Practice Area: Truck Accident
Date: August 10, 2017
Outcome: $1,580,000.00
Description: The insurance carrier offered $62,000.00 prior to our filing of a lawsuit in Pasco County, Florida. In fact, their position was that our forty-seven year old client had prior cervical disc injuries and they believed that the 3-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) was unrelated to the car accident in question since she had previously treated for neck pain with a physical therapist three years before the car wreck. My client also sustained a serious back injury in her New Port Richey car accident for which she underwent two separate epidural steroidal injections (ESI) in her lumbar spine along with a rhizotomy (radio frequency ablation0 at two levels. She had previously undergone a series of epidural steroidal injections to her neck during treatment for a prior automobile accident. However, our client had not treated for fourteen months prior to her most recent motor vehicle collision. Thus, our position was that if her chronic neck injuries were so serious in nature, she would have undergone surgery prior to this car accident claim. We made use of a life care planner who estimated that the cost of future medical treatment would amount to $435,000.00 and the loss of future income due to her inability to continue employment as a respiratory therapist based on lifting restrictions going forward amounted to $350,000.00. These pieces of evidence, along with aggressive and smart litigation, resulted in a verdict for $1.58 million.
