Carol Sung
Man Injured in Near-Fatal Silvermine Road Accident Seeks $5.5 Million Settlement
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Attorneys representing the Stamford man who suffered life-threatening injuries as a teenager in a 2014 head-on car crash on Silvermine Road have said in a legal filing that their client would be willing to settle for $5.5 million with the New Canaan woman they say caused it. The “Offer of Compromise” was made to the woman in a Jan. 13 filing on behalf of plaintiff Michael Bivona as part of a civil lawsuit that followed the near-fatal accident. The woman in September pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor reckless driving charge, and served two days in jail, court records show. The civil suit, which also names Telebeam Telephone Systems as a defendant as the woman’s employer and owner of the vehicle she was driving, accuses the New Canaan woman of speeding as well as operating recklessly and under the influence of drugs or alcohol.