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Money isn’t everything. It can’t fix everything. It can’t turn back time to before your injury. It can’t bring back a loved one. But just compensation in a settlement or verdict can relieve your financial difficulties following an accident. It can secure justice, ensuring the wrongdoers are held accountable for their devastating actions. It can help your quality of life if your injuries have left you disabled. It can afford you the assistance you need physically and emotionally to cope with the ramifications of what happened. It can aid you as you strive to get back to the life you led before the tragic accident.
That is our goal—to help you find some modicum of peace after suffering such terrible losses. That is what these verdicts and settlements mean to us. In each instance, we have helped a client get that much closer to feeling whole again. Though these dollars are drops in the bucket of their grief, we hope they accumulate, relieving their pain.
We find ourselves constantly inspired by the courage and humanity we see in our clients. Bringing their cases through to a successful conclusion and walking beside them every step of the way—that is how we show our gratitude.
The following verdicts and settlements are examples of Colling Gilbert Wright’s commitment to our clients.
Settlement in the Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Case
Quadriplegic against underinsured drunk driver after defeating his attempt to extinguish the claim in bankruptcy court.
Product Liability: Worksite explosion case involving severe burn injuries and PTSD.
Workers’ Compensation : spinal cord injury, paralysis.
Medical Malpractice : dollar verdict against a pediatrician for failure to diagnose and treat a heart condition.
This verdict of 6.8 million dollars against RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co includes 5 million in punitive damages on behalf of the widow of an addicted smoker who died from lung cancer.
Settlement of $5,270,000 against a driver and her employer for burn injuries resulting from a fiery automobile accident.
Wrongful Death Medical Malpractice : Negligent administration of medication resulting in fatal anaphylactoid reaction.
Settlement of $4,125,000 against a heavy equipment rental company for negligent maintenance of a leased aerial lift resulting in an accident resulting in the paraplegia of the operator.
Settlement of $3,800,000 against the manufacturer when a power company lineman was killed when his bucket truck lift device failed, dropping him to the ground.
Medical Malpractice : Failure to timely deliver baby with fetal distress. Brain damage from hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.
This verdict was in Osceola County in a Medical Malpractice Case arising from negligent performance of a hysterectomy resulting in neurogenic bladder.
Commercial Premises Liability : Retail building roof partially collapsed upon deliveryman resulting in leg being crushed
Medical Malpractice : Failure to timely diagnose and treat cervical cancer.
Medical Malpractice : Failure to timely delivery baby resulting in hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. Brain damage with developmental delay.
Medical Malpractice : Failure to timely diagnose and treat bacterial meningitis resulting in wrongful death.
Medical Malpractice : Failure to timely deliver baby resulting in hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.
Insurance Bad Faith : Bad Faith claim following an excess verdict on an insurance policy.
Nursing Home Negligence : against a nursing home corporation on behalf of a mentally impaired stroke victim who gave birth to a baby boy linked by DNA evidence to a male certified nurse assistant employed by her nursing home.
Product Liability – SUV rollover causing quadriplegia.
Medical Malpractice : Claims bill against the State Hospital Authority.
Commercial Litigation : violation of non-compete clause.
Nursing Home Abuse : victim who died from malnutrition and a severe bedsore on his tailbone.
Settlement of $1,525,000 against owner, driver, and manufacturer of a vehicle that ran over a pedestrian, killing her.
Nursing Home Abuse : causing bedsores, dehydration, malnutrition and death.
Mel Wright obtained a settlement involving a negligently installed stop sign.
Settlement of $1,300,000 dollars for a couple injured in a motor vehicle collision as a result of negligent installation and maintenance of a stop sign
A settlement of $1,300,000 for the parents of an adult motorcyclist killed at an intersectional collision.
Nursing Home Claim : nursing home in bankruptcy for the family of a resident who choked to death when left unsupervised at mealtime.
Nursing Home Abuse : for the family of a nursing home abusee who wandered away from the facility and ultimately died from exposure to the sun and elements.
Automobile Accident : for the parents of a young adult killed in an automobile accident.
Settlement for alleged medical negligence resulting in the tragic death of 48-year-old wife and mother.
Workers Compensation : low back injury, psychiatric injury.
A settlement of $1,200,000 for the wrongful death of a spouse who was killed as a pedestrian when her son backed over her in a parking lot.
Vehicle Accident-where a 11 year old boy who suffered a head injury after being ejected from a vehicle while not wearing his seatbelt.
Settlement of $1,050,000 for the parents of a 21 year old killed in a motorcycle vs car accident as a result of the negligence of contractors responsible for the safety of the work zone at the intersection where the collision occurred.
A verdict of over $1,000,000 for the family of a five year old child who suffered from a fatal heart arrhythmia when left unsupervised in the pool at a YMCA day camp.
A settlement of $1,000,000 for a woman burned by a bartender serving a flaming alcoholic beverage.
Medical Malpractice : Failure to timely diagnose and treat intracranial hemorrhage resulting in significant brain damage.
Medical Malpractice : surgical error causing death.
Medical Malpractice : Improperly performed spinal surgery resulting in permanent drop foot to 15 yr old girl.
Insurance Liability : which included all of the available liability insurance coverage for the parents of a 15 year old pedestrian killed by a commercial van.
Medical Malpractice : Improperly performed pericardiocentesis causing perforation of heart resulting in wrongful death.
Medical Malpractice : Failure to timely diagnose and treat stroke resulting in permanent partial paralysis.
Nursing Home Neglect – bedsores causing death.
Premises Liability : college student attacked by landlord’s employee.
Nursing Home Neglect : for the widow of a nursing home resident who developed severe bedsores and died.
Wrongful Death Medical Malpractice : Failure to timely diagnose and treat intra-abdominal bleed.
Wrongful Death Medical Malpractice : Improper injection of opaque dye into intrathecal pump.
Nursing Home Neglect – bedsores, infections causing sepsis and death.
Wrongful Death Medical Malpractice – Improperly performed rotational atherectomy, percutaneous cardiac procedure.
Medical Malpractice – Excessive force used during vacuum delivery resulting in avulsion and brachial plexus injury to newborn.
Medical Malpractice : Failure to timely drain empyema and failure to properly treat with antibiotics resulting in septic shock.
Nursing Home Neglect – bedsores causing death.
Nursing Home Neglect : for the surviving sons of a nursing home resident who developed a severe bedsore on the hip and died.
Workers’ Compensation : low back injury, shoulder injury, closed head trauma.
Wrongful death of nursing home resident caused by failure to administer medication as ordered.
Nursing Home Neglect : failure to monitor resident leading to 17 falls, 2 fractures and eventual death.
Personal Injury : For a client who developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy, a nervous disorder, following a seemingly minor foot injury sustained on the job.
Tractor-trailer Accident : plaintiff required carpal tunnel and shoulder surgery.
Nursing Home Neglect : for the family of another nursing home resident who died from bedsores and malnutrition.
Nursing Home Neglect : for the nephews and nieces of a nursing home resident who caught himself on fire when smoking in his room in violation of the nursing home’s policies.
Mild traumatic brain injury/post-concussion syndrome caused by truck accident.
Premises Liability : for a construction worker who suffered severe back injuries from falling debris at a commercial construction accident site.
Nursing Home Neglect : for the family of a nursing home resident strangled to death by her bedrail after accidentally sliding off the mattress of her bed in the nursing home.
Tractor Trailer Accident : causing broken arm and head injury.
for the widow and child of a motorcyclist who died in a collision with a deputy sheriff’s squad car during an attempted traffic stop of the biker for speeding.
Nursing Home Neglect – bedsores.
Nursing Home Abuse – failure to supervise resident – resident on resident attack resulting in head injury and death.
Wrongful Death Truck Collision – Truck collided with police car in the intersection while police car had sirens and lights on resulting in the death of 23 yr old deputy.
Nursing Home Neglect : for the family of a nursing home resident who fell down a stairwell and died from his injuries.
Nursing Home Abuse : for the estate of a nursing home resident who had no immediate family and died after developing bedsores.
Recovery for losses related to Alternative Investments (REITs, Direct Private Placements, Limited Partnerships and Promissory Notes) sold by a regional Broker Dealer
Tractor Trailer Accident : causing broken back.
Nursing Home Abuse : for the daughter of a nursing home resident who was the victim of verbal abuse by nursing home staff.
Medical Malpractice : Failure to timely diagnose and treat hyperbilirubinemia resulting in brain damage.
Wrongful Death Medical Malpractice : Failure to timely diagnose and treat diabetic ketoacidosis.
Nursing Home Neglect : for the wife of an alcoholic nursing home resident dying from cirrhosis of the liver who entered the nursing home with a bedsore that then worsened.
Premises Liability : fall from defective scaffold.
Automobile Accident : for a 61 year old drywall repairman who sustained aggravation of pre-existing arthritis in his neck and back.
Nursing Home Neglect : for the family of a terminal nursing home resident who developed a bedsore.
Nursing Home Neglect : dehydration.
Tractor Trailer Accident : causing broken pelvis and back injuries.