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A $4.1 million settlement was reached on Feb. 1 in a Middlesex County case, Fernandez-Hoppe v. Depena, concerning injuries sustained…
April 27, 2023 at 09:00 AM
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A $4.1 million settlement was reached on Feb. 1 in a Middlesex County case, Fernandez-Hoppe v. Depena, concerning injuries sustained in an intersection collision.
On Dec. 18, 2019, plaintiffs Lynannett Fernandez and her husband, Orlando Hoppe-Bermeo, were driving on South Main Street in Cranbury when defendant Wamdell Depena of of Reliable Office Solutions NJ Inc. disregarded a stop sign and pulled into their path, according to plaintiffs attorney Daniel N. Epstein of Epstein Ostrove in Edison. Hoppe-Bermeo was operating the vehicle with his wife in the passenger seat when Depena struck their car, Epstein said.
Hoppe-Bermeo's expert in orthopedic surgery, Dr. Nirav Shah, stated that as a result of the vehicle crash, he has suffered L4-L5 post-traumatic disc herniation, permanent internal and external cervical scarring, intractable cervialgia with radiculopathy, and that he required future spinal fusion surgery at the C5-C6 level. A psychologist and neuropsychologist specialist, Dr. Michael Natale, stated that Hoppe-Bermeo suffered from predominant depression and anxiety due to his injuries sustained from the crash.
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