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How Bridgeport Attorney Clinched
$687,500 Settlement for Injured Client

By Robert Storace

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iability was not an issue after defendant Ar- Bridgeport, said the defense claimed his client “was
istotle Proskinitopoulos rear-ended Alcione rushed to surgery.”
Goncalves’ Ford F-150 truck in Fairfield in “We said my client’s doctors followed her treat-
August 2017, as the driver admitted to being dis- ing physician’s recommendations,” the attorney
tracted because he was changing the radio station. said.
Even though the defense didn’t take issue with Another defense argument, Rosnick said, was to
accepting responsibility, it pushed back against point out that his 43-year-old client had a prior his-
what Goncalves did soon after the two-car colli- tory of back pain. That too, the attorney said, was
sion, claiming she had surgery too soon on her countered “by the treating physician, who clearly
lower back. opined that the cause of the disc issues and the ne-
Plaintiffs counsel MIchael Rosnick, a partner cessity for surgery was causally related to the 2017
with Miller, Rosnick, D’Amico, August & Butler in motor vehicle collision.”

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