Miami Partners Joe Goldberg and Sam Basch received a great trial result recently in a rejected tender/bad-faith set-up case in Miami-Dade County. Following an auto accident, Plaintiff had incurred over $300,000 in past medical expenses with CSK’s client having only $25,000 in insurance coverage.
At trial, CSK retained a biomechanical engineer to recreate the crash showing that had the Plaintiff been travelling at the posted speed limit, the accident would have never happened. However, because the Plaintiff was travelling 15 mph over the speed limit, she hit our client, before swerving to the right and colliding with a guardrail. Plaintiff asked for over $1M in economic damages alone and several millions in pain and suffering damages. After nearly 9 hours of deliberation, the jury found the Plaintiff to be 83% at fault and our client 17% at fault.
After reduction, Plaintiff was awarded just under $13,000.
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