Messa & Associates, P.C. Win Justice for Regina Yankanich

  • In January 2010, Regina was a healthy, active, independent woman working as an office manager in Bensalem, PA. On the day of her accident, Regina was returning to her apartment with a friend. It was a cold, wet, snowy afternoon.

  • Regina and her friend exited her car in the parking lot of her apartment complex. The lot, sidewalks, or stairs had not been properly maintained through the snowfall and were covered with snow and frozen slush.

  • Regina’s friend ascended the stairs and began to lose his footing. She put her hand out to prevent his fall and stepped back into a defect in the stairs. With no railing to stop her fall, Regina went backwards, head first into the bumper of a truck parked behind her.

  • Regina called 911 immediately upon entering her apartment. That’s the last thing she remembers. The EMTs found her unresponsive.Once admitted to the hospital, she underwent a frontoparietal craniectomy and was put into an induced coma to reduce brain swelling.

  • Today, she suffers from permanent and severe impairments to self-care and motor and cognitive functions. She suffers memory-loss, partial paralysis of her right hand and arm, speech impairments, and has begun having seizures.

  • Regina only recently gained back her independence. With the settlement that Messa & Associates won her, Regina can pay her medical bills and can regain some of the normalcy she knew before her accident.

Messa & Associates held Regina’s apartment complex responsible for the permanent injuries that Regina suffered after her fall. Joe Messa and Jenimae Almquist fought hard to get Regina the justice she deserved.