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FLYING FIRE HYDRANT
Our seat belted client was clipped from behind at a high rate of speed, causing her car to careen into a ditch. The at-fault party continued their destruction by pulling out of the ditch and striking a fire hydrant and a stop sign. The force of impact with the fire hydrant launched the fire hydrant into our client’s passenger side. The at-fault party's vehicle then struck our client's vehicle again. Our client suffered a massive herniated disc at C5-6 and disc bulges at L4-5 and L5-S1. The case settled for the policy limits of the at-fault party plus the policy limits of the underinsured motorist coverage our client carried.
CHECK YOUR COVERAGES
Our office regularly handles accident cases where the insurance coverages in place are not adequate to cover the injuries. We encourage you to consider eliminating your personal injury protection deductible and adding or increasing your medical payments coverage which, generally speaking, will not result in substantial premium increases. If you do not carry uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage, we strongly advise you to reconsider. While Florida law does not mandate this coverage, it is prudent to carry some coverage given the high number of accidents where such coverage help compensate you for your damages.
DUI RESULTS SHOW CASES ARE DEFENSIBLE
We have recently secured reduced charges in several DUIs with difficult facts. Cases involving high intoxilizer results, admissions of drinking, bad driving, and other problems can be attacked when errors occur in police investigations. Significantly, the facts are often different than reported by law enforcement or, at a minimum, the law enforcement version does not represent the whole picture of what happened. For example in one accident and twice the legal limit case, law enforcement failed to give due consideration to the cause of the accident and lay witnesses who said our client was not impaired. The case was ultimately reduced to reckless driving. In another, numerous technical errors motivated the prosecution to offer our client a reckless driving charge. Finally, In a substantial victory, the state recently dropped charges against our client after depositions revealed the witnesses could not identify our client as the driver of the vehicle.
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