After a defendant was unable to reconcile their testimony with photographs taken from the scene of a motor vehicle collision that left plaintiff Tony Robert Lo Coco with a traumatic brain injury as well as damage to his spine, the parties eventually settled for $2.5 million.

On Aug. 20 2015, Lo Coco, a 29-year-old Comcast sales representative, was riding his motorcycle eastbound on Stickney Point Road in Sarasota, just as Edwin Allen Davies, a Virginia resident vacationing in Siesta Key, was pulling out of a nearby shopping mall in a sedan rented from Hertz. Although Lo Coco — who was not wearing a helmet at the time — jammed on his brakes to avoid striking Davies’ vehicle, he nonetheless was flung from his motorcycle and wound up violently impacting the car.

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