CLIENT VICTORIES

It Pays to Call Payer

James D. Payer

$27.56

MILLION

Car Crash Accident

$3.10

MILLION

Ambulance Liability Settlement

$2.25

MILLION

Brain Injury Settlement

James D. Payer

$27.56

MILLION

Motor Vehicle Crash

JURY VERDICT

Represented as co-counsel a woman who was struck by a vehicle traveling over 100 miles an hour on I-95 resulting in severe traumatic brain injuries

$10

MILLION

Work Injury / Truck Accident

JURY VERDICT

Represented a garbage truck helper who was run over by a co-worker who was driving the truck and ran a stop sign. We filed a negligence complaint and obtained a $10M jury verdict.

$2.69

MILLION

Electrocution of Tree Trimmer

SETTLEMENT

Settlement of case against FPL for failing to properly trim trees away from powerlines. Client was electrocuted while trimming a palm tree and sustained 3rd degree burns over 40% of his body, loss of his left eye and severe disfigurement.

$2.15

MILLION

Motor Vehicle Crash

SETTLEMENT

Settlement of a motor vehicle crash case against the uninsured motorist umbrella policy of the driver who lost control of the vehicle they were traveling in coming back from NC resulting in the client sustaining a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) that required multiple surgeries, weeks in the hospital and lengthy rehab to regain his pre-accident physical abilities.

$1.48

MILLION

Work Injury

JURY VERDICT

Represented a worker who was not provided the appropriate safety goggles and was struck in the eye with a nail from a nail gun while working for an uninsured contractor. Injuries included a detatched retina requiring surgery and a long recovery.

$1

MILLION

Work Injury

SETTLEMENT

Settlement of a work accident case for a client who was a warehouse worker for a large aviation company (bought out by Boeing) when he tripped and fell over a pallet striking the back of his head on the concrete floor resulting in TBI and severe spinal cord damages that resulting in mylopathy that limited his ability to walk. We also got him $536,000.00 in medical and lost wage benefits prior to settlement.

$675,000

Work Injury

SETTLEMENT

Settlement of a workers’ compensation case where my client sustained a multiple herniated disks in his lower back that caused foot drop and neuropathy into his lower extremities. The initial surgery performed by the workers’ compensdation doctor was a failure and I was able to get my client to a spine surgeon iat the University of Miami Spine Institute to perform corrective surgery that allowed him to regain most of his bodily funhctions and avoid permanent paralysis. Also got him $670,658.00 in medical and lost wage benefits prior to settlement.

$675,000

Motor Vehicle Incursion

SETTLEMENT

Settlement of law suit filed aginst a strip mall as a result of a vehicle being driven into a dentist’s office and nearly killing my client, for their failure to install bollards infront of the parking area to prevent vehicles from being able to be driven into the stores in the mall. Her injuries (fractured spine, broken nose, bilateral wrist fractures and a collapsed lung) were life threatening and she was in a coma for a week and reqired multiple surgeries to save her life.

$300,000

Work Injury

SETTLEMENT

Settlement of a workers’ comp case where we represented a woman who tripped and fell in a warhouse while retrieving parts resulting in spinal cord injuries. Initially her employer and its insurance company denied the case and the cause of her injuries and need for medical treatment but we litigated the case and obtained the necessary expert to prove before the judge that her injuries were the result of her accident at work.

$268,000

Premises Liability

JURY VERDICT

I represented a woman against a big box retailer (WalMart) who sustained injuries to her foot when a peice of a coffee grinder fell off of a shelf onto her foot requiring surgery to repair a microfracture to her left foot.