractured her left tibia plateau and tore her left medial collateral ligament. Hilborn’s case was complicated by a prior history of arthritis in her left knee and doctors have said she will require a knee replacement in the future as a result of her recent intersection accident.