Gainesville Serious Injury Attorneys

Recent Case Results: Gainesville Personal Injury

The Uman Law Firm is a law office that is committed to helping serious injury victims throughout Gainesville, Jacksonville and North Central Florida.  At the Uman Law Firm, we represent clients who have sustained painful injuries due to third party negligence. 

A Gainesville injury lawyer at our firm can help you if you or someone you know has sustained a catastrophic injury, such as one of the following: brain injury, spinal cord injury, burn injuries, birth injury, head trauma, eyesight loss, amputation and hearing loss.  Our skilled serious injury attorneys have been able to obtain successful case results for many of our clients. 

When it comes to representing injury victims, we know that our experience and dedication make the difference and have led us to achieve results like the ones listed below:

$800,000: Bar fight resulting in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Our client suffered a serious brain injury when bouncers at a local bar wrongfully attacked him when responding to an innocent scuffle between patrons.  After the bouncers beat our client into an unconscious or semiconscious state, they carried him to the top of the steps leading into the bar and threw him to the concrete street below, causing his head to violently strike the ground and resulting in significant injuries.

While our client lay motionless in the street, the bouncers immediately called the police and falsely reported that our client attacked them and made other false reports to the police to cause the police to remove our client from the hospital, arrest him for battery, and take him to jail. The Uman Law Firm successfully orchestrated the dismissal of all criminal charges.

However, the bouncers, the bar, and the insurance company steadfastly denied responsibility for the beating, attempting to blame the victim and claiming self defense.  The Uman Law Firm, utilizing the highest quality investigators and law enforcement and premises liability experts, was able to prove that the bouncers had a long history of unprovoked and violent attacks, that the bar was aware of their history of violence, and that the bar failed to take adequate steps to reprimand or terminate the bouncers.  The Uman Law Firm aggressively pursued the litigation, seeking out every piece of evidence, locating witnesses all over the country and traveling long distances to secure the testimony of those witnesses.  As a result, the defendant bar and bouncers ultimately agreed to compensate our client $800,000.

$30,000: Back injury at Gainesville Health and Fitness Center

Our client applied for a daycare job in the Kid’s Club at Gainesville Health and Fitness Center.  Although our client successfully completed her first two interviews, and despite the fact that our client was applying for a daycare job unrelated to weightlifting, Gainesville Health and Fitness Center nonetheless required our client to undergo a “workout interview,” on six MedEx weight lifting machines, before they would consider hiring her.  Our client was instructed to lift the weights determined solely by the interviewer and that she was being judged on her ability to follow directions. The interviewer testified that it was his goal to achieve “temporary muscle failure” on each repetition.  Unfortunately, our client was forced to lift too much weight and suffered a serious back strain/sprain injury.  Gainesville Health and Fitness refused to acknowledge fault and the Uman Law Firm filed suit and vigorously prosecuted the case until the case finally settled.

$50,000: Commercial Truck Crash resulting in whiplash                           

Our client was sitting at a red light in Putnam County, Florida when a commercial sand truck approached the intersection from the opposite direction.  The fully loaded sand truck was traveling too fast for the rainy conditions and could not stop in time. Consequently, the driver of the sand truck locked up the brakes and sled through the intersection, colliding with our client’s pick-up truck.  Our client underwent physical therapy for whiplash injuries and the Uman Law Firm recovered was able to recover $50,000 on his behalf.  

$104,502.36: Car Crash resulting in carpel tunnel syndrome

Our clients, husband and wife, were injured by another motorist who ran a stop sign and crashed into them, forcing them off the road and into a roadside drainage ditch.  As a result of the accident, the husband acquired carpel tunnel syndrome, and both the husband and the wife suffered spinal compression fractures in the accident.  They came to the Uman Law Firm in pain and frustrated by the insurance company’s delay in paying for their repair of their automobile.  The Uman Law Firm was able to get the clients compensation for the insurance company’s delay, and recover $104,502.36 for their injuries. 

$86,500: Car Crash resulting in whiplash 

Our client, husband and wife, were t-boned by a driver who ran a red light while talking on her cell phone.  As a result of the accident, the wife acquired carpel tunnel syndrome, and both the husband and the wife suffered whiplash.  The insurance company refused to admit liability, and its lawyers even tried to argue that our clients were at fault for not stopping at the green light.  Using the threat of trial, the Uman Law Firm was able to recover $86,500 for their client’s injuries.

$8,500: Low impact bump and scratch

Our client was driving in heavy stop and go traffic in front of the Oaks Mall in Gainesville, when her mini-van was jolted when struck in the rear by a truck owned by a local plumbing company.  Because there was no visible damage to either vehicle, our client and the plumbing company employee agreed to exchange information and leave without reporting the accident to the police.  Over the next several days, however, our client began to suffer some neck and back soreness and stiffness for which she saw a doctor specializing in auto accidents. After several weeks of physical therapy, our client recovered. The Uman Law Firm was then able to settle her case for $8,500, which was fair compensation for her pain and suffering and for the time she took from work to see the doctor. 

Contact a Gainesville serious injury attorney at the Uman Law Firm today!