Silvis, Ambrose, Lindquist & Coch, P.C., has obtained numerous beneficial results for its clients, including the following:
Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
- $9 million settlement of wrongful death claim (thought by mediator to be the largest prejudgment settlement in Georgia); and have had three (3) other results in excess of $1 million
For details on additional personal injury and wrongful death results, see below.
DUIs
- Twenty-one (21) successful DUI defenses in 2015
Civil Litigation
- Successful litigation and settlement of contested guardianship cases
Business and Real Estate Transactions
- Closing on multimillion-dollar sale of stock in going business with simultaneous real estate sale in 2015
- Closings on several multimillion-dollar purchases, sales and refinances of industrial facilities over past five years
- Long-range planning for numerous corporations, LLCs, and their owners and officers
Employment Law
- Successful resolution of three employment disputes by employees of large corporations in last two years
Wills and Probate
- Drafting and execution of numerous wills, powers of attorney, advance directives for health care and living trusts
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Numerous probates in Georgia and Florida
- Successful probate litigation including settlement of nine (9) will contest cases
- Two (2) successful suits resulting in settlements to recover real estate and other properties taken via elder abuse and deceptive practices in 2014 and 2015
- Settlement of multimillion-dollar suit for breach of fiduciary duty and sale of megafarm in South Georgia in 2015
Other significant injury and wrongful death case results include:
$9,000,000 | Wrongful death settlement. |
$1,425,000 | Wrongful death claim vs. state of Georgia and CSX Transportation, Inc. |
$1,185,000 | Client sustained closed head injury arising out of wreck involving pizza delivery employee. |
$1,100,000 | Bad faith insurance denial involving commercial insurance policy. |
$940,000 | Products liability claim in which client sustained traumatic right arm injuries in a farming accident. |
$750,000 | Husband-wife clients sustained multiple fractures in collision with county truck. |
$600,000 | Motor vehicle collision against company-owned vehicle causing multiple traumatic injuries. |
$525,000 | Elderly client suffered multiple fractures in tractor-trailer wreck. |
$500,000 | Client sustained amputation injury due to defectively guarded machinery. |
$500,000 | Client suffered hip fracture requiring hip replacement surgery in a trucking collision. |
$500,000 | Client sustained crushing forearm fracture due to defendant's negligent operation of lathe. |
$360,000 | Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) claim against Florida VA Nursing Home for negligent care — leading to client suffering a major burn. |
$335,000 | Motor vehicle collision involving fractured orbital and concussion. |
$300,000 | Female client sustained a blunt force chest injury in a motor vehicle accident. |
$300,000 | Ambulance negligence case in which ambulance negligently ran a red light at a high rate of speed — causing traumatic injuries. |
$275,000 | Construction site accident — multiple injuries due to defectively constructed scaffolding. |
$250,000 | Motor vehicle collision involving injury to cervical trauma. |
$220,000 | Georgia Tort Claims Act (GTCA)/Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) involving USAF truck accident at a negligently constructed intersection. |
$175,000 | Elderly client suffered fractured right arm after being hit by work van while riding his bicycle. |
$175,000 | Medical malpractice claim against pharmacy for misprescription. |
$130,000 | Settlement for injuries suffered in a car accident. |