by Admin | Feb 15, 2015 | Failure to Diagnose, Notable Cases
Our client, retired Navy and a lobster fisherman, was left with intractable pain from a spinal infection that was not timely diagnosed by doctors in a local hospital and at the Veterans Administration clinic. The collective recovery enabled him to relocate to a more...
by Admin | Feb 15, 2015 | Failure to Diagnose, Notable Cases
Our 66 year old client, a renowned sculptor and custom furniture maker, was at the gym when he suddenly began experiencing severe pain and numbness in both legs below the knees. He was taken to a local emergency room where the initial diagnosis was a lumbar nerve...
by Admin | Feb 15, 2015 | Hospital Malpractice, Hospital Malpractice, Notable Cases
The wife of our client was diagnosed with a large kidney stone that was causing a severe obstruction with infection. This clinical scenario admittedly was a urologic emergency. Due to miscommunication between the nurses and the hospital doctors she was not treated...
by Admin | Feb 15, 2015 | Notable Cases, Surgical Malpractice
A small section of catheter tubing was mistakenly left in the heart of our client. It migrated into one of the heart chambers necessitating open heart surgery to be extracted. During the procedure she suffered a minor stroke which caused impaired vision. The only at...
by Admin | Feb 14, 2015 | Notable Cases, Personal Liability
On the night of — our 22 year old client was about to open her car door which was legally parked on a quiet neighborhood street in front of her house in Deland, Florida. Without warning she was struck from the side by a car that had swerved across the road. She was...
by Admin | Feb 14, 2015 | Notable Cases, Personal Liability
Our two teenage clients lost their father when he was fatally injured working for a construction developer. The defendant’s insurance company wrongfully denied the claim and refused to provide coverage for the loss or to defend it’s insured. We entered into a consent...
by Admin | Feb 13, 2015 | Insurance Bad Faith, Notable Cases
While a passenger, our clients car was hit broadside. He suffered multiple fractures and a traumatic brain injury. He had been a high school language arts teacher for over 20 years. While one drivers insurance company paid its limits timely, the others did not. Due...
by Admin | Feb 13, 2015 | Notable Cases, Product Defects
A product defect case brought a claim against a manufacturer of a compact excavator that had tipped over causing our client to ultimately have his foot amputated. The international standards applicable to this machine required a manufacturer to protect against...
by Admin | Feb 11, 2015 | Insurance Bad Faith, Notable Cases
Our 15 year old client was hit by a car causing massive brain damage which left him unable to walk, and significantly impaired one arm and his ability to speak. The drivers insurance company initially refused to pay its $25,000 insurance limits. A comprehensive...
by Admin | Sep 8, 2014 | Notable Cases, Premises Liability
Our client, a resident of California, attended a birthday party with approximately 20 others for a family member in a restaurant in Fort Myers, Florida. After the dinner was over she left the reserved banquet room to go pay her bill. She stepped from the carpeted area...