On a normal sunny Florida afternoon, our client was driving a Harley Davidson motorcycle south on US. 301, when an ALFA Romeo 4c sports car pulled out in front of him. The impact sent our client flying several yards over the front left area of the vehicle. His helmet flew off before his head made contact with the road’s asphalt. He suffered severe and life threatening injuries including but not limited to, a coma, open book pelvic fracture, and a fractured wrist.
Here, several eye-witnesses and our own reconstructive experts, estimated that our client was driving approximately 70-75 miles per hour when he made contact with the sports car that pulled into his lane. The speed limit on that section of 301, was 40 miles per hour.
Therefore, a jury could find that our client was significantly at fault for causing this accident and could reduce his compensation by whatever percentage of fault they attributed to his actions.
In this case our client had serious and life changing medical damages. Damages are usually measured in relation to the amount of medical bills owed and the pain and suffering of the victim. Here, our client had a week long hospital stay that resulted in significant medical costs and a life threatening open book pelvic fracture surgery with open reduction internal fixation.
In the end we got the $1.55 million and our client would not have to spend another 2-3 years time to wait for his case to get in front of a jury. Further, we would not have to risk a jury holding our client responsible for the accident and giving him $0 because there was a significant chance that a jury would apportion a huge percentage of the fault of the accident to him and reduce his damages by that percentage of fault.
Attorney
Tom Harris, Florida Injury Attorney, has over 39 years of experience, including 17 years of defending insurance companies before reinventing his law practice to represent injured people as a personal injury attorney.
Kyle Harris is a Florida licensed attorney who joined the family practice after starting his career as a licensed attorney in California