Personal Injury & Wrongful Death
You probably never even saw it coming. We know how to help you pick up the pieces.
Dozier, Miller, Pollard & Murphy, LLP has a well-earned reputation for successfully representing people who have been injured by someone else’s negligence, carelessness, or wrongful conduct. If you have been injured or lost a loved one. DMPM can help you obtain full and fair compensation.
Our firm provides skilled and knowledgeable representation to clients in all personal injury and wrongful death matters, with particular experience in catastrophic injuries arising out of aviation accidents, automobile and trucking accidents and medical malpractice.
We have the knowledge, skill, and experience to investigate these often-complex cases, negotiate with insurance companies and other at-fault parties and obtain full compensation for clients.
Proven Experience & Results
The following is a partial list of some of the results the law firm has achieved for its clients over the years. This list does not constitute a promise or guarantee of any particular result in any particular case. Each case was handled and resolved on its own merit, and the outcome of any particular case cannot be predicted by these results. Unless otherwise specified, each of the following cases was contested on liability and damages, the opposing parties were represented, the matters involved complex legal and/or factual issues, and the law firm was successful in collecting the amounts stated:
Automobile & Trucking Accidents
Every year thousands of people are seriously injured or killed in motor vehicle accidents on North Carolina’s roads. Victims of automobile accidents need experienced representation in order to protect their rights and obtain just compensation. Dozier, Miller, Pollard & Murphy, LLP has a track record of success representing injured people and the families of those killed.
- $2.12 million recovery for the wrongful death of a wife and mother in a trucking accident in South Carolina (Mecklenburg County 2002)
- $1.1 million recovery for a retired businessman for aggravation of a preexisting knee injury in an automobile accident in North Carolina (Mecklenburg County 2006)
- $925 thousand recovery for an automobile accident victim with severe ankle injuries in North Carolina (Bumcombe County 1984)
- $300 thousand verdict for an automobile accident victim with soft tissue injury (at the time, April 1992, believed to be largest jury verdict in North Carolina for a soft tissue injury treated by chiropractic care) (Mecklenburg County 1992)
Medical Malpractice
Reliable studies estimate that medical malpractice is responsible for thousands of deaths in the United States each year, and even more people are seriously and permanently injured as a result of malpractice by a doctor, hospital or other medical professional. Dozier, Miller, Pollard & Murphy, LLP has a record of success representing injured people and the families of those injured by medical malpractice in North Carolina and across the Country.
- $1.5 million recovery for failure to diagnose and treat melanoma in North Carolina (Mecklenburg County 2003)
- $750 thousand recovery for the wrongful death of a retired smoker for failure to diagnose and treat small cell lung cancer in South Carolina (Lancaster County, South Carolina 2005)
- Confidential settlement for the wrongful death of an infant for the failure of a hospital nurse to connect the child to an A/B monitor in North Carolina (Mecklenburg County 1988)
- $590 thousand recovery for the wrongful death of retired smoker for failure to diagnose and treat non small cell lung cancer in North Carolina (Mecklenburg County 2004)
- Confidential settlement for the misdiagnosis of breast cancer resulting in unnecessary surgery in North Carolina (Mecklenburg County 2004)
- Confidential settlement for the wrongful death of a South Carolina husband and father for failure to diagnose and treat Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (Horry County, South Carolina 1999)
Contact Dozier, Miller, Pollard & Murphy, LLP’s Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Counsel.
