The Next Step

Hi,I'm not sure who I have told, and who I haven't, so I'm just doing a mass e-mail to cover off what has gone on with dad and my moms' accident.

In my last posting I let you know that the driver walked away from court scot-free. While this is a horrible thing, that he should see no fine, charge or even a slap on the wrist for hitting a pedestrian at a crosswalk, the good outcome of this is that it finally made dad realize that the US legal system is not something he can take on by himself... so we finally got a lawyer involved.

My "Canadian" side of my brain didn't want to start up with a lawyer any more than my dad did, but the "US" side knew that this was a necessity and it was just a matter of time until my dad developed the same mentality.  My friend in Fort Myers, Candace, just happened to swim regularly with a lawyer who specialized in accidental injury cases. Dad tried chasing a couple of other legal firms and got either no response to his calls or he was pawned off to a paralegal and never did hear from a lawyer about this case. The lawyer Candace recommended, Greg Bosseler, called me right back when I sent him an e-mail at 8:00pm and the next morning he was on the phone with dad at 9am, and at the condo talking face to face with dad by noon. I like this man, he takes action and moves! Dad really liked him too, even if he says he's "a little too tall"... I haven't met him but dad says he's about 6'4" and in our family that is a really tall person... not so much in the NBA. It's all relative. We have a lawyer.

Greg is now working on the case. I think his actions will involve suing the whole world but I don't care at this point. He plans to take on the driver in civil court, the insurance company to make sure they pay up big time, Marco Island for not having proper working traffic lights at the crosswalk (which is the reason the judge didn't hold the driver accountable for hitting mom, the lights weren't working? Really? What happened to the other 3 cars that stopped, the seven witnesses and the fact that it's still against the law to hit a pedestrian at a crosswalk for any reason?)... I'm not sure who else he's going to go after, but I hope it becomes a three-ring circus. I have offered to do a media blitz if necessary... I've always wanted to meet Barbara Walters... okay, maybe this isn't that important. What I did find interesting is how many people want to know who paid off the judge or did the driver play golf with him. Now THAT would make national news, well, at least Florida state coverage. If Honey-Boo-Boo can have a TV reality show I think we could, at least, make the nightly news.....

The down side of this is that it could takes a very long time to see the end of the story. We'll see how efficient Greg can be, but I feel much better knowing someone with experience and a law degree is taking action for dad. Closure is a nice thing to own.

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