Motor Vehicle (Car and Auto) Accident Settlements/Verdicts

$100,000 Settlement (Policy Limits) for a woman who was hit by a Ford F-150 truck while she was pushing her bicycle across an intersection in Cooper City, Florida. The at fault party was insured for $100,000. She was airlifted to the hospital by Broward County Air Rescue. Unfortunately, as is too often, are client does have uninsured motorist insurance which would have given her many more thousands of dollars. This story made the Sun Sentinel newspaper as well as the Miami Herald. We have been in contact with a representative of Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida reduce her medical bills. We are waiting to hear back from the hospital in response to our written request to reduce her medical bills.

$100,000 Settlement (Policy Limits) on behalf of a passenger against the uninsured motorist carrier Nationwide (for the driver of a car). Click here to read more about this case. 

$100,000 Settlement (for the policy limits) on behalf of a young Homestead, Fl woman who was rear ended by a driver, in Miami (Miami-Dade County) insured with Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. Our client was driving a car insured by MGA Ins. Co. She had a bulging disc and she had a percutaneous discectomy performed. Liberty Mutual blamed the accident 50% on our client, whom they alleged hit the car in front of her before their insured rear ended our client.

$75,000 Verdict where a driver was killed when hit by another truck. Liability was minimal on the driver who was at fault. Justin defended one of the insurance companies when he used to work as an insurance defense attorney represented drivers and owners of car who were being sued.

$57,000 Settlement on behalf of a police officer who was suffered back injury, while he was on duty, when he was rear ended in a car accident in Medley, Florida (North Miami-Dade County). The driver who caused the accident received a ticket for following too closely. We received the policy limits of $10,000 from the at fault party's insurance company, State Farm. Our client suffered a bulging disc and is a candidate for a lumbar laminectomy. He had epidural shots to his lower back. At the time of our settlement with the Underinsured Motorist Carrier Travelers Insurance Company (Travco), workers compensation for the police department paid over $17,000 in indemnity (lost wages) and medical benefits.

$52,000 Settlement on behalf of a 26 year old man who was injured (while he was on a scooter/moped) when a NAPA van's front end crashed into the moped. According to the police report, the driver of the van stopped and rendered aid but then fled the scene without giving any information. The driver of the van was later stopped. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue treated the driver of the moped on the scene. The driver of the van received a citation for failure to yield at intersection.