Our client was a 25-year-old gentleman who suffered a fall through a roof while working in an attic for an HVAC company. As a result of the fall through the roof, the claimant was rendered paralyzed from the waist down. Claimant lived in a rural location by himself prior to the accident. At the time he hired attorney Stephen Harper,…
While working at a trade show out of state in 2005, the claimant suffered a hernia while lifting boxes. The client came to Reinhardt Harper Davis in 2008 for help because the worker’s compensation carrier was denying his claim for lost wages. Because of complications of the hernia mesh repair resulting in nerve entrapment and constant ongoing pain, the claimant…
Our 29-year-old client worked as an operator at a steel mill. He experienced bilateral above-the-knee amputations after being run over by a rail car. He was admitted to the ICU at VCU Hospital, where his pregnant wife was also a patient. Our client’s child was born while he was in the ICU. Our client was initially told he would never…
In a tragic and truly heart-wrenching case, our client was a young Mexican immigrant who had only recently obtained his work permit. While working on a highway road crew in Norfolk, Virginia, our client was placing orange safety cones along one of the lanes as he sat on the back of a slow-moving flatbed truck. At 3:00 am, a drunk…
Our Guatemalan-born client sustained catastrophic injuries, when the landscape truck he was riding in crashed down a ravine after his co-worker became unconscious. He suffered an above the knee amputation of his right leg, other orthopedic injuries, a concussion, and severe depression. He remained at VCU Hospital for three weeks before moving to a rehab facility. After extensive treatment and…
Our client, who was a supervisor for a commercial roofing company, was struck from behind by a van operated by an employee of a HVAC service company while driving his employer’s king cab pick-up. Despite photographs that revealed very little damage to either vehicle, all passengers in our client’s truck reported a significant impact. Although our client did not seek…
Our Spanish-speaking client fell from the roof of a commercial building while working for a plumbing contractor. In addition to pursuing a workers’ compensation claim, our client filed a personal injury suit against the property owner, property manager, and the tenant undergoing the renovations. The tenant then sued the general contractor as a third-party defendant. Remaining facts related to the…
The 75-year-old plaintiff was struck from behind at a high rate of speed by a full-size pick-up truck after he slowed for backed-up traffic. Liability was never contested, as the defendant left a note for the plaintiff at the hospital, in which he admitted fault for the accident and expressed remorse. The plaintiff suffered multiple internal injuries, spinal fracture, and…
The claimant, who worked as an executive chef, slipped off a stepstool in the walk-in freezer and fell. She struck her head on the freezer door and stuck out her left wrist to break her fall. She was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury and a TFCC tear in her left wrist. Following wrist surgery, she developed severe Complex Regional…
Client was a 31-year-old married gentleman working in Richmond, Virginia when he fell off a roof. He was wearing a safety harness at the time, but the restraining gear on the safety harness failed, and the client was injured and rendered a paraplegic. He was originally from Mexico with three small children ages 13,10, and 4, who were residing with his wife in Mexico at…
