Women Hit Head On
Jul 18, 2012OUTCOME: $150,000
On July 18, 2012 a women in her late 60’s was struck head on by a another driver. She sustained a fractured ankle and we received full policy limits of $150,000.
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Jodi Leisure's Legal Cases (10)
Clearwater, FL
Personal injury Lawyer at Clearwater, FL
Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Wrongful Death ... +11 more
2011 Auto Accident Verdict
Jul 13, 2011OUTCOME: Able to settle for $480,000
A 48 year female was rear-ended in a motor vehicle accident in 2011. Her injuries required her to undergo a revision neck surgery as well as a left knee surgery as a result of the accident. Carrier had ... a $500,000 that we were able to obtain $480,000 without filing a lawsuit.
Man Falls on Water At Denny’s
Jan 04, 2011OUTCOME: Settled for $500,000
On January 2011 man in his late fifties was eating breakfast at Denny’s in Tampa and slipped and fell on water as he was heading towards the bathrooms. He sustained herniated disc in neck and tear in r ... ight shoulder requiring surgery to both. Settled case prior to trial for $500,000.
ATV Accident
Aug 19, 2010OUTCOME: Settled for $300,000
A 12 year old boy on an ATV was injured on 08/19/10. The minor was injured when he was struck by an ATV driven by another minor child. The parents knew the children were on the ATV and did not supervis ... e them. The minor sustained a head injury and we received full policy limits of $300,000 without filing a lawsuit.
Her plot filled - A cemetery has sold a spot next to Lucille Rembert’s husband for the second time
Jan 16, 2010OUTCOME:
ST. PETERSBURG – Four years ago, Lucille Rembert brought flowers to her husband’s grave at Royal Palm Cemetery. But as she looked down, she started to cry. Another woman had been buried next to him ... – in her spot. “I said, “Oh no, not again, “she recalled recently. In 1995, the cemetery buried a man in the plot she bought next to her husband. She agreed to move her husband’s body to a place with room for her. Now they wanted to move him again. This week, after fighting unsuccessfully with the cemetery for four years to get her burial spot back, Rembert, 61, sued the company that owns Royal Palm. The state Division of Funeral, Cemetery and Consumer Services also is investigation the cemetery and its owners. Work and Son Inc. Agency spokesperson Nina Banister would not describe the investigation, but she did say they received a complaint form Rembert. “I can’t speak about an ongoing investigation,” Banister said, “but in general… when a burial plot is sold, it is the property of that consumer.” Gary Hock Royal Palm’s manager, declined to be interviewed. The 88-year-old cemetery, which sits on three blocks off First Avenue S and is arresting place for more than 22,000, has had its share of burial errors and lawsuits. In the mid 1900’s, hundreds of parents of children buried in the cemetery’s Babyland accused the cemetery of digging up their babies and tossing them aside to make way for an underground waterline. Many of the graves were old, but family members – even a woman in her 80s who’d had a stillborn baby in her teens – still visited the graves and noticed the headstones had been moved. That case settled out of court. In more recent years, Work and Son, the owner for about the past eight years, has angered some of the religious groups that own plots at Royal Palm. In 2003, Congregation B’Nai Israel of St. Petersburg hired an attorney after learning the cemetery planned to sell plots in a sanctified area to non-Jew. And in 2005, the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of St. Petersburg and Vicinity Inc. accused Royal Palm of reselling plots it had bought years before for church members. Both cases settled out of court. More recently, the family of a man named John Houston, who died in 2005, claimed his body was buried in one spot but his headstone installed in another. Royal Palm still refuses to move him to his family’s plot, where he was supposed to be buried, said Chelsie Lamie, who represents Houston’s family. “Since 2005, the cemetery has not been helpful on this, “Lamie said. Family members “feel like they’re being ignored by a cemetery, which is supposed to be taking care of them in their time of need”. Lucille Rembert’s attorney is Tom Carey, who also represented the Babyland parents in a law suit against Royal Palm. Carey said he has seen several cases like this over the years. In the least egregious cases, it’s simply mismanagement. In the more serious ones, he said, it’s the cemetery trying to resell plots that have become more valuable. He said cemeteries are laid out on a grid. Plots are marked off with metal bronze rods. They don’t move. “And for them to come to this woman twice and say “We goofed up, “I mean, how does this happen?” Carey said. “It shouldn’t happen once, let alone twice.”
A date, two donkeys and a lawsuit
Mar 17, 2009OUTCOME:
Guard animals get loose and injure a woman. Their wealthy owner says he’s not responsible. SPRING HILL – The road into the woods is thick and with sand and curves, a place best traversed on horsebac ... k, which is the way Patricia Curtice last saw it. Now she sits delicately in an SUV, one hand under her rear to protect her sore lower back from the bumpy ride. When the SUV can drive no farther, she gets out and walks, stepping tentatively over tree roots the size of her arms. She doesn’t remember much, except that here between the gopher mounds everything changed, for better and for worse. “All I remember,” she says, “are the donkey teeth.” The story of how Patricia Curtice summoned a lawyer to sue one of the biggest philanthropists in Tampa Bay begins last June, the day she went on a first date with a former jockey named Angel Valdez.
Largo woman gets $432,000 over fan
Feb 24, 2006OUTCOME: $432,000
A Largo woman was awarded $432,000 by a Pinellas County Circuit Court jury on Friday after alleging a ceiling fan at a Durango Steakhouse at Largo Mall fell on the back of her neck requiring her to hav ... e surgery. Denise Coventry, 41, was having lunch in July 2004, her lawyer’s say, when the fan fell on her. Attorney Jodi Leisure asked for economic damages up to $1-million. But jurors hearing testimony that Conventry would be able to return to work profitably in the future downgraded damages. Neither the lawyer who tried the case for the restaurant nor its owners could be reached for comment immediately.
$5-million for a shattered dream
Dec 05, 2003OUTCOME: $5,000,000
In 2001, a professional violinist lost her musical future at a red light. On Thursday a jury agreed that it was a high price to pay. Clearwater – As a friend drove her to lunch, Xiao-Cao Sha’s thoug ... hts were on an evening performance with the Florida Orchestra. Her concert dress hung in the back seat. She had played the violin since she was a 6-year-old girl living in China. She practiced endlessly, 60,000 hours by her own estimate, and now was considered world-class. Sha caught only a glimpse of the car that ran the red light on McMullen Booth Road. She never heard the crash and didn’t immediately feel the pain from her crushed left shoulder. It would be a year and a half before Sha could pick up a violin again. On Thursday, a Pinellas-Pasco circuit court jury awarded her $5-million in damages for the musical career shattered by that car accident on April 28, 2001. The crash ended her dream of landing a spot I one of the nation’s leading orchestras. About $1,375,000 of the award was for lost future wages. Another $3,456,000 was awarded for past and future pain and suffering. The rest is for medical expenses and past lost wages. The jury deliberated less than an hour before rendering the verdict against the driver who ran the red light. The driver’s insurance company, Liberty Mutual, is on the hook for the award. Sha, 41, stood outside the courtroom at the end of the week-long trial and smiled as the six jurors approached her. Some asked for autographs. Sha promised to send them a copy of a CD of her performances, which is sold only in China. Jurors heard a three-minute excerpt from it during the trial. Tom Carey, the attorney who represented Sha with co-counsel Jodi Leisure, said he thought the verdict is the biggest ever awarded in Pinellas in a lawsuit involving a car accident. “In my opinion, she deserves the money,” said juror Dave Imler. “She’s never going to play the violin like she did before.” Sha’s injuries were so severe she wondered if she would ever play again.
Family wants $2 Million for Botched Cremation
Oct 01, 2002OUTCOME:
Head was discovered at waste plant BARTOW – When George DeWayne McKown died of a heart attack in Fort Myers, his family agreed to let a nonprofit company take body parts in exchange for free cremati ... on. Some family members say they didn’t realize the company would strip the body of its head, arms, penis and legs and all they would receive was ashes from his torso. The rest of his body ended up in a medical waste incinerator because officials, learned McKown had hepatitis C, making his body unsuitable for organ transplant or research. The family is suing for more than $2 million in damages. A lawsuit, claiming the family suffered severe emotional damage because of mishandling of the body, will go to a Polk County jury for a verdict today. McKown, 53, died in June 1998 of heart problems while working as a custodian at a Fort Myers’ lounge. Brett Harding, an investigator for the Lee County Medical Examiner’s Office, contacted McKown’s sister, Donna Harlan, and offered to have him cremated and his ashes returned to his native Iowa in exchange for the donation of vital organs and the spinal cord, the lawsuit states.
Rear Ended by Truck with Trailer
N/AOUTCOME: Settled for $100,000
A woman was rear ended when the driver of a truck with an attached 18 foot trailer attempted to make an improper right-hand turn and struck her vehicle. The woman underwent neck surgery. The claim was ... denied by the insurance carrier because truck had no bodily injury coverage and the driver of the truck had no permission to use trailer as it was owned by another entity. We settled claim for $100,000.