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The cruise ship accident this past weekend aboard the Costa Concordia is inexcusable. With modern technology including sonar and GPS which average people have in their cell phones and recreational boaters almost universally use it is extraordinary and gross negligence for a professional sea captain, with thousands of lives in his hands to make errors which would cause a cruise ship with state of the art navigational tools, run aground. What is even more remarkable about this cruise ship accident is that this could happen in familiar waters just hours from one of the major cruise ports in the world. It is criminal that a captain would leave defenseless passengers and crew behind to avoid injury to himself.

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On November 22, 2010 a Miami-Dade County jury decided that Defendant Tenet Healthcare Systems d/b/a North Shore Hospital was negligent and thus legally responsible for a sexual assault by one of their patients on another patient in the hospital. The sexual assault took place in the behavioral unit of North Shore Hospital in 2007. After a six day trial the jury deliberated for nearly 4 hours before unanimously awarding $1,310,000. The case was tried by Philip M. Gerson, Nicholas I. Gerson, and Edward Schwartz of Gerson and Schwartz, P.A.

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Just last week we received a $1,200,000 jury verdict for the widow of a lifetime cigarette smoker who died in 1993. The tobacco industry used every available appeal to delay justice for our client. Now, 76 she finally received an award for the loss of her husband on May 22, 2009. The defendant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company will appeal again. We will defend the jury verdict as far as it goes and as long as it takes. Ultimately, justice will prevail. At Gerson & Schwartz we continue our 39 year commitment to helping individuals get justice from corporate wrongdoers. Our team of trial lawyers has the experience to handle all types of personal injury cases and wrongful death claims. For more information on how we can help contact us at 305-371-6000.

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Gerson and Schwartz, PA recently obtained a $240,0000 settlement for our client who was assaulted in her apartment complex. Our client, had returned home one evening and parked her vehicle in her assigned space in the parking lot area in front of her second floor condominium apartment. As she exited her vehicle she was grabbed by a young black male, pulled out of the vehicle and thrown to the asphalt pavement. The man got in her vehicle and drove off the property.

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Gerson and Schwartz PA, along with co-counsel obtained a $2.5 million jury award for our client, who suffered severe – and permanent – injuries when the deck of a house she was visiting collapsed from under her. The house – a foreclosed Atlanta property that had been listed for sale on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Website – had been examined, prior to the visit, by HUD inspectors, who overlooked or ignored dangerous signs of rotten wood.

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Judge David Miller ruled last week that the Engle Trust Fund with over 600 Million dollars will be eligible for smokers to claim beginning on April 25, 2008. In a string of recent decisions in favor for sick smokers in the last few months, former Engle Class Members may finally be able to take a portion of these monies that were set aside years ago.

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Like other responsible plaintiff’s lawyers we urge many clients to structure significant settlement proceeds for their future security. The benefits of tax-free structured future payouts to plaintiffs are well known and carefully explained to clients at the time of settlement. If there is a downside to these plans it is that no one can foresee the future and thus the structure payment program sometimes no longer meets the client’s needs because of unexpected events and changes in the client’s health or lifestyle.

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We have had several confidential settlements during our 37 years in practice. At Gerson & Schwartz, P.A. we oppose confidentiality in settlement agreements. It is obvious the public good is better served by open and full disclosure of settlements especially in product liability cases.

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