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Firm Obtains Recover For Social Worker Who Was Severely Injured While Driving A Jeep Wrangler.

A social worker was driving her 1997 Jeep Wrangler to work when suddenly and unexpectantly the Jeep hit a patch of standing water and hydroplaned causing the Jeep to spin out of control, strike a ditch and roll over.  During the rollover, the rear end of the jeep impacted the roadway causing the drivers seatback to collapse thus causing the driver - otherwise fully seat belted - to be catapulted out of the seat and ejected through the jeep's rear plastic canvas panel.  As a result of the seat-back collapse, the social worker sustained a serious brain injury as well as a spinal fracture thus rendering her a paraplegic.

Ricci, Leopold was able to prove that the seatback design of the Jeep Wrangler seat was severely insufficient to provide a reasonable degree of protection to an occupant when the vehicle is impacted from behind.