Nugent Law Firm

• $3,400,000.00 recovery for a man injured in an automobile accident, who developed complications from surgery, including peripheral neuropathy.
• $1,150,000.00 for assault and negligence recovered on behalf of a client who was shot and suffered paralysis. The recovery was made from a primary and excess homeowners policy after defeating the insurance company’s attempt to disclaim coverage based upon intentional acts exclusions.
• $1,800,000.00 jury verdict recovered on a fraud and contract claim in the Federal District Court, Southern District, West Palm Beach Division, Florida.
• $1,375,000.00 settlement obtained on behalf of a client who suffered serious injuries in a construction accident in New York City.
• $1,000,000.00 policy limit settlement on behalf of a client who died as a result of a head on collision with a truck. Accident reconstruction experts were hired because of a dispute as to whose lane the accident occurred in. Defendant paid its policy limits after a pretrial ruling by a judge that plaintiff decedent’s blood alcohol level was not admissible since there was no evidence it contributed to the accident.
• $700,000.00 gross jury verdict on behalf of a client crossing a state highway at night as a pedestrian.
• $400,000.00 settlement on behalf of a client who slipped and fell and suffered injuries in a supermarket.
• $600,000.00 medical malpractice settlement on behalf of a client for podiatric malpractice.
• $550,000.00 medical malpractice settlement- failure to diagnose cancer.
• $400,000.00 medical malpractice settlement – cosmetic laser surgery resulting in scarring
• $300,000.00 medical malpractice settlement for failure to diagnose charcot foot.              
• $300,000.00 legal malpractice settlement.
• $360,000.00 settlement, during trial, for employment discrimination.
• $495,000.00 construction accident settlement, on the third day of trial.
• $350,000.00 automobile accident settlement, for a client who suffered reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
• $315,000.00 for injury resulting from a negligently started fire.
• $300,000.00 jury verdict, on an automobile accident case where defendant’s insurance company State Farm appealed a $55,000.00 arbitration award. Defendant only had insurance limits of $100,000.00, and State Farm agreed to pay $140,000.00, $40,000.00 over its policy limits, just prior to the jury returning with its verdict. Allstate Insurance Company was held responsible for the balance as the injured person’s underinsured motorist carrier.
• $125,000.00 jury verdict, against a defendant insured by Allstate. The defendant only had $15,000.00 in coverage, and Allstate refused to make any offer. Allstate eventually paid the entire verdict, pursuant to bad faith laws in New Jersey.    

Other significant awards, verdicts and settlements have been obtained for Nugent Law Firm clients in areas of construction and work place accidents, professional malpractice, psychological malpractice, slip and falls, automobile/truck/motorcycle accidents, civil rights violations, police/excessive force.