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# City pays $225K in bike accident case
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/city-pays-225k-in-bike-accident-case/
- Published: 2011-01-13T08:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-03T20:50:11.000Z
- Description: CITY HALL — City Hall will pay a bicyclist who fell while riding on Ocean Park Boulevard $225,000 under a settlement agreement the City Council approved on Tuesday.
- Author: news
- Tags: city council, News, bike, commuting, cycling, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 13:52

CITY HALL — City Hall will pay a bicyclist who fell while riding on Ocean Park Boulevard $225,000 under a settlement agreement the City Council approved on Tuesday.

The bicyclist, Robin Ratner, said in court documents a “misleveling of the pavement” of between 1-and-a-half inches and 2 inches in the bike lane caused her to “go airborn and crash,” resulting in a head injury and two bone fractures, among other injuries.

The October, 2009 crash on Ocean Park Boulevard at Main Street cost $175,000 in medical expenses and caused Ratner to lose $60,000 in earnings, according to the documents.

Deputy City Attorney Lance Gams, who handled the case for City Hall, said the settlement agreement was a good deal for tax payers because a potential jury award could have been more than a million dollars.

“I think that the plaintiff would receive sympathetic treatment by a jury if the case went to trial,” he said.

The attorney for Ratner, Beverly Hills-based Peter Bersin, said his client had asked him not to comment publicly on the case.

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