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:
Personal Injury:
Automobile Crash $650,000
Tavares, Lake County, Florida
Our client, who was blind in her left eye, ran a stop sign at a 4 lane divided highway, pulled out in front of the defendant driver, and was killed. The traffic homicide investigation determined that our client was completely at fault. We recognized other possibilities. After conducting a thorough, painstaking investigation and utilizing top accident reconstruction experts, we were able to establish that the defendant driver was speeding immediately before the crash. Our meticulous depositions of the defendant driver and his own doctors revealed that defendant may have had vision problems as a result of his uncontrolled diabetes. Armed with this information, the Uman Law Firm was able to convince the defendant's insurance company to settle the case.
Motorcycle Crash: $250,000
Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida
An underinsured motorist turned left in front of our client, who was riding his sport bike home after a gator football game. Our client, who was wearing a full face helmet, laid his bike down to avoid striking the truck. The defendant, who was underinsured, denied responsibility, claiming that our client prematurely laid his bike down. Another witness asserted that our client was speeding. The Uman Law Firm went to work interviewing witnesses and learned that the defendant had previously been to a local sports bar for the game. Depositions of the waitresses at the sports bar confirmed that the sports bar knew defendant to over-indulge, but served him anyway. Armed with this information, the Uman Law Firm successfully settled a claim against the sports bar.
Motorcycle Crash: $240,000
Alachua, Florida
An underinsured motorist turned left in front of our client, who was enjoying a motorcycle ride. We were able to locate and collect additional insurance and assets to compensate the family for this tragic loss. We also assured that the underinsured driver lost her license.
Motorcycle Accident: $200,000
Alachua, Florida
The driver of a motor home left in front of our client, a passenger on a motorcycle. Our client suffered a broken arm and a broken tooth.
Premises Liability: $70,000
Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida
Our client suffered injuries to his face during a practical joke by one of his friends during a stay at a hotel. We were able to successfully argue that the prankster's homeowner's policy covered our client's loss.
Rear-end Automobile Accident: 20,000
Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida
The defendant driver rear-ended our driver, who had been treating with a chiropractor. We were able to successfully argue that the accident aggravated our client's pre-existing back injuries.
Slip and Fall: $50,000
Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida
Our client slipped in fell in the bathroom of a fast food restaurant. We were able to successfully argue that the fast food restaurant negligently placed its soap dispenser directly over the bathroom floor, causing or client to slip and fall.
Premises Liability: $75,000
Hawthorne, Florida
A tree fell over during a tropical storm, striking our client's house and causing her a neck injury. The insurance company claimed there was no coverage because the tropical storm was an act of God. The Uman Law Firm investigators interviewed neighbors and other witnesses and determined that the land owner had not properly repaired a sewage leak. Armed with the help of a top arborist expert, the Uman Law Firm was able to successfully argue that the landowner had a history of discharging sewage waste near the tree, causing the tree to weaken and uproot during the storm.
Car Crash Vicarious Liability: $80,000
Orlando, Florida
Orange County
Our client was t-boned by an uninsured foreign national in a rental car, causing a shoulder injury. After the at-fault foreign national fled the country, and despite federal laws to the contrary, we were able to recover from the rental agency.
$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 causethe 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 wasaware 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!