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32 ¦ FEBRUARY 1, 2021 VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS

Lawyer Clinches $100,000
For Musican’s Injured Finger

By Robert Storace

Mark Southwick, who has a guitar business, injured his left little finger and ring finger in a 2019 car accident. He

M recently settled the case for the policy limit of $100,000. Courtesy photo
ark Southwick’s hobby and longtime hand, his nondominant hand, it had a profound
interest in guitars helped him clinch a effect on what he’s been doing his whole life, which
$100,000 settlement in a minor two-car was playing the guitar,” said Serrano, a West Hart-
accident. ford solo practitioner.
If not for Southwick’s long history with guitars, Serrano continued: “He had his own guitar busi-
plaintiffs counsel John Serrano conceded the 2019 ness and was good enough to play in local bands.
accident wouldn’t have been worth the $100,000 He had been doing that for decades.”
underinsured policy limit. The case was resolved Jan. 12, pre-lawsuit,
“Although this was, in some ways, a minor in- with insurance adjuster Matt Nolan of Geico In-
jury to his little finger and ring finger on his left surance Co., in part, due to the three-page letter

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