Jury returns favorable verdict for accident victim

Attorney Randall Spivey obtained $250,000 in lost wages, medical expenses, and pain and suffering compensation for Thomas Fellows, a Fort Myers man who suffered shoulder injuries when a car driven by Carol Burton collided him as he was riding his motor scooter in the parking lot of a Publix.

The defendant's insurance policy limits were $10,000 but the defendant's insurance carrier failed to offer the policy limits timely and properly. As a result, a special law allowed plaintiff to take the case to trial to recover the full value of his case which he will then seek from the defendant's insurance company. Prior to trial, plaintiff offered to settle for $100,000 but the defendant's insurance company refused. At trial, the defendant's insurance company offered $35,000 which plaintiff rejected.

This is just another example of our firm protecting personal injury victims' rights, and pursuing those responsible of negligence and their insurers to the full extent of the law. Sometimes, as in this case, insurance companies demonstrate a bad faith that can on occasion backfire on them. Instead of paying its dues in proper time and manner, or later, of accepting a fair settlement offer, the insurance company chose to go all the way to a jury trial, expecting the plaintiff to drop his case out of exhaustion.

But once the law firm of Associates & Bruce L. Scheiner, Personal Injury Attorneys, P.A., takes a case, dropping it without fair compensation is out of the question. Mr. Spivey pursued this case to its end, proving once more that this firm is firmly on the side of the people who suffer injury because of the negligence of others, and against insurance companies that won't live up to their commitments.

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