Plaintiff's Injury: Failed Back Syndrome with Lower Extremity Weakness
Unable to Ambulate with out Assistance
The Plaintiff , an engineer, earning $165,000 annually injured himself in a slip and fall incident while in the scope and course of employment. A third party entity is responsible for the leak which is the proximate cause of the Plaintiff's fall. Taken out by ambulance, the Plaintiff was diagnosed with a head injury, herniated discs and a fractured coccyx. After several months of recuperation, therapy, tests and assignment of a permanet total disability, defense counsel for the third party entity orderd 1 week of surveillance. The Extant Investigator found the Plaintiff had set up a cash business selling cords of wood from his property. Video surveillance distilled the Plaintiff's ability to perform heavy physical labor, cut trees, split trunks of wood, lift and stack chunks of wood. The results from the surveillance disputed the Plaintiff's alleged degree of disability as well as his ability to earn a living from his proposed physical disability.