Lima v. Marshall

The following facts are not in dispute. On February 1, 2001, the plaintiff, Esmeralda Lima, suffered a whiplash injury when the car she was driving was struck by a vehicle driven by the defendant, Jack Marshall (the February accident). One month later, on March 2, 2001, after incurring $436.35 in medical expenses related to the February accident, but before *425beginning a scheduled course of recommended physical therapy, Lima was involved in a second, unrelated car accident (the March accident). As a result of the March accident, Lima experienced low and middle back pain in addition to an…