OLDER, LUNDY & WEISMAN handles cases involving personal injuries and insurance disputes. These areas of our practice range from catastrophic injuries to disability income protection to filing a claim with your insurance company. The firm’s personal injury and insurance coverage practice is focused on providing our clients excellent service, results, and support during some of the most difficult times of their lives.
Personal injury cases are typically those cases where you or a loved one has been injured as a result of someone else’s failure to use reasonable care. The types of personal injury cases our firm handles include:
- Wrongful death
- Catastrophic injury claims
- Automobile collisions
- Premises liability(i.e. injuries happening when you are invited on to someone’s property)
- Motorcycle accidents
- Bicycle accidents
These claims are personal in nature and require an understanding of how your injuries have altered your daily living. An injury victim’s damages may include:
- Medical bills
- Future medical bills and treatment
- Lost income
- Future lost income
- Pain and suffering
- Life alterations
- Out-of-pocket expenses
Our insurance coverage practice provides our clients representation in those moments when an insurance company fails to honor its obligations to provide coverage or other insurance benefits. These areas include:
- Insurance coverage disputes
- Bad faith insurance claims handling
- Commercial general liability claims
- Disability insurance
- Automobile insurance
- Private health insurance
After what can be a lifetime of paying insurance premiums, it is the moment at which you make a claim that you depend most on your insurance company to honor its obligations to provide protection. The wrongful denial of insurance coverage or the failure of an insurance company to provide the protections promised often adds additional stress to an already difficult situation. OLDER, LUNDY & WEISMAN prides itself on seeking enforcement of the protections that Florida law provides for individuals whose insurance companies have wrongfully denied claims.
Some examples of insurance coverage cases OLDER, LUNDY & WEISMAN have handled include:
- An insurance coverage dispute on behalf of a mother whose child was catastrophically injured in an automobile collision
- A medical doctor whose insurance company failed to protect him when a lawsuit was filed against him
- A large corporation that was abandoned by its insurer when it properly filed a claim for benefits
- A medical doctor whose disability insurer failed to pay his disability insurance benefits.
The firm also handles what are commonly referred to as “insurance bad faith” cases. In most of these cases, a person or family has been catastrophically injured and an insurance company has failed to properly protect the policyholder. In these situations, the injury victim or the policyholders need to act quickly to secure the services of a lawyer who not only understands the complexities an injury claim, but also has practical knowledge and experience to understand the insurance claims process.
In one of our recent cases for example, a young husband and father of a new-born daughter was injured while working when his work truck was hit by another vehicle. The family hired our firm to pursue damages including money for his reconstructive surgery, lost time from work, and past medical bills. At the conclusion of the case, the multiple insurance companies paid money damages on behalf of the wrongdoer in the automobile accident.
Our lawyers combine real world sensibilities and their legal experiences to provide our clients successful, aggressive and conscientious representation. We combine a thorough understanding of insurance issues and personal injury matters to ensure that every detail is addressed in your case. Over the course of ten years, our insurance/personal injury team has successfully recovered over $85 million in damages for our clients. We are a resource for families when they need us most.