Johnson v. Meade

I cannot agree that this plaintiff should have a second chance to recover substantial damages simply because the jury failed to award her a little something for two bruises on her leg.

Plaintiff, a passenger, was the innocent victim of a rear end collision. Her evidence, taken at face value, disclosed two separate and distinct injuries. The first was a bruised leg, caused by being thrown against an air conditioner in the car. The second was a whiplash injury to the neck and spine. This latter injury was the claimed cause of low back and leg pain, headaches, dizziness and nausea, eventually…