Our client was driving in Seminole County with her four children in the car -- including her infant daughter -- when a driver employed by a commercial landscaping company failed to yield the right of way at an intersection and slammed his pickup truck into the side of her vehicle. The Longwood Police Department cited the at-fault driver for careless driving and assigned him 100% fault. After months of conservative treatment failed to provide lasting relief, she underwent a total disc arthroplasty at C4-5 and C5-6. Her post-operative recovery was brutal and she was entirely absent from her children's lives during recovery. Mausner Group filed suit in Seminole County and secured a global settlement of $850,000.
The liability case was airtight. The at-fault driver was cited at the scene, and the landscaping company admitted in litigation that the driver was operating the truck in the course and scope of his employment. The damages case was built around the surgical record, a life care plan prepared by a board-certified life care planner identifying decades of future medical needs, and the human story of a mother of four whose ability to parent and live her life was fundamentally altered by another driver's careless turn.
