A now-disabled woman won $18.5 million in a civil settlement after she sued the City of Davis for failing to maintain its sidewalks, which attorneys allege resulted in her tripping, falling and landing paralyzed for life due to a severe spinal cord injury.

"Her life is just forever changed," Glenn Guenard, co-counsel on the case, told CBS Sacramento.

The woman asked not to be identified in this story to maintain her privacy, but is in her 60s and lives in Davis' Wildhorse neighborhood.

She was on a lunchtime walk with her husband around the neighborhood, something they did often, but they decided to take a route they did not frequent that fateful day in August 2022.

Michael Schaps, co-counsel on the case, says his client did not notice a defect in the city-owned sidewalk about an inch

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