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Recent Successes

Multi-Million Dollar Settlement: Negligent Security: Property owner knew of prior crimes on the premises and failed to maintain adequate security despite knowledge of risk of criminal activity and specific warnings of vulnerability in the parking lot. Confidential Settlement.

Multi-Million Dollar Verdict: Wrongful Death: Construction company found liable for negligence of employee in dropping a pallet of construction materials from a bucket hoist onto another subcontractor's employee, causing his death.

Confidential Settlement: Negligent Hiring and Retention: 15 year old girl who was placed by juvenile court into youth center was raped by youth care worker. Incomplete background check had been performed on youth care worker and youth care worker was still counseling children despite multiple citations in employment file for inappropriate conduct.

$3,000,000 Verdict: Medical Malpractice: Hospital and Obstetrician/Gynecologist liable for negligence for failure to diagnose perforated anus on newborn child.

$2,300,000 Settlement: Products Liability: 57 year old man who suffered severe lower back injuries when thrown from a hydraulic bucket lift which malfunctioned and failed due to a defective bolt.

$1,500,000 Settlement: Automobile Accident: Uninsured Motorist Insurance claim on behalf of a 59 year old woman who sustained lower leg lacerations requiring surgery in an automobile accident with an underinsured driver.

$1,500,000 Verdict: Negligence: Cable company found liable for negligence for causing an intersectional automobile accident by removing a stop sign while digging a trench in the street.

$1,300,000 Settlement: Automobile Accident: 59 year old woman with low back injury and multiple surgeries resulting from a low impact automobile accident with minimal vehicle damage.

$975,000 Settlement: Medical Malpractice: 3 year old girl sustained total deafness in one ear as the result of ear lavage performed in pediatrician's office by unsupervised and inadequately trained nursing staff using a water pik meant for cleaning teeth.

$950,000 Verdict: Negligent Design: Racetrack operator found liable for negligent construction and design of an exercise training track which resulted in a rider being thrown from his horse and sustaining a complex ankle fracture.

$950,000 Settlement: Premises Liability: 40 year old visitor sustains complex foot fracture as the result of a fall on a greasy, poorly maintained outdoor stairwell of an apartment complex.

$700,000 Settlement: Medical Malpractice: Physician's failure to diagnose cancerous lung nodule in 45 year old woman.

$400,000 Settlement: Medical Malpractice: Physician's failure to recognize and diagnose cancerous lesion in breast of 46 year old woman.

$370,000 Settlement: Uninsured Motorists Claim: 45 year old woman who sustained broken orbital bones, facial lacerations and broken jaw in accident caused by a phantom hit and run vehicle.

$350,000 Settlement: Automobile Accident: Insurer tendered policy limits for severe leg laceration requiring skin graft operation on 15 year old boy suffered in single vehicle automobile accident. Further recovery was made for underinsured motorist's benefits.

$325,000 Settlement: Premises Liability: 26 year old man was injured and sustained hand and knee injuries when he fell off of a warehouse loading dock due to the owner's removal of safety railings on the dock.

$260,000 Verdict: Premises Liability: Homeowner found liable for damages when dogs knocked mail carrier to the ground causing torn knee ligaments requiring surgery.

$250,000 Verdict: Premises Liability: Store owner found liable for injuries sustained by accidental burn victim.

$245,000 Settlement: Insurance Bad Faith: Insurance company paid well in excess of $10,000 policy limits to vehicle owner whose insurance company wrongfully denied coverage for property damage claim due to an alleged misrepresentation on policy application. Ultimately, insurance carrier paid excess damages as well as attorney's fees and costs.

$225,000 Settlement: Pedestrian Accident: 7 year old child crossing the street in Miami Beach was struck by a minivan and sustained head injuries. Parents claimed that the child suffered neuropsychological injuries as a consequence of the accident.

$206,000 Verdict: Automobile Accident: Driver found liable for low back injury sustained by 26 year old man in low impact automobile accident.

$205,000 Settlement: Automobile Accident: 50 year old woman sustained back injury requiring surgery as the result of an automobile accident with questionable liability.

$200,000 Settlement: Automobile Accident: 48 year old woman who sustained neck injury requiring cervical diskectomy surgery.

$200,000 Settlement: Pedestrian Accident: 25 year old man suffered leg injury when he was struck by a car while exiting night club. Night club was negligent in obscuring oncoming cars from patrons exiting the club.

$200,000 Settlement: Uninsured Motorists Claim: 59 year old man sustained bilateral lower leg fractures when struck by a phantom hit and run driver while crossing the street. Pedestrian's automobile insurance carrier paid full limits of uninsured motorists insurance coverage.

$185,000 Settlement: Automobile Accident: 46 year old man sustained shoulder injury requiring arthroscopic surgery to repair rotator cuff tear.

$175,000 Settlement: Automobile Accident: 36 year old man sustained low back injuries which required a lumbar fusion surgery in an automobile accident with a commercial nursery truck.

$160,000 Settlement: Automobile Accident: 30 year old police office was involved in an automobile accident and sustained fractured wrist in dominant gun hand. Recovery was made from uninsured motorists coverage as well as driver who caused accident.

$160,000 Settlement: Automobile Accident: 70 year old man claimed that automobile accident caused him to suffer a mini-stroke in the days after the accident.

$150,000 Settlement: Automobile Accident: 50 year old man who sustained shoulder injury requiring arthroscopic surgery to repair rotator cuff tear.

$150,000 Settlement: Automobile Accident: 47 year old man sustained knee injury requiring surgery to replace torn anterior cruciate ligament.

$148,000 Settlement: Legal Malpractice: Policy limits of legal malpractice policy paid to 44 year old woman whose personal injury case was dismissed due to incompetent counsel's application of the wrong body of law to her case.

$138,000 Verdict: Salon Malpractice: 74 year old man who contracted a staph infection on his finger from a manicure due to the negligent manner in which the manicurist's instruments were sterilized between procedures. Plaintiff required an operation to remove a portion of his finger and required IV antibiotics post-surgery.

$130,000 Settlement: Crop Insurance Claim: Nursery owners made claim for damaged crops and livestock due to excessive rains. Insurance company initially denied claim but eventually paid for total loss as well as attorney's fees and costs.

$115,000 Settlement: Pedestrian Accident: 38 year old man who was struck while crossing a six lane roadway and sustained leg injuries. Plaintiff was not crossing at an intersection and had crossed four lanes of traffic prior to being struck.

$100,000 Settlement: Automobile Accident: Insurer tendered policy limits for automobile accident involving 40 year old police officer who sustained a hip injury.

$100,000 Settlement: Automobile Accident: 45 year old man who was rear-ended in a motor vehicle accident and sustained a low back injury which resulted in a drop foot condition.

$100,000 Settlement: Pedestrian Accident: Woman who was struck by a Miami-Dade County transit bus received full limits of coverage under sovereign immunity for severe leg injuries sustained.

$100,000 Settlement: Automobile Accident: Fort Myers police officer who sustained shoulder injury in automobile accident which occurred in Lee County, Florida.

$100,000 Settlement: Uninsured Motorists Claim: Insurance company tendered full policy limits for automobile accident in which 42 year old woman sustained back injuries

Kandell & Kandell, P.A. represents clients throughout all of South Florida, including those in Miami, Coconut Grove, Homestead, Kendall, Hialeah, Miami Beach, North Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Coral Springs, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Pembroke Pines, Sunrise, Plantation, Pompano Beach, Tamarac, Deerfield Beach, Lauderhill, Margate, and Weston. Our representation spans Miami- Dade County, Palm Beach County, Monroe County, and Broward County, FL.