The police report states Priessnitz suffered serious injuries and was transported to Morristown Medical Center for a left femoral fracture following the accident. (Credit: Oleg Bezrukov/Shutterstock)
A civil case over a 2017 accident in Hackensack, N.J., involving a man who was seriously injured when his motorcycle was struck by a turning vehicle, settled for $1.7 million on May 18. Allstate covered the entire settlement, which was paid on June 1.
The accident occurred on June 14, 2017, when plaintiff Matthew Priessnitz, then 29 and an auto mechanic from Asbury, was traveling south on a 2015 white Suzuki DR-Z400 motorcycle along Route 182-Mountain Avenue and Shelley Drive in Hackensack, according to a police report.
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Suzette Parmley
Trenton Correspondent who covers the N.J. Supreme Court, Governor, Legislature. She also contributes to The Legal Intelligencer and law.com. Suzette joined New Jersey Law Journal in Jan. 2019 from the Philadelphia Inquirer where she was a former Trenton Statehouse Correspondent and Business Reporter/Columnist. Awards: 1st Place for 2020 coverage of NJ Supreme Court; 2019 Specialized Writing Category, 5-time winner of the Business Financial Writing Portfolio Award from the New Jersey Press Association. Graduate of the Fels Center of Government/University of Pennsylvania. Email: [email protected] or follow on Twitter: @SuzParmley
