In Cano-Amparo v. Ji, a Middlesex County jury returned a $2.8 million verdict on Aug. 11 for a New Brunswick man who suffered lower back injuries after his vehicle was struck from behind.

Jesus Cano-Amparo was driving south on Route 27 near Bennetts Lane in Franklin Township on October 16, 2018, when he slowed down for a traffic signal and was struck in the rear by a car driven by Sungchul Ji. Ji struck Cano-Amparo’s vehicle with sufficient force that it was pushed into the vehicle ahead of his, said Cano-Amparo’s lawyer, Eugene Wishnic of Wishnic & Jerushalmy in New Brunswick.