Scaturro v. Garcia–– July 2019
Kirill Tarasenko tried a case in Sacramento, California where plaintiff Rico Scaturro, was riding a motorcycle wearing a helmet but no other protective gear, including no gloves. A young driver who was inexperienced with a manual transmission shot out onto Garfield from a side street, but then began to stall out.
Cars had to swerve to avoid him, as did Rico, who hit the median, flipped over the handlebars of his cruiser, braced his fall with his hands, tumbled about 5 times along the concrete and lost consciousness. He sustained road burn over much of his body, including deep road burns on the sides of both hips, all over his elbow and forearms, and the palms of his hands. He had also fractured his right great toe. ER physicians were concerned with infection, so they ripped off the toe nail and bandaged his whole right foot.
Scaturro ended up with a Right shoulder Tenodesis surgery in January of 2016 about 16 months after the crash. The left shoulder was operated on in January of 2018, so two full years after the first surgery, on the right shoulder.