A fifteen year old picked up Samantha on his ATV to ride around an orchard in Palm Beach County. While crossing a highway, the ATV was struck by a pickup truck, severely injuring the three minors aboard. They were flown to St. Mary’s and underwent emergency surgeries. Samantha ended up having six open surgical procedures on her leg by the …
A teacher in her 40’s had a recent struggle with neck pain and headaches. It turns out that she had early onset of arthritis and general degeneration in that area of her neck. Then she was involved in a collision in a parking lot. It was not a major impact collision, but it was enough to change the way her …
Following a rear-end collision, our client could not shake the pain, weakness, and tingling from his neck down his arm. He even noted that his arm would typically go to sleep every evening when he got home, and that he would have to get up from the couch and shake his arm out to get the feeling back into it. …
Our client was struck by a negligent motorist while riding his bicycle on his way home from the store to get some milk for him and his wife. Every year, they would spend about five months in their little home in the Keys, to get away from the cold Canadian winters. He was transported to a hospital where they diagnosed, …
A roofing contractor hired Dennis Phillips after having been rear-ended at a stoplight in broad daylight. His neck was in pain, but it was the constant headaches and multiple near-falls off of a ladder that made him pursue the claim. Plain X-rays at the hospital were negative for fracture, and the client was sent home with the usual anti-inflammatories and …
Once, while picking up her husband from the airport, a woman snapped her foot sideways because the sidewalk was uneven. This caused bone fractures and torn ligaments and tendons which needed to be surgically repaired with pins. She hired Dennis Phillips to represent her against Miami-Dade County, the authority over the airport. After hiring a concrete expert to examine the …
When Mr. R’s Nissan Forerunner was stuck in the muck after some heavy rains, he called a local tow truck company to help get the vehicle out. Unfortunately, the driver told Mr. R to get into the Forerunner and steer while he pulled him out with a winch. The jerking motion caused similar forces to a major rear-end collision. Mr. …
An impatient utility van driver sped up behind and swerved around Mr. & Mrs. L but failed to clear their vehicle before turning back into their lane. The impact shoved our clients’ vehicle into the grass median where it nearly fell onto its left side. This caused our driver to strike his head against the A post and caused his …
Sometimes even a known hazard can be so dangerous that injuries are inevitable. A Miami-Dade condo complex had removed a tree from an isthmus jutting out into the parking lot near our client’s unit, but they left a stump and the network of roots that protruded up as high as 8 inches in spots. There is a concept in landscaping …
One holiday evening, Perry B. was out at a popular restaurant in the Florida Keys. The driver of his car crested a drawbridge so far into the other lane that they crashed head-on into a large pickup truck coming the opposite direction. Mr. B broke every rib, broke his occiput, and broke his neck in two spots. Furthermore, both of …
Coffey Trial Law recovered insurance policy limits for a driver that suffered a neck injury requiring anterior cervical discectomy and fusion due to a serious motor vehicle accident. JF, a 39-year-old female residing in Hollywood, Florida had a medical history that included prior neck surgery from a motor vehicle accident. She was re-injured in a subsequent motor vehicle accident and …
Coffey Trial Law is pleased to announce the confidential settlement of a pharmacy malpractice claim prosecuted for the Estate of CM. The identities of the parties and the amount of the settlement are confidential as requested by the defense. The accident involved the consumption of oxycodone pills in combination with Xanax that led to the untimely demise of CM, a …
Milena Krusteva with the help of Sam Coffey of Coffey Trial Law obtained a jury verdict in excess of $4.7 million from a Broward County jury on July 8, 2014. Ms. Krista have a sustained a very serious ankle injury from a fall down accident at a nightclub in Wilton Manors breaking three different bones and her ankle known as …
Truck Accident Lawyer Settlement – Forklift accident, spinal cord injury, herniated disk, epidural steroid injections, $575,000.00 settlement Ted S. is a truck driver for the Broward County School Board that on the day of his accident was operating a forklift to reload a rejected order of bleach bottles on pallets receive from a distributor in Miami, Florida. The truck driver …
Knee arthroscopy, motor vehicle accident, settlement policy limits Jennifer S., a 19-year-old college student, was rear ended by a driver near the university that she attended in Davie, Florida. Her knee hit the dashboard and she had to undergo arthroscopic surgery for a torn meniscus twice as a result of the accident. The other driver carried minimal automobile insurance that …
Premises liability, trip and fall, ankle fracture, trimalleolar fracture, open reduction and internal fixation Evelyn R., an 82 year young lady, went to a shopping center in Sunrise, Florida to attend a matinee at the local movie theater with a friend. As she attempted to get out of the car she stepped into a pothole in the middle of the …
$90,000.00 Settlement, uninsured motorist, automobile accident, knee arthroscopy Nicole J., a flight attendant, was injured in an automobile accident in New York while on a business trip sustaining a serious knee injury. The other driver did not stop. Nicole had to undergo knee surgery to correct a torn meniscus and to address ligament injuries from the car accident. She contacted …
$250,000.00 Settlement Charles G., a 65 year old man, was injured while playing golf with his foursome in Miami-Dade, County when the driver of his golf cart ran into a small hole in the middle of a fairway that caused him to be tossed from the golf cart and injure his knee. He tore his medial meniscus and sprained his …
Brian S. v. Air Conditioning Company, pedestrian v. motor vehicle, spiral fractured femur, traumatic brain injury. Brian S. was a four-year-old child at the time that his life was tragically changed due to the negligence of and air conditioning technician that was speeding on his way home from work on a country road in Polk County, Florida outside of Tampa …
Confidential settlement, slip and fall, wrongful death, deep vein thrombosis, DVT, pulmonary embolism Robert C. was shopping one evening in a Pembroke Pines, Florida supermarket when he slipped and fell in water on the floor breaking his kneecap. The water leak was caused by a jug of water placed on the shelf by a supermarket employee that was pierced by …
Confidential settlement, broken hip, broken pelvis, broken wrist, open reduction internal fixation with hardware, product liability, national truck rental company Gabriel S. was injured in the back of a box truck owned by a national truck rental company when he was attempting to move his personal belongings. His foot got caught on a bracket located in the back of the …
$230,000 settlement, hip fracture, slip and fall, open reduction and internal fixation, Pompano Beach, Florida Lila F. was injured when she slipped and fell in a bakery at the Festival Flea Market in Pompano Beach, Florida breaking her hip. She slipped on a combination of flour, water and dirt on the bakery floor where she was assisting an employee. The …
Confidential Settlement, gunshot, jaw fracture, negligent security. TK was used as a “human shield” by a nightclub promoter when a patron wielding a handgun leveled it at the promoter and fired. TK is a female of average build and the promoter is a male 6’5” tall who in a cowardly act pulled TK in front of him to avoid being …
Jury verdict $375,000.00, Palm Beach County, broken hip, open reduction with internal fixation with hardware, Boca Raton, Florida $375,000.00 broken hip sustained by 84-year-old resident of an Independent Living Facility while in the care of a car service driving her to a doctor’s appointment. This case is every family’s worst nightmare. An elderly relative is in the care of a …
Premises liability, ankle fracture, open reduction open fixation with hardware, settlement $200,000, Hialeah, Florida Blanca M. Slipped and fell due to water leak in apartment that she rented in Hialeah, Florida sustaining a serious ankle fracture requiring surgery. She had to undergo a open reduction and internal fixation with hardware on her ankle. This was a difficult liability case because …
Settlement $92,500.00, torn meniscus, knee injury, premises liability, Delray Beach, Florida Rochelle L. was injured at a restaurant on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach, Florida when she tripped over a large metal object in the floor of a crowded bar room. The bar was a converted garage and the base of a hydraulic jack for a car was still located …
Sam Coffey, Esq., settles for $285,000.00 the claim of a 53-year-old social worker against an apartment complex. The case involved a slip and fall on a staircase that lacked a handrail, had uneven stairs and had a door that swung out over the staircase. This accident occurred in the Wynwood District of Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida. The plaintiff sustained a …
Partner, Sam Coffey, obtains a partial settlement in a uninsured/underinsured motorist claim UM involving a rear end motor vehicle accident on I-595 in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida for $55,000. The driver of the other vehicle was drunk at the time of the accident. There was serious damage to both vehicles and our client suffered herniated discs in his lumbar …
Rear end motor vehicle accident involving soft tissue injury resolved for $40,000. 45-year-old female was rear-ended by another driver at a red light. She complained at the accident scene of low back pain. She was treated and diagnosed with lumbar spine injuries and bulging discs were diagnosed by MRI. She had a medical history of prior bulging discs in the …
Rear End Accident Resolved for $40,000 Rear end motor vehicle accident involving soft tissue injury resolved for $40,000. 45-year-old female was rear-ended by another driver at a red light. She complained at the accident scene of low back pain. She was treated and diagnosed with lumbar spine injuries and bulging discs were diagnosed by MRI. She had a medical history …
