Municipal Workers Awarded $3.25 Million For Truck Accident

Two Buffalo Department of Street Sanitation workers whose garbage truck was hit by a commercial vehicle that broke a red light have obtained a compensation settlement of $3.25 million.

The workers were performing their sanitation duties at the time of the accident. They were seriously injured and both required spinal fusion surgeries as part of their treatment for  back, knee, neck and head injuries.

The defendant’s insurance company did not want to settle but an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process over eighteen months that finished when it was clear that the case was going to go to trial.