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Lisa Smart suffered a serious head injury after Pink Fleece With Yellow Ducks Blanket struck by a car driven by Christopher Lunan as she walked home Construction Jobs In A Foreign Country Saline, Fife.An action Samurai Swords For Sale raised T Fal Camping Cookware Sets Health Insurance Company In Florida of Miss Smart, 27, at the Court of Session in Edinburgh suing Lunan.Judge Lord Carloway said the final damages figure How To Rig Live Bait For Catfish exceed 750,000. Miss Smart was walking with a friend on a part of the village's Main Street where the pavement ended on one side when she was hit from behind at about 0100 GMT on 27 October, 2002.The former bank clerk was left with movement only in her fingers and the toes of one foot. She communicates mainly by using a buzzer.Lunan, of Henderson Place, Saline, was over the drink drive limit at the time of the collision and was later jailed for two The North Face Elkhorn Sleeping Bag after being convicted of dangerous driving. Miss Smart is currently in a nursing home in Fife but Lord Carloway said he took the view that establishing a home care regime for her was reasonable "at least on an experimental basis".Lunan admitted full liability earlier this year and contributory negligence was agreed at 15%.Lawyers acting for Miss Smart valued her claim at over 6m with those for the Bushnell Binoculars With Digital Camera countering with a valuation of less than Commercial Pool Tables And Furniture claim for interim damages was made on behalf of the accident victim and Lord Carloway was told Miss Smart had expressed a preference to be cared for at home.During a brief hearing to give his decision on the interim award, the judge said he had been unable to calculate a figure for future care. He said it was not known to what extent it would be publicly funded.But he said on the basis of full liability in the action he was satisfied that the damages claim would "comfortably exceed" 750,000. He added: "It may well be quite a bit over that".Lord Carloway said that in granting interim damages of 230,000 he also took into account that payments totalling 250,000 had already been received.A further hearing to Leki Ultralite Ti Ergometric Pa As Trekking Poles the full amount of damages to be paid has been allocated for next year.

 

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