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If you go try to after her personally her insurance company will defend her anyway; that's what the coverage is for. She's still personally liable for any damages in excess of her insurance coverage, and she'll probably be required to pay restitution as a condition of probation if she doesn't want to go to jail. That said, however, most DWI defendants don't have piles of money lying around to pay judgments with, and what you get from her insurance carrier is about all you can count on getting. You should get a lawyer yesterday. It won't cost you money; it will make you money. Without a lawyer you will not get her insurer to pay you the true value of your case.

The settlement was for an old injury. The new injury should not be covered by the old settlement, because it may not be related to the old incident. It seems as if you were injured a second time after the employer required you to do the exact same work that injured you the first time, and they failed to take steps to make the working environment safer. I would recommend that you hire a worker's compensation or employment attorney to help you with this case.

Depending on what kind of change you are thinking of making to your business, I don't believe a lawsuit automatically prevents you from making the change, HOWEVER, if you are a partner in a partnership (for example) and wish to change your partnership into a corporation, the change will have taken place AFTER whatever circumstances led to the lawsuit being filed, so you will still be considered a partner for the purposes of the lawsuit. In other words, you can gain whatever benefit can be gained from changing the nature of your business, but NOT retroactively.