A woman who claims back pain from a car crash was so severe that she contemplated suicide has won coverage for costly spinal surgery, after a judge called “shocking” an arbitral decision denying her an emergent hearing.

Overturning the arbitrator, Mercer County Superior Court Judge Andrew Smithson termed the one-paragraph decision “grossly insufficient for purposes of a complete record under anybody’s definition of the term.”

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