August 24, 2021 • 1 min read
A young Marine, out celebrating a friend’s discharge from the military, was the front passenger in a car when his driver started speeding and caused a serious wreck. The driver’s airbag deployed, but the Marine’s airbag did not – he suffered massive brain trauma as a result that left him in a coma for weeks and destroyed six months of his memory. He had to relearn how to speak, walk, and care for himself through months of grueling therapy and will suffer cognitive impairment for the rest of his life: $9,500,000