Work truck rollover, wrongful death
Our client was a passenger in a work truck on a private dirt road owned by the company.
What we have recovered
Recent case results
More than $200 million recovered for clients across three decades, and several of the matters below were tried to a jury rather than settled. Call 954-522-5800 and a lawyer will tell you where your own case stands.
Funeral home negligence
$1,000,000 compensatory and $2,500,000 punitive, after a funeral home lost a family’s cremated remains and then forged documents to conceal it.
Covered by 6 news reportsPedestrian accident
Settlement
Why we are willing to try one
What a verdict says that a settlement figure cannot
Most injury cases settle, and that is usually the right outcome. But a settlement only happens because the other side decided it preferred one to the alternative, and what creates that preference is the belief that the firm across the table will actually pick a jury.
Insurers keep score, and they keep it by firm
They know which firms in a county try cases and which ones always fold, and they value a claim accordingly before anyone has said a word about it. That record is worth more at a negotiating table than anything a law firm can put on a billboard, and it is the reason the four verdicts on this page matter more than the totals do.
Several of these were reported by news organizations at the time. Those reports are further down, so the numbers here can be read against somebody else's account rather than only ours.
Verdicts and settlements
Some of the cases we have won
Some of these were argued to a jury rather than agreed in a conference room, and those carry a verdict mark. Scroll the deck, or use the filter to see one kind on its own.
- $3,500,000
Funeral home negligence
$1,000,000 compensatory and $2,500,000 punitive, after a funeral home lost a family’s cremated remains and then forged documents to conceal it.
Verdict Jury verdict 6 reports → - $2,011,000
Wrongful death, out-of-code stairwell
A father and grandfather died in a fall down a makeshift stairwell built when an owner split a townhouse into two units without permits.
Verdict Broward County jury verdict - $2,000,000
Heavy machinery injury
A landscaping supply company employee ran over our client’s foot with heavy machinery, costing him multiple surgeries, skin grafting and a lifetime of care.
Settlement - $1,387,060.58
Propane explosion
Our client was servicing propane tanks behind a Pompano Beach bakery when they exploded, burning his arms and face.
Verdict Broward County jury verdict 1 report → - $800,000
Cyclist struck at a traffic circle
Our client, an experienced cyclist, was riding legally in the bike lane approaching the traffic circle at East Camino Real and Royal Palm Way in Boca Raton when an SUV owned by the Royal Palm Improvement Association struck him.
Settlement after suit was filed - $500,000
Funeral home body mix-up
A Fort Lauderdale funeral home swapped a stillborn daughter with another family’s stillborn son and buried one of the babies in the wrong grave.
Settlement 1 report → - $300,000
Restaurant slip and fall
A restaurant that ignored its own posted safety procedures broke an elderly client’s arm, then argued at trial that she had taken too much medication, then not enough, and finally that she caused the spill herself from fifteen feet away.
Verdict Miami-Dade jury verdict 1 report → - Confidential The amount is sealed by the settlement itself
Diving injury at a short-term rental
A serious neck injury from a dive off the dock of a Fort Myers Airbnb on the Caloosahatchee River, on a failure to warn of shallow, murky water.
Confidential settlement - Confidential The amount is sealed by the settlement itself
Apartment complex shooting
A young client was shot during a violent crime at a Miami-Dade apartment complex.
Confidential settlement - Confidential The amount is sealed by the settlement itself
Fatal motorcycle crash
Law enforcement first put fault for this fatal Miami-Dade motorcycle crash on the rider who died.
Confidential settlement - Not published Capped by sovereign immunity, so the figure is not published
Cyclist killed by a county transit bus
A twenty-year-old was riding his bike through a Plantation crosswalk on an illuminated walk signal when a Broward County Transit bus turned right on red into him and killed him.
Broward County wrongful death settlement 2 reports → - $250,000
E-bike accident
Our client was riding his e-bike to work along North Federal Highway in Boca Raton when an SUV turned right into a parking lot across his path, knocking him off the bike and tearing his shoulder badly enough to need surgery.
Full policy limits settlement - $100,000
Car accident, fault reversed
A client was seriously hurt making a U-turn in Fort Lauderdale, and the responding officers assigned fault for a right-of-way violation.
Broward County policy limits settlement - $95,000
Hotel lobby slip and fall
Our client was leaving a restaurant through the lobby of the Westin Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort when she slipped on a freshly mopped floor and fractured her ankle.
Settlement after suit was filed - $5,400,000
Work truck rollover, wrongful death
Our client was a passenger in a work truck on a private dirt road owned by the company.
Settlement on the eve of trial - $3,850,000
Pedestrian accident
Settlement
Settlement
- $3,500,000
Funeral home negligence
$1,000,000 compensatory and $2,500,000 punitive, after a funeral home lost a family’s cremated remains and then forged documents to conceal it.
Verdict Jury verdict 6 reports → - $2,011,000
Wrongful death, out-of-code stairwell
A father and grandfather died in a fall down a makeshift stairwell built when an owner split a townhouse into two units without permits.
Verdict Broward County jury verdict - $1,387,060.58
Propane explosion
Our client was servicing propane tanks behind a Pompano Beach bakery when they exploded, burning his arms and face.
Verdict Broward County jury verdict 1 report → - $300,000
Restaurant slip and fall
A restaurant that ignored its own posted safety procedures broke an elderly client’s arm, then argued at trial that she had taken too much medication, then not enough, and finally that she caused the spill herself from fifteen feet away.
Verdict Miami-Dade jury verdict 1 report →
- $2,000,000
Heavy machinery injury
A landscaping supply company employee ran over our client’s foot with heavy machinery, costing him multiple surgeries, skin grafting and a lifetime of care.
Settlement - $800,000
Cyclist struck at a traffic circle
Our client, an experienced cyclist, was riding legally in the bike lane approaching the traffic circle at East Camino Real and Royal Palm Way in Boca Raton when an SUV owned by the Royal Palm Improvement Association struck him.
Settlement after suit was filed - $500,000
Funeral home body mix-up
A Fort Lauderdale funeral home swapped a stillborn daughter with another family’s stillborn son and buried one of the babies in the wrong grave.
Settlement 1 report → - Confidential The amount is sealed by the settlement itself
Diving injury at a short-term rental
A serious neck injury from a dive off the dock of a Fort Myers Airbnb on the Caloosahatchee River, on a failure to warn of shallow, murky water.
Confidential settlement - Confidential The amount is sealed by the settlement itself
Apartment complex shooting
A young client was shot during a violent crime at a Miami-Dade apartment complex.
Confidential settlement - Confidential The amount is sealed by the settlement itself
Fatal motorcycle crash
Law enforcement first put fault for this fatal Miami-Dade motorcycle crash on the rider who died.
Confidential settlement - Not published Capped by sovereign immunity, so the figure is not published
Cyclist killed by a county transit bus
A twenty-year-old was riding his bike through a Plantation crosswalk on an illuminated walk signal when a Broward County Transit bus turned right on red into him and killed him.
Broward County wrongful death settlement 2 reports → - $250,000
E-bike accident
Our client was riding his e-bike to work along North Federal Highway in Boca Raton when an SUV turned right into a parking lot across his path, knocking him off the bike and tearing his shoulder badly enough to need surgery.
Full policy limits settlement - $100,000
Car accident, fault reversed
A client was seriously hurt making a U-turn in Fort Lauderdale, and the responding officers assigned fault for a right-of-way violation.
Broward County policy limits settlement - $95,000
Hotel lobby slip and fall
Our client was leaving a restaurant through the lobby of the Westin Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort when she slipped on a freshly mopped floor and fractured her ankle.
Settlement after suit was filed - $5,400,000
Work truck rollover, wrongful death
Our client was a passenger in a work truck on a private dirt road owned by the company.
Settlement on the eve of trial - $3,850,000
Pedestrian accident
Settlement
Settlement
These results do not predict the outcome of any other case. Every claim turns on its own facts, its own evidence and the insurance actually available, and no lawyer can promise a result. Figures shown are gross recoveries before attorney fees, costs and medical liens are deducted.
Not just our word for it
When these cases made the news
A figure on a law firm's own website is a claim. The reports below were published by news organizations with no stake in the outcome, at the time these cases were decided. Each one opens on the outlet's own site.
$3.5 million Funeral home negligence 6 reports
- Article WPTV West Palm Beach wptv.com
- Article NBC 6 South Florida nbcmiami.com
- Article Courthouse News Service courthousenews.com
- Article NBC 6 South Florida “Family says ashes came from wrong person” nbcmiami.com
- Video WPTV “State shuts down Belle Glade funeral home” youtube.com
- Video WPTV “Belle Glade funeral home shut down”, including Brett Yonon addressing the jury youtube.com
$1.38 million Propane explosion 1 report
$500,000 Funeral home body mix-up 1 report
$300,000 Restaurant slip and fall 1 report
Not published Cyclist killed by a county transit bus 2 reports
The people who did it
The lawyers who stood up in these cases
These are the lawyers who tried the matters above, including the funeral home verdict and the out-of-code stairwell wrongful death. One of them would handle your case, and you will know which from the first conversation.
Richard P. Pravato
Founding & Managing Attorney
Board Certified in Civil Trial Law · Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
Since 1996 he has represented injured people and nobody else. He has held his board certification since 2004, which fewer than one percent of Florida lawyers do.
Read profile →
Brett J. Yonon
Senior Trial Attorney
Florida Super Lawyers 2024, 2025 · Rising Stars 2022
He spent years defending insurers before moving to represent injured people. He handles the firm’s catastrophic injury, wrongful death, trucking and funeral home cases.
Read profile →
Brian H. Malamud
Senior Trial Attorney
More than 25 years on the Wolf & Pravato trial team
He has handled car accidents, slip and fall claims, dog attacks and general negligence here for more than twenty-five years. His degree is in psychology, from the University of Florida.
Read profile →
Alazay Ventura-Coffey
Trial Attorney
Broward County Trial Lawyers Association · Admitted 2022
On his first day as a sworn attorney he co-chaired a Broward County jury trial that returned $1,387,060.58. He handles car accidents, slip and fall claims and general negligence.
Read profile → Before you compare us to anyone else
Why the number on a page is never the number on your case
Every firm advertises its biggest figures, and none of them tells you the part that decides yours. Three things move the value of a claim far more than anything on this page, and the third one ends more cases than the other two together.
- 1
How badly you were hurt, and for how long
Not what the treatment cost. What is left afterward, established by the doctors who actually treated you rather than by a letter from anybody's lawyer.
- 2
How clear it is that somebody else caused it
Fault is divided in Florida, and since March 2023 anybody found more than half responsible recovers nothing. That percentage is argued with evidence, which is why we go and get it in the first week.
- 3
How much insurance actually exists to pay it
Florida does not require a driver to carry any coverage for injuring you. A catastrophic injury caused by an uninsured driver can be worth only what your own policy pays, and finding every policy that might respond is the first real work on any case. Send us your declarations page and we will read it for you at no cost.
These figures are gross, not net
Attorney fees, case costs and any medical liens come out of a recovery before a client receives anything, and Florida caps contingency fees on a sliding scale set by the Bar. We show you those numbers on your own case, in writing, before you sign anything.
Where to go next
What those clients said afterward
Tell us what happened
A lawyer will listen, tell you what Florida law does with those facts, and be straight with you about whether it is worth bringing. If it is not, we will say so.