Negligent security cases involve, unfortunately, a person being injured due to a criminal attacker usually in a commercial property. Commercial property owners are responsible for having security guards, lighting and cameras to keep you safe when you use the property. Unfortunately, if property owner doesn’t have these measures in place, you can get injured or … Continue reading “Negligent Security”

In 2017, the CDC stated that 5977 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in the United States, that’s about one death every 88 minutes. Here in South Florida the stats are even more terrifying. A car accident at 10 miles an hour may not seem like much but a pedestrian or bicyclist being hit by … Continue reading “Pedestrian Accidents”

So if you get hurt on the job, you may have a workers compensation claim. The important thing is that you notify your employer right away, you get into medical care because if you don’t do that, you’re probably going to be denied a claim. But oftentimes you can have two cases in one, so … Continue reading “Worker’s Compensation”

Maritime cases are different than normal accident cases because they involve maritime law or they involve a cruise ship contract. You have less time to see what is the basic starting point that’s very important to know. You can have a slip and fall or trip and fall or a boating accident. But if the … Continue reading “What is Maritime Law?”

For my entire career I’ve been involved with products liability cases. I’ve been practicing for over 25 years, for 10 years I was a defense lawyer, I defended product liability claims. Now for the last 15 years I’ve only represented the little guy people just like you. I’ve been involved with products liability cases involving … Continue reading “Product Liability”

I’ve been involved with handling spinal cord injury cases for about 25 years of practice. Unfortunately we get these kinds of claims in our practice, we’ve had cases involving high function spinal cord injury patients, we’ve had paraplegics, quadriplegics cases. These cases are entirely personal to me because I have friends and family been affected … Continue reading “Spinal Cord Injuries”

Brain injury cases are unique. Unfortunately at Coffey McPharlin we get telephone calls from families too often, a loved one has suffered a brain injury in an accident and needs answers to their questions. We handle these cases entirely different from most other kinds of cases because as catastrophic injury, we engage a team of … Continue reading “Brain Injuries”

A property owner has a duty to ensure its property is in a reasonably safe condition for all business patrons. This includes making reasonable inspections of its property to identify any dangerous conditions and rectify those dangers immediately, additionally a property owner must comply with all relevant building codes and ordinances for its premises. If … Continue reading “What is Premises Liability?”

If there’s been a trucking accident, you should immediately contact an attorney. Insurance companies have go teams that can respond within minutes of a call from a trucking company. Evidence is critical and can easily disappear, you want to make sure no stone goes unturned. Recently, we had a case where a woman was rear-ended … Continue reading “What to do in a Trucking Accident”