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24 ¦ DECEMBER 7, 2020 VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS

How Cheshire Attorney Secured $225,000
Settlement for Woman’s Wrist Injuries

By Robert Storace

Tammara McMahon-Schriefer was injured after this Subaru Outback collided with another vehicle. She settled her

I case for $225,000. Courtesy photo
t was Tammara McMahon-Schriefer’s livelihood and someone who is a concert violinist. In our case,
as both an accountant and gardener that swayed gardening was not just a hobby but something my
the defense to give her $225,000 from a two-car client received a degree in and specialized in. It
accident in which she needed two surgeries on her was more significant for her; that was our strategy,”
left wrist, her lawyer said. Bartlett said Wednesday.
Plaintiffs counsel and Cheshire-based solo prac- Bartlett continued: “The wrist fracture prevented
titioner Frank Bartlett Jr. stressed the fact that her from doing heavy lifting or weeding or digging
McMahon-Schriefer used that wrist for her ac- or anything associated with gardening. This was her
counting job and her gardening. The accident, he livelihood.”
said, diminished her income. When the insurance adjuster offered $163,000 of
“I tried to make the correlation to the insurance the $250,000 insurance policy, Bartlett knew he had
adjuster between someone who just plays the violin an ace in the hole with his client’s injuries to her left

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