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$200,000 Tampa Car Accident Settlement

Mark Hickey
13-year-old Austin had just started his sophomore year in high school when a negligent, uninsured driver ran a red light and forever changed his life.  Austin’s parents — small business owners who had wisely purchased “uninsured motorist” (UM) coverage to protect their family in this situation — made a claim under their UM coverage.  Soon thereafter, in addition to getting treatment for their son’s devastating head and neck injuries, Austin’s parents found themselves facing another...
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$300,000 Plant City Slip & Fall Settlement

Mark Hickey
Tampa injury lawyer Frank Fernandez recovered $300,000 settlement for a 59-year-old woman tripped and fell over a jagged asphalt edge of a walkway leading to her retirement community’s mailboxes.  As a result of her fall, the Plaintiff dislocated her elbow and fractured her right arm requiring multiple painful surgical procedures.  Prior to hiring the Fernandez Firm Accident Injury Attorneys, her previous attorney was reluctant to file a lawsuit or go to trial offering to settle...
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Confidential Settlement – Sexual Assault/Negligent Employee Retention

Mark Hickey
Tampa injury lawyer Jennifer Gentry Fernandez obtained a confidential settlement for a female client who was raped in her home by a former co-worker. Months before the horrific sexual battery, the 51-year-old factory worker had complained to her employer about a male co-worker’s increasingly bizarre behavior.  The man, a long-term employee of the Polk County factory, was temporarily suspended, with pay, while the employer investigated, ultimately determining the woman’s complaints to be unsubstantiated. The assailant...
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$158,000 Final Judgment Tampa Car Accident

Mark Hickey
Tampa car accident lawyers Frank Fernandez and Jennifer Fernandez obtained a $158,000 Final Judgment following a jury Verdict for a 32-year-old woman who sustained neck injuries in a rear-end car accident in Tampa, Florida.  At trial, the Defendant denied she was liable claiming that she had suffered a seizure and blacked out just prior to the car crash. The Defendant failed to prove her case and in the end, her insurer Allstate Insurance Company was...
Personal Injury Results

$136,000 Jury Verdict Against Polk County Sheriff’s Office

Mark Hickey
Tampa car accident lawyers Frank Fernandez and Jennifer Fernandez obtained a $136,000 jury Verdict on behalf of Albert Ceballos, a 52-year-old Mexican immigrant who suffered low back injuries as a result of two separate car accidents, the first involving a Polk County Sheriff’s Deputy and the second involving an underinsured driver.  At the time of the first collision, which occurred at 1:30 a.m. the Plaintiff was a pedestrian who had stopped to render emergency medical...