With more than 38 years of exerience, The Law Offices of Steven S. Farbman, P.A. has a long and successful history of helping people who have been injured due to the negligence of others.
$15M
MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH
Our 64 year old male client was lawfully stopped at a red light when a commercial box truck crashed into the rear of his vehicle. Investigation revealed the negligent driver never applied his brakes before the crash, causing catastrophic injury and altering his life forever. Our client suffered a fracture of his spine, leaving him a paraplegic. He underwent several surgeries, extensive rehab, left the job that he loved and will need to adjust to a lifetime in a wheelchair.
$1.3M
MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH
Our 39 year old male client was a pedestrian looking at a car for sale when all of a sudden, he suffered life-threatening injuries when he was run over and crushed by a tractor trailer. The truck ran over his body and head and pinned him against another car on your premises. As a result of his skull fracture, emergency surgery was performed consisting of a left-sided craniotomy for repair of open depressed compound skull fracture and fixation of skull, with repair of complex scalp wound approximately 7 cm. Our client was very fortunate to have survived this terrifying crash.
$500K
PREMISES LIABILITY
Our 72 year old male client slipped and fell walking down a stairway in a residential home. Our expert’s investigation revealed the stairway did not meet various building codes requirements resulting in a tripping hazard. Our client suffered fracturs of his wrist, leg and knee. He underwent a total knee replacement, bone graft to his femur, patellar debridement and lateral fasciectomy. Several months after surgery, a physical examination revealed he walked with a slight limp. Because of continued pain, a slight limp, stiffness, and limited range of motion, a second knee surgery was performed
$1M
MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH
Our 24 year old male client, while driving for a ride-share company, was injured in an intersection crash. Due to a dispute at to who caused the crash, we retained an engineer and accident reconstructionist expert whose investigation revealed our client was traveling at a speed of 22-21 mph, less than 2 seconds before impact, and was well into his turn at the time of collision. The offending, underinsured motorist, was traveling at a speed of 73 mph, 5.0 seconds prior to impact, in fact increasing its speed as it approached the intersection to a high of 92 mph, .05 seconds prior to impact. Therefore, even though our client was making a left-hand turn, the other vehicle was the proximate cause of this collision. Our client suffered serious injuries resulting in multiple surgeries including exploratory laparotomy, right hemicolectomy, repair of abdominal wall hernia, abdominal washout, and right hemicolectomy (removal of part of the large intestine).
$600K
MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH
Our 35 year old female client was seriously injured when a ride-share driver failed to yield the right of way when making a left-hand turn, crashing into our client causing serious injury. Since conservative treatment consisting of physical therapy, rehab and injections, did not relieve her severe pain, she underwent neck surgery.
$205K
PREMISES LIABILITY
Our 68 year old female client slipped and fell on a wet floor in a stairway resulting in a fracture of her left ankle. Investigation revealed inadequate maintenance of the stairway to allow for water to accumulate on the landing and steps, thereby creating a hazardous condition to an area where people frequently walked. Our client underwent surgery involving an open reduction with internal fixation of her left trimalleolar fracture. A second surgery was later performed to remove the hardware in her ankle.
$475K
MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH
Our 58 year old male client was stopped for a school bus with flashing “stop arms,” allowing for children to cross safely, when a van failed to keep a proper lookout for pedestrians and traffic, failed to stop and crashed into the rear of our client causing serious injuries resulting in neck surgery involving an anterior discectomy and fusion. Defense argued the injury was not causally related to the crash as he had neck surgery several years prior to the crash. Medical records revealed he was pain free for many years and not undergoing any treatment until this crash.
$400K
MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH
Our 67 year old female client was stopped for traffic, with a second vehicle also stopped behind her. The at fault driver, failed to keep a proper lookout for traffic and drive at a safe speed and distance, crashed into the second vehicle with such force, that it was propelled into the rear of our client’s vehicle. Our client suffered serious injuries resulting in neck surgery.
$7.8M
MOTORCYCLE CRASH
The case involved a motorcycle wreck in which our client was the motorcycle passenger. The driver of the motorcycle negligently drove his motorcycle causing them both to be ejected from the bike. A second motorcyclist behind them took evasive action to keep from running into them, and ended in a nearby canal.Our client, a 58 year old medical receptionist and widowed mother of two adult daughters, suffered catastrophic injuries requiring 28 surgeries including the removal of one-third of her small intestines, her spleen and colon. She suffered a fractured pelvis, acute renal failure, broken left shoulder, and internal degloving injuries to her thighs. She spent three months in the hospital before being discharged to a nursing facility and subsequently to her home where she continued with therapy and medical care. After the accident, the driver of the bike admitted to two fellow motorcyclists that he took the turn too sharply, lost control of the bike, and overcompensated with the front brake. Unfortunately, the driver died from unrelated causes prior to the lawsuit being filed and couldn’t testify at trial. With the driver gone, the defense decided to defend on the theory that the plaintiff’s injuries were not caused by falling off the motorcycle, but rather by being run over by the motorcycle following behind them. Not too coincidently, the driver of this motorcycle was one of the two witnesses who the deceased defendant driver had made his admission to. The defense accident reconstruction expert maintained the motorcycle couldn’t have been going more than 10-12 miles per hour because the driver of the motorcycle escaped the wreck relatively unscathed. The defense medical expert (DME) also testified that the fracture to our client’s pelvis and other injuries could only have been caused by blunt force trauma, and the only thing that could have caused such trauma was the motorcycle following closely behind. Steven Farbman in a two week hotly contested trial successfully convinced the jury otherwise, as they found that the other motorcyclist did not contribute to his client’s injuries, but rather they were all due to the operator of the motorcycle she was on. A jury awarded our client $3,135,423.64 in past medical expenses, $2,000.00 in future medical expenses, $64,234.00 in past lost wages, $182,000.00 in future loss of income, and $2,500,000.00 in past and future pain and suffering.
$1M
MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH
Our client was completely stopped behind other vehicles in traffic approaching a toll plaza while working as a truck driver. Another truck driver approaching behind him was driving too fast and never applied his brakes crashing into the rear of our client’s trailer. Due to the extreme force of the impact, our client’s tractor trailer was pushed forward into the rear of the vehicle in front of him, and immediately both trucks were engulfed in flames. Due to the severe crushing impact the other truck driver was trapped in his cab and perished in the fire. Our client was lucky enough to get out of the accident alive but unfortunately, suffered extremely severe injuries that required extensive back surgery.
$600K
MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH
A 61 year old woman suffered severe injuries including a fracture and meniscus tear of her knee cap, neck and back injuries and psychological trauma, after a truck transporting nitrous oxide crashed into her vehicle head on. Our client endured arthrosporic surgery of her knee, epidural steroid injections for her neck and back and psychotherapy for this traumatic and life altering accident. Her physicians determined that she would require future medical treatment and care, possibly for the rest of her life.
$500K
PREMISES LIABILITY
On a family vacation our clients were dining at a restaurant that was not handicap accessible. At the end of their meal they asked for another way out of the restaurant other than going up a lengthy flight of stairs. They were escorted out an emergency exit that lead from the lower level out to the street. One of our clients stubbed his toe on a sharply raised area in the corridor that caused him to fall violently to the ground striking his head. He was transported to the hospital and upon examination doctors determined he was hemorrhaging with excessive accumulation of fluid in the brain with increasing intracranial pressure. Unfortunately due to the blunt impact to his head, he passed away from a cerebral hemorrhage two days later.
$200K
MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH
A married couple vacationing in South Florida were driving to the beach when a truck driving in the lane opposite theirs lost control and crashed into their vehicle. The husband, a back seat passenger, had to be extricated from the vehicle and ultimately airlifted to a local hospital for the sever injuries he sustained to his chest. In fact, the collision was so great the shoulder belt had “indented” his chest. Similarly, his wife seated in the front passenger seat was transported via ambulance to a local hospital. The husband required surgery to remove skin necrosis from his leg and sustained tears and impingement to his shoulder as a result of this accident. Likewise, his wife, required arthroscopy and meniscetomy to repair knee damage and sustained sever strain and contusions on different areas of her body.
$200K
MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH
While stopping for a red light, our client was rear-ended by a truck that failed to notice the traffic signal. He felt an immediate onset of significant neck pain and back pain both causing associated radiating pain. He was later diagnosed with a lumbar annular tear and was recommended to have epidural injections or undergo cervical spine surgery. As a result of his injuries, he was unable to continue working as a waiter, his primary source of income. While surgery to his neck may have corrected the problem, our client chose not to undergo it.
$155K
MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH
A woman on her way to Key West crashed into the vehicle in front of her when the defendant, an uninsured motorist, made an abrupt left turn while driving on the same street. Her injuries include permanent physical limitation in her grip strength and loss of sensation in her hand and an exacerbation of a ganglion cyst on her foot, both requiring surgery. Although the defendant driver did not have insurance, our firm was able to obtain a settlement amount of $155,000 from our client’s own insurance during mediation.
$525K
MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH
Our client was driving an armored van when the defendant driver ran through a red light and crashed into his vehicle. The force of the impact caused the armored van to crash through a guardrail falling upside down into a canal. Fortunately, this client was able to maneuver himself in knee deep water through an open door in the van and motorists who stopped when seeing the collision occur, were able to lift our client to safety. Fire rescue arrived at the scene and transported him in a backboard to a local hospital. He suffered severe injuries including a rotator cuff tear in his shoulder that required two surgeries, disc herniations, urological permanent injury and psychological trauma including post traumatic stress disorder and countless sleepless nights.
$300K
DOG ATTACK
A woman staying with her friend while recuperating after heart surgery, was opening the gate to her friend’s home to retrieve the mail, and without warning was knocked to the ground by one of owner’s dogs. This initial blow fractured her nose which was followed by the owner’s other dogs attacking our client, ripping her eye lid and mauling areas of her face and body. It was determined that our client both suffered a fracture to her eye orbital floor and a nasal bone fracture. She needed irrigation and debridgment for her eye injury, a reduction for the nasal fracture and other skin closures from the attack.
$625K
MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH
In the summer of 2006, a 31 year old elementary school teacher was driving when an 81 year old woman, ran through a red light and crashed into our client’s vehicle. She was taken to a local hospital and after several visits with different physicians, it was determined that our client had suffered head trauma and contusions to her knee and ankle, as well as spinal disc herniations. Her spinal injuries required steroid injections at various times and ultimately surgery.
$180K
PREMISES LIABILITY
While our client was shopping at a local grocery store, when she slipped and fell on a spill on the grocery store floor. From the fall, she required surgery to repair her torn ACL and removal of other loose bodies in her knee. She also underwent surgery to remove herniated disc material from her spine. In spite of the defendant grocery store going bankrupt, after mediation, our firm resolved this with a settlement of $183,054.26.
$150K
MOTORCYCLE CRASH
Due to rain and slippery conditions on the roadway, as a cautious motorcycle driver, our client pulled her motorcycle onto a grassy area. Unfortunately, as she was sliding across the grass, she was injured by an exposed metal post from a previously broken exit ramp sign that was negligently maintained. The exposed metal punctured her spleen and because of its severity, surgery to remove the spleen took place on the day of the accident.
$125K
MOTORCYCLE CRASH
While stopped at a red light, our client was behind a truck, who reversed rather than accelerated when the light turned green and struck the front fender of our client’s bike, causing the bike to fall over to the right. In trying to avoid the bike from falling on to him, his body contorted in an unnatural way causing him to injure his back. It was determined that he had disc herniations and tears, and had to have surgery to alleviate the pain and suffering he was enduring from his injuries. He also had to give up his own business and take a job that paid him less money.
$195K
PEDESTRIAN/GOLF CART
Our client was struck by a golf cart while exiting his own golf cart. The individual who hit him admitted that he was not paying attention and that it was his fault. Unfortunately, our client sustained disc herniations that required surgery. He also sustained a weakened hand grip and numbness in his fingers.