This is not my case. In the case of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company v. Siergiej, Fla: Dist. Court of Appeals, 2nd Dist. 2013, a claimant was involved in a crash with a motorcycle operated by a Lee County Sheriff Department employee.
He sued the Lee County Sheriff’s Department (the Sheriff) and State Farm, his uninsured motorist insurer. [Read more…]
My Actual Case: $110,000 Settlement for a pedestrian. A car hit her. She suffered an orbital fracture. [Read more…]
My Actual Case: $16,500 Settlement (Gross) for my client, a driver of a car, who was diagnosed with a herniated disc in his back. [Read more…]
My actual case: $73,000 Settlement for my client, a lady, who tripped and fell at a condominium.
We did not charge an attorney’s fee on an additional $5,000 that the insurance company paid for Medpay benefits. [Read more…]
My actual case: $130,000 Settlement for a female licensed practical nurse (LPN) from another state. She was in a car accident in Bonifay, Holmes County, Florida.
She had surgery to repair a rotator cuff tear.
This settlement is before deduction for attorney’s fees and expenses. Most cases result in a lower recovery. It should not be assumed that your case will have as beneficial a result.
Actual case (Not mine): $677,000 or so in pain and suffering for a 61 year old male engineer, who was hit by an SUV that drove onto the sidewalk. It happened in Plantation (Broward County), Florida in 2010. [Read more…]
Actual Case (not my case): $16.5 Million for pain and suffering was affirmed (approved) by the 4th District Court of Appeal for a 20 year old man who was rendered paraplegic after he was hit by a Jeep while he was on a motorcycle in Martin County, Florida.
$11.5 Million of the award was for future pain and suffering, disability, physical impairment, disfigurement, mental anguish, inconvenience, aggravation of a disease or physical defect or loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life. [Read more…]