Colten was smashed into by a driver that ran a red light. His body was thrown into the driver’s door and window and Colton’s spine was whipped back and forth. Colten ripped a disc in his low back and the disc pushed up against a nerve. Colten was left with pain that traveled from his back down the back of his leg. The doctors treated the injury by using epidural steroid injections. The treatments provided temporary relief but the injury became chronic.

Allstate offered only $5,000 stating it was just a “soft-tissue injury” and he should get better. Chuck took the case to trial and the jury appraised the value of the harm caused at $597,000.