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$1M Settlement Ends Negligent Entrustment Car Wreck Case Days Before Trial

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April 28, 2019
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$1M Settlement Ends Negligent Entrustment Car Wreck Case Days Before Trial

Stuart Mones and Kathleen Mones of Mones Law Group (MLG), car accident lawyers in Atlanta, Georgia

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A $1 million agreement, reached just days earlier than a scheduled trial, prevented further litigation in a case involving claims that a lady’s choice to mortgage her car to a chum after a night of tough partying led to an uncongenial head-on collision break that left a woman with a couple of damaged bones and permanent accidents.

The settlement closing Friday obviated a DeKalb County trial set to begin Monday in which the legal professionals for plaintiff Alice Ward had been prepared to argue that the at-fault motive force and the automobile’s proprietor “had been sitting around all night time drinking and smoking a whole lot of pot,” said Buckley Beal companion Andrew Beal.
“The proprietor stated she passed out and by no means gave consent to pressure her car, however, the different one stated she gave her the keys to move to get a few greater,” Beal stated.
The driving force, Dora Sosa-Aguilar, ended up riding the borrowed Mercedes round for numerous hours earlier than slamming right into a Mini Cooper waiting at a Chamblee, Georgia, stoplight.
The effect drove the small automobile’s the front stop and engine block again into the passenger compartment, shattering the legs and ankles of driving force Alice Ward and fracturing several vertebrae as well as bones in her hand and shoulder and tearing a rotator cuff, among other accidents.
“It was a thrilling case; what it came right down to became negligent entrustment and the law on permissive use of a car,” stated Beal, who treated the case with firm accomplice Nicholas Smith.
Sosa-Aguilar’s attorney, R. Christopher Harrison of Marietta’s Downey & Cleveland, did now not respond to a request for comment.
The Mercedes’ proprietor and co-defendant Norien Aboneaaj—who at one factor claimed that the automobile was stolen while she slept—become represented by J. Blake Ledbetter and Joseph Conoscienti of Decatur’s Cognoscenti & Ledbetter; Jason D. Darneille of Gower Wooten & Darneille; and Brantley Rowlen and Michael Denney of Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith.

Rowlen stated his company turned into introduced aboard with the aid of the extra-coverage insurer for Aboneaaj’s father, “but we all labored collectively in defensive and furthering [the family’s] pastimes.”
Aboneaaj always desired to resolve the case and attended two unsuccessful mediations, Rowlen cited.
“While the case had a fantastically simple fact sample, its practical actual-global software supplied the opportunity of some very complicated insurance and series issues, and we believe all parties understood their relative hazard and the benefit of resolving the case on their own terms in place of on the ones of a DeKalb County jury,” he said via email.
According to Beal and courtroom filings, the coincidence befell one morning in May 2016 after Aboneaaj and Sosa-Aguilar had spent the night drinking and smoking marijuana.
“Aboneaaj was fully aware that Sosa-Aguilar could not power due to the medication and alcohol she had taken in her presence,” the plaintiffs part of the pretrial order said. “Further, she that defendant Sosa-Aguilar become an unfit motive force due to her several accidents and site visitors citations, which the two had discussed.”
The plaintiff’s account said Aboneaaj had sent her pal to shop for greater rolling papers and “so she can be on my own with her lover.”
After driving around for about nine a.M. Sosa-Aguilar hit Ward’s car.
Beal said each driver were taken to Grady Memorial Hospital’s emergency room, where Sosa-Aguilar was observed to be intoxicated.
She was cited for failure to hold lane and inflicting an accident but was no longer charged with driving under the have an effect on, he said. Ward spent 11 days in Grady’s Intensive Care Unit and more than a week at the Emory Rehabilitation Hospital “observed via months of rehabilitation at domestic and in physical therapy.”
Ward’s husband used up his paid break day to care for her, in the long run taking early retirement from his position at Emory University to care for her full-time, the order stated.
Her scientific bills handed $311,000 and might maintain to accrue, it said.

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