The Haggard Law Firm’s Douglas McCarron and co-counsel Eric Romano of the Romano Law Firm have secured a $1 Million pre-suit, policy limit settlement in a dram shop (liquor liability) wrongful death case.
On July 31st, 2021, Thomas Lewis attempted to break up a fight that began in the Foster’s Too Lounge. During that effort, Thomas was hit over the head with multiple beer bottles by overserved patrons. The attack killed him.
The Haggard Law Firm’s Pedro Echarte and Michael Haggard have obtained a $19.5 Million global settlement involving two separate negligent security cases against common defendants. While the incidents were entirely unrelated, the same common defendants owned and operated the two multi-family residential properties in South Florida. Both incidents happened only months apart from each other. The names of the parties are confidential. Because both incidents were covered by the same insurance policies, Echarte and Haggard negotiated the settlement of both cases for the available policy limits of $19,000,000 in addition to an extra $500,000 directly from the defendant property management company. Both cases settled shortly after the respective lawsuits were filed.
On October 16, 2021, 24-year-old Jamal Drummond was visiting the Holiday Inn Express along Metrocentre Boulevard attending a party, when he was shot and killed. Drummond was a father of two.
Drummond with one of his minor children
That evening, a trespasser arrived at the hotel and walked around the property looking for a woman.
He had a photo of the woman on his phone, asking guests if they saw her. This man remained on the property without any lawful purpose. He was never approached by staff. The trespasser spent time within the hotel making loud noises near the front desk. The hotel staff still ignored him.
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.
The Haggard Law Firm’s Joshua Padron and Todd Michaels have secured a $1.5 Million settlement in a negligent security personal injury case involving a gas station shooting.