Stephanie Miles – Swope Rodante P.A.
$10M Verdict: Animations Show Extent of Injury From Football Incident
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Case Study
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A fun summer football camp turned a boy’s life upside down when a seemingly routine group tackle left him a quadriplegic. After an eye witness of the incident claimed the boy was injured from diving over the pile of players and hitting the ground head first and not from helmet-to-helmet contact, Stephanie Miles, Esq. from Swope, Rodante P.A. needed to prove that the camp was liable for allowing tackle football in the middle of summer without any progressive contact integration period and enlisted the help of the forensic animators at High Impact to demonstrate how the injury was only possible through helmet-to-helmet contact. The result was a successful $10M recovery.
Challenge
The Defense argued that this incident was a “freak accident” and that no one was directly responsible for the injuries other than the risks inherent in the game of football; however, the camp let high school football teams hold 11-on-11 scrimmages for 90 minutes twice a day on back-to-back-to-back days with no contact integration period which led to fatigue that compromised safe tackling techniques. Because of this negligence, the plaintiff vertically split his C5 vertebrae, leaving him unable to walk for the rest of his life. Ms. Miles needed to prove beyond doubt that the boy’s injuries were a result from the tackle and not from him hitting the ground. This is where our forensic animation came in to prove causation and show the details of his injury.
Animated still from mechanism of injury.
Approach
Our expert medical and forensic animators recreated the incident which:
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Demonstrated the mechanism of injury and showed the extent of injury.
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Illustrated the severity of the incident without exaggeration.
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Animated the story in an easy-to-understand manner so that the jury could empathize with the Plaintiff.
Mechanism of injury from contact sport.
Result
The animations our artists created accurately recreated the incident and led to a successful jury verdict, allowing the boy to move out of institutionalized care and into his own home. Additionally, he now has the ability to start a business to help others who have spinal injuries.
“High Impact delivered a clip that gave natural credibility to the unseen reality inside of the pile of players during the group tackle. The motion and multiple orientations made palpable the "boom" of the tackle and how only helmet-to-helmet contact to the crown of the helmet could cause our client's C5 vertebrae to split in half.”
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