Car Crash Victim Awarded $7.5 Million by GIO Car Insurance
This is fairly sad, but definitely just. It's good to see that GIO Car Insurance took liability for this.
A 21-year-old left brain damaged and almost blind by a car accident when he was three was today awarded up to $7.5 million damages by a Sydney, Australian court.
Toby Daniel Sullivan suffered severe brain injury after an elderly man ran a red light and hit his parents' car at Beecroft, Sydney's north, in July 1986.
The three-year-old was left almost totally blind and with severe physical and mental impairments, and is now completely reliant on his family for care.
His parents sued the other driver's insurer, GIO, in 1997 when Toby was 18 and the impact of his injuries were able to be fully assessed.
GIO admitted liability for the accident.
In the NSW Supreme Court today, Justice Greg James today ordered GIO Insurance pay Mr Sullivan between $6.5 and $7.5 million, saying he had suffered great physical
and emotional pain as a result of his injuries and faced a significantly diminished quality of life.
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