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Canadian Court Awards Woman $300,000 After Crash Exacerbates Her Fibromyalgia
Monday 24 February 2020
From Canadian news outlet Nanaimo News Bulletin:
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Court awards Nanaimo woman $300,000 after crash exacerbates her fibromyalgia
Judgment follows 2015 motor vehicle accident on Turner Road
A Nanaimo woman whose vehicle was rear-ended by a man driving without insurance has been awarded close to $300,000 by the courts.
The accident happened on Turner Road back in October 2015, but Justice Robin Baird made his judgment Tuesday in B.C. Supreme Court in Nanaimo.
The woman, now 28, is a teacher with Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools. She was rear-ended turning in to her driveway by a defendant who was “wholly responsible,” according to the court’s judgment.
The woman, who already suffered from fibromyalgia, sustained soft-tissue injuries to her neck, back and shoulder in the crash, followed by headaches, anxiety and fatigue. After hearing medical evidence from three doctors, the judge decided that “the pain that she experiences to this part of her anatomy has become chronic, in part at least because the soft tissue injury has interacted negatively with her fibromyalgia in a continuous and persistent cycle that would likely not have occurred but for the accident.”
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