A woman who suffered neck and shoulder injuries, as well as a traumatic brain injury, when her vehicle was struck from behind was awarded $750,000 on Jan. 27 in binding arbitration in her Ocean County suit, Ippolito v. Lagarra.

Plaintiff Donna Ippolito was yielding to traffic on the ramp from Airport Road onto Cedarbridge Avenue in Lakewood on March 27, 2017, when her SUV was struck from behind by a pickup truck owned by JWW Leasing and driven by David Lagarra, an employee of Warshauer Electrical Supply Co.