A decade of injury and malpractice work. Below is a sample, with the facts of each case stated plainly.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case is different and results depend on the specific facts and law involved.
These are matters I handled personally, across motor vehicle, commercial vehicle, premises, nursing home and medical malpractice work. Most were resolved in New Jersey, where I practiced for a decade before moving to Savannah and where I remain admitted. The work is the same on either end of I-95.
Gonzalez v. Foley.
* All results listed were obtained by Thomas F. Rinaldi while practising at prior firms, in a number of instances as co-counsel or as second chair. They were not obtained by Hamilton Padgett Rinaldi, LLP, which was formed in October 2026. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case is different and results depend on the specific facts and law involved.
No lawsuit was filed in that case. The carrier's opening position was seventy-five thousand dollars and it resolved for eight hundred and ten.
That gap is not a negotiating trick. It is what happens when the demand package is built properly the first time, with the medicine documented, the wage loss proven, and the carrier shown exactly what a jury would be shown.
Most cases do not need a lawsuit. They need a file the other side cannot argue with.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. They are a record of what happened in particular cases with particular facts, particular injuries, particular insurance coverage and particular defendants.
Your case is not those cases. The value of any claim depends on liability, on the severity and permanence of the injury, on available coverage, on the venue, and on a dozen things that will not be knowable on the first phone call.
Any lawyer who quotes you a number before reviewing your records is guessing. I would rather tell you honestly that I do not know yet.