FLORIDA PLAINTIFF

Yesterday, Zarzaur Law, P.A. was able to settle a claim for a child who was the victim of a company that chose to illegally use hair dye instead of organic Henna ink for temporary tattoos.

The child was on vacation with her family when she went to a beach gift shop to get a temporary tattoo.  The store of advertising “Henna” Tattoos but instead of using Henna ink they were using hair dye that contained the dangerous chemical commonly known as PPD.  The PPD in the ink caused a chemical burn and left a scar on my client.  She also developed a permanent allergy to most type of inks and dyes which causes frequent and severe skin breakouts.

For more information on child injuries related to “Henna” Tattoos please feel free to contact our firm at www.zarzaurlaw.com.  Parent please confirm that any temporary tattoos for your children are being applied using only genuine and unadulterated Henna ink.

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As a prospective injured client of a law firm your usually going through the worst time in your life.  You have either been the victim of a serious injury or even worse have lost a family member that was the result of someone else’s negligence.  Many times you have lost your job as the result of this injury and your creditors now include all of the medical providers that have been added to your life by the choices that someone else made.  The very last thing you need at this vulnerable time is a lawyer that is looking out for his/her bottom line first.  

Your lawyer should be interested first in your well being.  He/She should be offering to do everything in their power to make sure your creditors know about your injury and financial situation.  They should be making sure that you get to medical professionals that have your health interest first.  Many times a small but substantial minority of health professionals are looking at accident victims as dollar signs.  Many Floridians do not know that as soon as you are in a wreck there is $10,000.00 in medical benefits that become immediately available to every person involved in the wreck even the person at fault.  This coverage is called “Personal Injury Protection” and has become, on many occasions, a medical bounty on the head of victims.  This has created an industry for many health professionals who take full advantage of these benefits mo matter what is in the best interest of the patient.  

The same law that created this $10,000.00 in automatic “no fault” benefits also required that an accident victim must show that they have a permanent injury before he/she can recover anything more than the $10,000.00.  (A little simpler explanation than contained in the statute but accurate enough for this discussion).  So, now the doctor can help the patient and the lawyer if they find a permanent injury.  Most of the time when a doctor diagnoses a permanent injury the patient truly has such a condition.  There are, however, a good piece of this process that has grown corrupt so that some doctors assign this serious label as a matter of course with little objective medical evidence. Obviously, this is a disgraceful and 

For purposes of this post, prospective injury clients should be looking for the following things when you first interview the lawyers for your case:  (1) Your lawyer should be more interested in you getting the correct diagnosis even if that diagnosis does not assist the value of your case.  The idea that some quack doctor thinks you have a permanent injury simply because he wants to please a lawyer ignores that the fact that the client is being used to increase the profits for both the doctor and the lawyer. Perhaps, the more disturbing issue is that clients are being stamped with a diagnosis of a permanent injury when, in reality, they have no such injury.  (2) Is this lawyer pressuring you in any way to sign his/her contract?  If she is then this is a good sign that their more interested in the fee on your case than they are in your best interest.  (3) Is the lawyer qualified in the area of personal injury?  Ask her if she is Board Certified since only about 1% of Florida lawyers have this distinction.  Ask her how many trials they have participated in during the last year.  Lawyers that are qualified will generally not put any pressure on you to sign their contract.  The Florida Bar’s website has a way to search for Board Certified lawyers in your particular city or county.  www.floridabar.org

Most importantly, if you get the feeling that the lawyer is interested more in creating a profitable lawsuit than she is in making sure you, as a client, is well represented then you have the wrong lawyer.  For example, many times the best thing I can advise a client is that they do not need a lawyer.  If their injury is not as serious as once thought or if they have made a recovery that was not expected, many times the best thing I can do for the client is advise them to not hire me.  This permits them to settle with the insurance company and not pay an attorney fee.  It also permits them to get on with their lives without having to deal with lawyers, quack doctors and insurance company lawyers.

So, as I have said on previous occasions….INTERVIEW SEVERAL LAWYERS FIRST BEFORE HIRING.  REMEMBER YOU ARE HIRING THE LAWYER TO SERVE YOUR BEST INTEREST NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.