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$13 Million Verdict in Product Liability Wrongful Death Case

The Haggard Law Firm’s Pedro Echarte and Todd Michaels, along with co-counsel Ernesto Santos of HALPERN | SANTOS | PINKERT, have obtained a $13 Million verdict in a Miami – Dade County Court in a wrongful death product liability case involving the carbon monoxide poisoning death of a father of two. 

On July 12, 2019, Matthew Burns died after succumbing to carbon monoxide poisoning resulting from his use and operation of a piece of machinery known as a “Shot Blaster, ” which he rented from Defendant SUNBELT RENTALS.

The Burns Family
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$11 Million Pre-Suit Catastrophic Injury Settlement

The Haggard Law Firm’s Michael Haggard and Adam Finkel secured an $11 Million pre-suit, policy limit settlement in a premises liability case involving the catastrophic injury of a 9-year-old boy.

On the morning of January 8, 2022, Mathew Jousett was playing inside the bedroom of his father’s apartment in the Greenwich Condominiums (1470 NE 123 Street, North Miami, Florida). At some point, one of his father’s girlfriend’s kids saw a window screen fall and immediately told his mother’s boyfriend, Thomas. It was then that Thomas, Mathew’s father, looked outside and saw the unthinkable: his son’s lifeless body on the concrete sidewalk. 

The child fell 7 stories. He was rushed to the hospital.

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$3.5 Million Settlement in Hotel Pool Drowning Case

The Haggard Law Firm’s Douglas McCarron has obtained a $3.5 Million settlement involving a drowning at a Florida hotel.

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