Personal Injury and Wrongful Death

The Denman Law Firm specializes in trial practice representing victims of accidents who have sustained serious personal injuries or family members who have lost a loved one due to the negligence or wrongdoing of others. We have successfully represented victims of accidents for over 26 years! If there is no recovery then we charge no attorneys fees! Although less than 10% of all personal injury cases are tried in court, we believe that a case well prepared for trial will result in a good settlement, if one can be reached. Examples of the type of cases we handle are discussed below:

MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS: When vehicle occupants are seriously injured due to the failure to use due care by another vehicle operator they deserve to be compensated. Typically, the operator of another vehicle due to negligence hits the vehicle the victim is riding in by rear ending it, running a stop sign or red light, cutting it off or in other ways endangers the victim due to negligence. We fight for our clients right to be reimbursed for their medical, nursing and hospital bills and lost wages along with compensation for bodily injuries, pain and suffering, mental anguish and disability.

AVIATION ACCIDENTS: We have more than 26 years experience in handling aviation accident and insurance cases. Frequently, in general aviation accident cases aircraft liability insurers seek to deny insurance coverage to aircraft owners, pilots and injured passengers. Jim Denman is known to be an expert in the law relating to aviation insurance coverage. He has played a significant role in the development of aviation insurance coverage jurisprudence in the late 1970's and 1980's. In recent years The Denman Law Firm has represented victims of aircraft accidents and family members of loved ones lost due to aircraft accidents involving faulty maintenance, failure of aircraft engine components, and fuel exhaustion.

DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS AND PRODUCT FAILURES: The Denman Law Firm has extensive experience in analyzing and evaluating the role product defects or failures have had in causing accidents involving serious injuries or death. We invariably involve product experts and engineering consultants to assist us with this. We attempt to thoroughly understand all the legal and engineering aspects of our products liability cases and to creatively articulate the complexity of the product defects or failures in an understandable way to judges and juries. If a product defect or failure causes injuries or death, the injured victim or survivor may recover money damages from the manufacturer, distributor and/or retailer of the product. Often the failure to provide an adequate warning or instruction for a hazard known to the manufacturer or reseller of the product may render the product defective. In recent years The Denman Law Firm has represented clients permanently impaired or injured due to dangerous chemicals, aircraft component failures, exercise equipment failures, and as a result of other similar product defects or failures. We sometimes call product liability litigation "people protection" because it encourages engineering improvements in commercial products so as to prevent injuries to others in the future due the same defects or failures.

PREMISES LIABILITY: In recent years the courts have held owners and occupants of commercial premises to be responsible for injuries from foreseeable attacks as a result of the failure to provide needed security. A business owner or occupant is required to keep its premises reasonably safe for business customers. Similarly, a business customer has a right to expect a safe condition of the premises. A well known premises liability scenario involves the "slip and fall". Under these circumstances a business owner or occupant has a duty to its customer to remove foreign substances and objects from the the walking areas on its premises within a reasonable time after its presence becomes known or should have been known. If the failure to do this results in injuries to the customer of the business owner or occupant due to their negligence then the customer may have a cause of action for compensation. Investigation early after a premises accident before changes occur to the premises may be critical to a successful outcome of the claim by the client.

ANIMAL ATTACKS: The most frequent type of injuries caused by animals is by vicious dogs. The Denman Law Firm in recent years has successfully represented victims of dog attacks. Florida law makes the owner of a vicious dog and some other domesticated animals strictly liable for injuries the animal causes to others, absent provocation or a qualifying "Bad Dog" sign.

BOATING AND MARITIME ACCIDENTS: The Denman Law Firm has been called upon to represent seamen injured due to unseaworthy and dangerously outfitted and equipped vessels. The firm has also represented passengers in boating accident cases occurring in navigable waters. Boating accidents may occur from dangerously slippery decking due to spillage or interior leaks, capsizing, falls overboard, collisions, fire, sinkings, and explosions. Cruise Line accidents involving injuries to passengers from poorly marked raised thresholds and foreign matter on ship decks are common occurrences on cruises departing ports in Miami and Fort Lauderdale.

TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES: The Denman Law Firm has in recent years handled cases involving closed head injuries. Mild to moderate traumatic brain damage can occur from a direct blow to the head, and from the brain undergoing a rapid acceleration/deceleration movement (i.e. such as with a whiplash ) without direct external trauma to the head. A common misconception is that loss of consciousness is required for permanent brain injury.

WRONGFUL DEATH: A legal cause of action for wrongful death may arise when a person dies as a result of the negligence of another. Causes of death may involve one of the types of accidents above. Under the often, difficult emotional circumstances of these cases we try to be sensitive to the loss our clients have suffered while working diligently to help them recover the compensation the law allows.

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