Personal Injury Case Results
Case conclusion date: August 2016 and January 2017
Outcome: Confidential settlement
Description: My client slipped and fell on unsafe and dangerous pavement, causing catastrophic injuries that rendered him a quadriplegic. The case was settled confidentially against the first at-fault party for policy limits. The case against the second at-fault party was also settled confidentially for policy limits.
Type of accident: Premises liability
Case conclusion date: February 2016
Outcome: $250,000
Description: A living room ceiling collapsed and fell on my client’s head. My client was 71 years old at the time. She suffered a severe cord compression fracture, neck and head bruising. My client received microscopical bilateral laminectomies from a neurosurgeon.
Type of accident: Automobile accident
Case conclusion date: November 2015
Outcome: $100,000 in policy limits
Description: As my client was driving, a cat ran out in front of her. She applied her brakes to stop. The at-fault party rear ended my client, stating that she did not see my client stopping in the road. My client herniated her cervical disc at C5-6 and received a surgical disc replacement of the disc arthroplasty.
Type of accident: Automobile accident
Case conclusion date: April 2015
Outcome: $100,000 in policy limits from the at-fault party and $10,000 in policy limits from my client’s uninsured motorist coverage
Description: My client was stopped for traffic and was rear-ended by the at-fault party, causing my client to hit the vehicle in front of him. He suffered injury to his lower back, necessitating a complex microscopic decompressive lumbosacral spine surgery.
Type of accident: Wrongful death
Case conclusion date: February 2015
Outcome: $100,000 in policy limits from the at-fault party, $25,000 in policy limits from the company’s bodily injury policy, $10,000 in policy limits from my client’s uninsured motorist coverage and $5,000 in policy limits from the death benefit portion of my client’s PIP coverage
Description: My client was a pedestrian when he was struck by the driver of a delivery truck. My client died from complications from the blunt force abdominal trauma.
Type of accident: Dog bite
Case conclusion date: February 2015
Outcome: $100,000 in policy limits from the home owner’s insurance coverage. I also obtained workers’ compensation benefits for this client, and all of his medical bills were paid by the workers’ compensation carrier. He received lost wages and subsequently settled his workers’ compensation claim with the employer/carrier waiving any lien it had on the third-party homeowner’s insurance policy.
Description: My client went to his boss’s house to collect car scraps for work when he was attacked by three boxers owned by his boss. The dogs bit his left forearm, right forearm, left leg and right leg. My client suffered puncture wounds and received numerous stitches in the areas where he had been bitten. He was also permanently scarred.
Type of accident: Automobile accident
Case conclusion date: February 2015
Outcome: $100,000 in policy limits
Description: My client was slowing to make a left turn. The at-fault driver did not see my client slowing down until the last minute and attempted to steer his vehicle to avoid my client’s truck. The at-fault party hit my client’s left rear side of the vehicle, causing the trailer he was towing to break loose. My client’s truck then rolled over onto its roof and came to a stop in the center grass median. My client’s left index finger was severed.
Type of accident: Negligence
Case conclusion date: April 2007
Outcome: $150,000 from mediation and an additional $5,000 in policy limits from the medical payments portion of the coverage
Description: I sued a shutter company on behalf of my client. The company had improperly installed Bahama shutters. The shutters fell on my client, causing scarring on her face and the necessity of dental work.
Type of accident: Automobile accident
Case conclusion date: November 2005
Outcome: $190,000
Description: A driver for a contractor negligently ran his truck into my client’s car. She herniated a disc in her neck, necessitating surgical intervention with a plate and screws.
Workers’ Compensation Case Results
Type of accident: Explosion
Case conclusion date: 02/17/2017
Outcome: $525,000
Description: My client was a passenger in a Humvee when an IED exploded in front of the vehicle. The explosion caused my client to suffer from headaches, dizziness, panic attacks, depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder.
Type of accident: Slip and fall
Case conclusion date: August 2016
Outcome: $71,000
Description: My client slipped and fell while lifting a box. He tore his left knee on the inferior surface of the medial meniscus. He received arthroscopic surgery.
Type of accident: Moving a patient
Case conclusion date: September 2014
Outcome: $400,000
Description: My client was a nurse and injured her back while moving a patient. She had a lumbar laminectomy and discectomy at L4-5. I proved that she was permanently and totally disabled, entitling her to monthly benefits for life until the statutory cap.
Type of accident: Slip and fall
Case conclusion date: February 2014
Outcome: $100,000
Description: My client slipped and fell on a wet floor, injuring her left hip and lower back. She had extensive pain management.
Type of accident: Slip and fall
Case conclusion date: August 2014
Outcome: $75,000
Description: My client suffered a neck injury to his C4-C6 discs. He was referred to a neurosurgeon and received injection therapy.
Type of accident: Slip and fall
Case conclusion date: December 2005
Outcome: $246,250
Description: My client was a nurse and was running from the emergency room to the intensive care unit to assist a patient that had stopped breathing. She herniated discs in her lower back, requiring surgery.
