Laurie Adams and David Drahos, of the West Palm Beach office, received a complete defense verdict after a seven day trial on liability. Plaintiff was a motorcyclist who argued that Laurie and David’s elderly snowbird client crossed the center line while she was driving around a sharp curve. There were no witnesses to the accident. Plaintiff spent two months in a trauma hospital and rehab hospital, underwent nine surgeries and revision surgeries with poor results, and incurred extremely high medical bills from physicians and hospitals.

The defense experts agreed that the Plaintiff was permanently injured with a 22% impairment rating, needed multiple future surgeries, was left with an extremely prominent limp for which he would always need a quad cane, and could not work again as a mechanic. The Plaintiff even called the defense expert witnesses as his own experts on permanency and future medical care.

However, after testimony from multiple accident reconstruction and human factors experts during which Laurie severely discredited a well known accident reconstruction expert and David entirely eliminating Plaintiff’s human factor’s experts’ opinions, the jury returned a no liability verdict in one hour for the defense.