Dram Shop Act Violation - Bar Serves Habitual Drunkard Who Then Causes Auto Accident

Sep 29, 2010

OUTCOME: $700,000.00 recovery

The case settled on the "courthouse steps" directly before jury selection. Defendant's initial offer was only $10,000.00.

Sanders vs. ERP

Nov 12, 2009

OUTCOME: $4.5 million verdict

Negligent security case against Equity Residential Corporation arising out of a double murder of a young brother and sister in Gatehouse on the Green in Plantation, FL. There was a chronically broken ... and open entrance gate to the complex with no security at the time of the murders, which have never been solved.

Car accident

May 12, 2008

OUTCOME: $800,000 recovery

Negligent Maintenance of an Automobile by Car Repair Facilities

Nov 21, 2007

OUTCOME: $390,000.00 recovery

The decedent was an elderly 90 year man who was having car problems with his old Mercury Grand Marquis, where the car would inexplicably stall and lose power while in drive, making it uncontrollable un ... til it came to a stop. The car was brought into 2 local car repair facilities, one which could not spot a problem and the other which claimed to have fixed the problem. Within days of the supposed repairs, the car malfunctioned again and the decedent crashed into a telephone poll. He later died due to complications in the hospital with pre-existing heart failure. There was very limited evidence that it was the same malfunction which caused the accident. At deposition, the first repair facility's service manager was asked if he had ever previously dealt with such a malfunction before, to which he said yes. He then was asked what in his experience could have caused such a problem, to which he gave 6 different possibilities. He then was asked which of the 6 possibilities he actually checked on the car, to which he responded only 1. The case settled shortly afterwards after liability was denied before suit.

Product Liability Case

Aug 02, 2007

OUTCOME: $1.12 million recovery

Case involved an allegedly defective tire repair product which was used to repair a damaged tire before the subject accident. The Plaintiff was a passenger in a vehicle that sustained a tire blow out ... on the same tire that was previously repaired, causing the vehicle to roll over. The Plaintiff was in a coma for several days but then made a miraculous recovery with virtually no remaining deficits or problems. Discovery revealed that it is recommended by the tire industry and rubber manufacturers that such repair products are not safe and not recommended to use, despite sales in the millions of these products. Both the car repair facility that plugged the tire, the plug manufacturer and its distributor all were involved.

Slip and fall on rain soaked Eurotile

Apr 09, 2007

OUTCOME: $400,000.00 recovery

After another plaintiff law firm dropped this case, my firm picked it up and filed suit. An elderly client broke her hip while walking on a pathway at her own community building that was soaked with r ... ain water. We alleged that the path was unreasonably slippery when wet due to the defendant using improper type of tiles without an anti-slip substance and that the pathway had no hand rails in violation of code. The original offer was $0. Shortly before trial, Allstate paid more than full value on this nice lady's claim. What did the defense in was that the condo association added a sign in the elevator after the accident warning that the pathway was slippery when wet. At his deposition, the condo president claimed no knowledge of the sign, and disputed that such a sign could have or should have been erected before the accident. This "opened the door" to a "subsequent remedial measure" of putting up the sign after the accident, when typically these are inadmissible in evidence at trial.

Negligent Construction of Shower

Mar 17, 2005

OUTCOME: $1.6 million recovery

Trip and Fall Accident vs. Property Management Company

Jun 10, 2004

OUTCOME: $205,000.00 jury verdict

Client tripped and fell in a parking lot with broken and chipped asphalt due to overgrown tree roots causing a knee injury resulting in surgery. Defense offered $75,000.00.

Car Accident - Disputed Disc Herniation

Mar 25, 2004

OUTCOME: $175,000.00 jury verdict

Rear-end car accident involving a middle aged Vietnam Veteran. Client sustained a disc herniation in his neck which was disputed by the defense. No surgery was performed. Defense (Allstate) offered ... $20,000.00.

Dram Shop Action against Local Bar

Dec 19, 2003

OUTCOME: $185,000.00 recovery

A troubled underaged minor was illegally served with alcohol at a local "dive" bar. The bar denied doing this. The plaintiff then was so drunk after being served that he wound up falling off a highwa ... y overpass several feet onto the ground sustaining multiple fractures. It was unknown whether he accidentally fell or had attempted to commit suicide. Later during the case, he unfortunately did commit suicide. Key eyewitness testimony confirmed that the bar served the plaintiff underage and that the plaintiff did not have a fake ID. This proved to be the deciding factor in the case, after liability had been denied.