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One week after a DeKalb jury awarded a woman rear-ended by an ambulance after she stopped to allow it to pass, her lawyers persuaded a Forsyth County jury to award another client almost $250,000 in post-apportionment damages, despite what attorney Michael Goldberg described as a highly challenging fact set.

“I'm just as proud of the second one as I am of the first,” said Goldberg, whose client in the second case was deemed 40 percent liable for the accident in question. “The second one was under much more extreme circumstances.”

The first case involved a May 2011 incident in which Stephanie Nelson, then 56, was driving on Columbia Drive in Decatur when an ambulance approached from behind with its emergency lights on. Both Nelson and another driver in front of her stopped in the roadway to allow the ambulance to pass.