Florida Injury Lawyer Information

Mario was shopping at a popular supermarket in Jacksonville, Florida when he noticed a small piece of meat lying on the floor in front of the sushi counter. He told the crew behind the counter about it and told him that customers might walk on the meat and slip. The sales associate told him that he will take care of it. Mario turned around and after a few steps heard a loud thug on the floor.

Apparently a person slipped on the floor before the sales associate got to clean it. The customer fell on her lower back and couldn’t get up. Mario looked at the face of the sales associate, mentally took down his name and called 911. While the femal victim was still unconscious on the floor, the sales associate called his manager and reported the incident.

The store manager immediately went to the scene. By this time, a throng of shoppers have surrounded the victim. They couldn’t move the victim because they were afraid that they might aggravate her condition. The store manager meanwhile ordered the sales associate to clean the floor and take pictures of the victim and the clean floor.

The woman’s name is Nicole Schwimmer. She suffered paralysis from the waist down because of the fall. She accrued huge medical bills and she lost all her future income. She was bound to the wheel chair for the rest of her life.

She contacted a Florida Slip and Fall lawyer and asked them to assess her case. The lawyer believes that she has a case. Nicole and the lawyer agreed that they will divide the settlement 60%-40%. The lawyer was confident that they will win the case.

What made this case successful was because they had a credible witness. Mario went to the court to tell the court what happened. The judge awarded the claim to Nicole. Nicole received $60,000 while the Florida Slip and Fall lawyer received $40,000 from the $100,000 claim they got from the supermarket.

Nicole used part of the money to settle her hospitalization and part for her daily needs. Currently, Nicole is living in New York and is working as an administrative assistant for a small company.

This happened in 2007 in and the lawsuit is still ongoing. Nick Bollea, the son of Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea in real life) was driving along a highway in Pinellas, Florida past midnight in August 2007 and his yellow Toyota Supra went out of control and hit a palm tree. He was with a friend John Graziano who during that time was an active Marines soldier.

The court sentenced Nick Bollea to 8 months in prison with felony reckless driving. The son of Hulk Hogan cannot drink alcohol and will be put in social work for a few months. Considering that John Graziano’s whole life was put into a complete stop, these punishments seem very mild.

Aside from minor cuts and bruises, nothing happened to Hulk Hogan’s son. But John Graziano had traumatic brain injury Florida and until now the only that he can do is to open and close his eyes. Because of the car accident, John’s skull broke and cut out. He is 25 years old now and his service to the Marines is put to a complete cessation.

‘The Grazianos filed a lawsuit against Nick Bollea who only had to go to prison for 8 months. Their son accrued millions of dollars in hospitalization and nursing care already. John Graziano had a good future as a Marine officer but all it is gone now because of traumatic brain injury Florida.

The case of Matthew Peterson should be a guide for Florida brain injury lawyers in handling cases wherein a person didn’t manifest the symptoms of brain injury immediately after the accident. Matthew’s car was struck in the rear by a drunk dirivng a 4 x 4 truck which caused head to jerk violently forward. When the emergency crew came to the scene, Matthew was still in a state of shock and complained of a little pain at the back of his neck. The emergency team didn’t notice any bleeding or bruises on Matthew.

He was taken to the hospital and the finding nothing that can be potentially dangerous, the doctors let him out after a few hours. The next week at work, Matthew found it hard to finish his work reports. Suddenly, he found it hard to contentrate at any of the things he’s doing. He also couldn’t keep up with his 2 sons asking him a lot of kiddie questions. His relationship with his family started to deteriorate.

Matthew went to see a doctor and was diagnosed with mild brain injury. During the trial for the claim, the defense doctors argue that Matthew’s brain injury cannot be caused by the car collision because the emergency team and the doctors who first looked at him ruled out brain injury.

When this happens to you, your Florida brain injury lawyer should say that this is not a valid argument because neuropathologists have found out that the effects of brain injury are not immediately diagnosed. It will take up to 12 hours before the symptoms occur on a patient. Therefore, the initial examination of the doctors that rulle out brain injury cannot be used as a defense that there is no brain injury since the damage to the brain will not be discovered by diagnosis immediately after the accident.