$147,000 Settlement for female registered nurse who suffered shoulder injury from car accident

The car accident occurred in Mariana, Florida near Bonifay, Florida which is located in (Holmes County) Northern Florida. We settled the case for $147,000 from her and the driver’s uninsured/undersinsured motorist insurance policy. Attorney Justin Ziegler drafted a complaint (click here to see the drafted complaint) which he may have filed should the adjuster not have offered a reasonable amount of money after the underlying ($100,000.00) underinsured motorist policy limits were received. A 49 year old mother, was seriously injured when a young driver’s car struck the automobile which she was riding in. The driver who caused the accident made an improper lane change which propelled both cars into a ditch (median.) The Florida Traffic Crash Report lists an improper lane change by the other driver’s car as the contributing cause to this accident.

After the accident, our client, who is right hand dominant, was unable to move her right arm. Emergency Medical Services arrived on the scene and transported both our client and the driver of the car which she was in to the hospital. The EMS report showed that our client was complaining of pain in her right shoulder and left arm after the accident. The Emergency Room doctor noted that our client complained of pain in her right shoulder and diagnosed her with a shoulder injury. Three months following the car accident our client had 1. Arthroscopic Right Rotator Cuff Repair 2. Arthroscopic Subscapularis Debridement 3. Arthroscopic Slap Debridement* 4. Arthroscopic Distal Clavicle Resection 5. Arthroscopic acromioplasty 6. Biceps Tenodesisarthroscopic shoulder surgery. Our client has since had a second arthroscopic surgery. The post-op dx was 1. Right Rotator Cuff Repair 2. Type III Degenerative Slap Tear 3. Partial Thickness Tear 4. AC Joint Arthritis

* A SLAP debridement is the removal of any excess or damaged tissue that causes symptoms of catching and pain in the shoulder. A biceps tenodesis is a procedure that cuts the attachment of the biceps tendon into the labrum and reattaches it to the bone of the humerus (arm bone). In a debridement, the rehabilitation is not as restrictive as in the case of a SLAP repair. The results of surgery are also usually more predictable, as healing of a SLAP repair is not as reliable.