A pedestrian who suffered a traumatic brain injury after he was hit by a car in a supermarket parking lot received a $1.275 million settlement in his Bergen County suit, Kunzweiler v. Acme Markets, on Nov. 15.

On Aug. 16, 2018, Richard Kunzweiler of Hackensack, then 75, was struck by a car driven by Michael Carangi in the parking lot of an Acme supermarket in Saddle Brook. Kunzweiler sustained a traumatic brain injury, a C7 vertebral fracture, a ligament tear at C6-7, a spinal cord injury and bulging discs, the suit claimed.

He had an emergent anterior and posterior discectomy, laminectomy and fusion at C3-4-5-6-7-T1 with insertion of plates, rods and screws, said Corey Dietz of Brach Eichler in Roseland, who represented Kunzweiler along with the firm's Edward Capozzi.