Lawyers and insurance companies on all sides have agreed to a settlement of the Catherine Blankenship vs. Armando Guardiola, et al. auto injury case in a deal concluded before Judge Paulette Sapp-Peterson, Presiding Judge, New Jersey Superior Court Civil Division, Mercer County, Docket # MERL-0477-03.Dr. Blankenship’s injury occurred on February 11, 2002 on Route 287 Southbound in Edison, NJ. Dr. Blankenship was driving her car in the center lane, when a tractor-trailer truck behind her veered to the right lane, cutting off and striking another auto that then struck Ms.

At the time of the injury, Catherine Blankenship, PhD was a promising post-doctoral fellow conducting original molecular bio-chemical research through the Johnson & Johnson neurology and drug discovery group. Also she was pursuing stem cell research in collaboration with another company,” says her attorney, Jed S. Kadish, Esq., a partner specializing in personal injury and auto insurance in the law firm of Pellettieri, Rabstein & Altman in Princeton, New Jersey. “Dr. Blankenship was a vibrant, productive, athletic woman prior to the auto accident.”As a result of the auto accident, Dr.

Lawyers say the spinal cord condition required a rare surgery, which Dr. Blankenship underwent at Allegheny Medical Center in Pittsburgh, PA. “Now,” her attorney says, “she is mostly confined to a wheelchair. Perhaps, some day, she will benefit from the stem cell research she helped to advance.”"A resident of Hightstown, New Jersey at the time of the accident,” disclosed her attorney, Mr. Kadish. “Dr. Blankenship and her husband, Scott, now live in Bakersville, North Carolina, as a result of health and economic problems stemming from the accident.

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