Practice Areas

Car Accidents

While car accidents comprise a significant portion of personal injury and wrongful death claims, it would be wrong to think that they are always simple to resolve. We understand not just the “rules of the road” and the special duties imposed on commercial and public carriers, but also the complex scientific and engineering principles often necessary to unravel just how an accident occurred on the roadways of Florida and who was at fault. We understand the medicine needed to evaluate complaints, as well as the economic and accounting principles needed to evaluate losses. We handle accident cases involving:

• Rear end collisions
• Intersection accidents
• Alcohol related crashes
• Hit and run
• Passenger injuries
• Driver injuries
• Motorcycle accidents
• Semi-truck and tractor trailer crashes
• Uninsured and underinsured motorists
• Pedestrian and bicycle accidents

When cases can be optimally resolved, through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or other Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods, we can aid in achieving the best result. When cases must be tried, we recognize that and can tap into our experience in the courtroom. Whatever the practical or legal issues that arise out of a motor vehicle accident, we are prepared to address them in order to maximize our client’s recovery.

Car Accident Representative Cases

• Hector Rodriguez and Milay Rodriguez vs. Community Asphalt Corp. and Felix Pineiro
  
  
• $15,000,000 settlement for 33 year old injured in car accident.

Chauvin v. Alamo Rent-A-Car, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida

• $6,600,000 settlement of wrongful death/auto accident case.

Wilkerson v. Schurch, Doucette, State Farm, et al., Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

• $6,300,000 settlement for injuries sustained by six month old girl in car accident.

Confidential Settlement

• $6,000,000 settlement for death of driver and injury to passenger in automobile accident.

Majewski v. Shawnee Miami Beach Resort, Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, Miami, Florida

• $2,500,000 settlement for death of husband and father who was killed in automobile accident.

Hernandez v. U.P.S., Sixteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, Key West, Florida

• $2,444,000 settlement for injuries to 57 year old in auto accident.

Gillies v. Lochmandy, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

• $2,300,000 settlement for brain damage to 20 year old college student injured in car accident.

Orozco v. Bates, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, Jacksonville Division

• $2,000,000 settlement in truck accident wrongful death case.

Donaldson v. Budget Rent-A-Car, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

• $2,000,000 sethement for injuries received in automobile accident.

Hernandez v. U.P.S., Sixteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, Key West, Florida

• $2,000,000 settlement for death of 30 year old husband/father in auto accident.

Christopher v. Ocean Reef Club, inc., et al., Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, Miami, Florida

• $1,900,000 settlement for death of 19 year old in car accident.

Confidential Settlement

• $1,750,000 settlement for young woman injured in car accident.

Kaplan v. Buckeye Insurance, Twentieth Judicial Circuit, Naples, Florida

• $1,700,000 settlement for arm amputation in auto accident.

Smith v. State Farm Ins. Co.

• $1,500,000 policy limits settlement for death of husband in automobile accident.

Soderman v. Namasco Corp., Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, Miami, Florida

• $1,421,000 verdict, reduced by 30% comparative negligence, for injuries received in car accident.

Swanton v. Avis, Tenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, Lakeland, Florida

• $1,100,000 settlement for paraplegic injuries due to auto accident.

Trafton v. Genesis Press, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida

• $1,100,000 settlement for paraplegic injuries due to auto accident.

Haustein v. Avis, Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, Miami, Florida

• $1,000,157 settlement for death of 20 year old daughter and injuries to 28 year old sister in car accident.

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