Miami Pedestrian Accident Lawyer : Settlements : Pedestrian Injury Attorney Fort Lauderdale Florida

Below are some of Miami Injury Lawyer Justin Ziegler's pedestrian accident personal injury settlements. Other settlements involving pedestrians (where our client's may have been in a car, riding a bicycle, motorcycle, golf cart, scooter/moped) are listed on the links at the bottom of this page.

Two Hundred Twenty Five Thousand Dollars ($225,000.00) Settlement for the personal injury claim of a pedestrian (our client), a resident of Switzerland, who was struck by a car while in Coconut Grove, Florida with his wife. He fractured his tibia and was taken to Mercy Hospital and stayed there for seven days. Philadelphia Insurance Companies insured the rental car company that rented he automobile to the U.S. government employee who is responsible for the accident. We settled a lawsuit against the U.S. government. An external fixator was placed on our client's leg. He underwent another surgery about a month later in Switzerland, wherein a nail was placed in his tibia. He will need a 3rd surgery to remove the nail about a year later. The driver who caused this accident is a United States customs & Border Patrol employee for the United States government who was driving a rental car (Hertz). According to the law, a claim cannot be made directly against the US government employee. The customs worker was in Miami for a business trip. The U.S. government has a contract with most [(if not all)] major car rental companies. The contract is known as Car Rental agreement #3, and as it relates to personal injury, it states that the car rental company will indemnify the U.S. government for up to $100,000 per person in the event that the driver of the car injures a third party (in this case our client).

Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance, the insurance carrier for the rental car company of the customs employee, offered One hundred Thousand Dollar ($100,000.00) to settle the bodily injury claim. We filed a statement of claim against the U.S. government for $500,000.00 for the gentleman, and $100,000.00 for his wife for her loss of consortium claim. This amount was to cover damages for personal injury, pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, etc from the U.S. Government. Unfortunately, when making a personal injury claim against the U.S. government, known as a F.T.C.A claim, the injured party must provide the government with accident and injury related information and wait six (6) months before filing a lawsuit against the United States. Personal injury claims against the US government are tried in front of a judge, not a jury. To read more about liability against the US government for employee who injure people while driving car rentals, click here. The health and disability insurer, Groupe mutual, for our client is asserting a right of subrogation to recover the $100,000 benefits that they have paid. This may reduce our client's recovery. Miami injury attorney Justin Ziegler feels that health insurance companies should not have a strong right of recovery from the settlement proceeds.

$100,000 Policy limits settlement for a gentleman who was hit while near his car by an self insured vehicle which qualified as an uninsured motorist under Florida law.

$20,000 Settlement (Policy Limits) for a pedestrian who suffered personal injury when he was hit by a car that reversed and hit him. He suffered a full thickness torn rotator cuff. We received $10,000 from the at fault driver's insurance company (Progressive) and another $10,000 from the pedestrian's underinsured motorist company (U.S. Security).

$10,000 Settlement (Policy Limits) on behalf of a pedestrian who was hit by a driver of car in a parking lot. The driver was insured by Clarendon National Insurance Company (RAC Insurance Partners LLC). The driver of the car that hit her was underinsured.

$8,000.00 Settlement for a pedestrian who was backed up into by a car that was insured by State Farm Insurance Companies. The car accident occurred on the property of a Nissan Dealership in Miami, Florida. Miami Injury lawyer Justin Ziegler's understanding of the insurance adjuster's statement of facts was that their client barely hit our client, and if so, it was at a very low speed.

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Florida Pedestrian Accident Injury Settlements