I’d like to share my story with everyone out there who has been in an accident
been confused hurt and in pain and waiting for good day to call a good lawyer.
I’m here because of Matt Powell my attorney.
I have been through hell and back and I’ll probably go again.
But thank god Matt was there to hold my hand.
I had an accident I was an inspector for Terminex.
And an 82-year-old hit me head on reverse.
Don’t ask me how
it just happened it was an accident.
And I thought I was fine for the first two days
the third day my broken neck already broken hurt so bad I didn’t know what to do.
So I call my chiropractor.
He got me in and then he noticed the hardware in my neck had been moved.
And my back was hurting as well.
and they had found some other things.
After several MRIs it was very frustrating first I went through Workmans comp
I thought they were on my side ended up being just puppets taking orders from the nurse via the Internet.
Once I found that out I fired my Workmen’s Comp doctor and pursued to find an attorney to work for me.
And went through a lawyer got no where with them.
Went through another lawyer got nowhere with them.
I ended up wanting to do it pro se or having to do it pro se
because I couldn’t find anybody with trial experience to help me.
Everybody else wanted easy cases and mine wasn’t easy at all.
Especially with workmans comp involved and made it triply hard for some reason
unknown to me.
So I was up one night couldn’t sleep as usual
and I saw “Ask the lawyer” and Matt Powell was the attorney answering the questions.
And I kept on praying to god please send me an attorney.
Please send
an attorney.
That will Help me get through this.
I don’t know anything about it.
And
I was up and saw Matt and he said that he could help
and I called him and he asked me a couple of questions, and I answered them over the phone.
He was up in tampa somewhere 50 miles from me
and he said that I will help you and just that over the phone I felt a relief.
and the next thing you knew he was at my door.
And
the first question I asked
do you believe in god?
And he looked at me funny,
I didn’t say hello
I said do you believe in God and he said yes
and I welcomed him into my home.
And from then
he heard my story he gathered my papers
I signed some papers and he began to work for me at the 11th hour.
This was in November of 2010.
No 2012.
November 2012 and my court date was to be February or March 2013.
So I needed him ASAP yesterday and he worked his biscuits off him and his whole entire team.
I just sat back and kept on praying,
that’s all I knew what to do and to go to the doctors
do what people told me to do to try and get better
All I wanted was to get better.
And make the pain go away.
But
I had been through a plethora doctors
and I’m
American Indian
and I’m trying stay as natural as possible
and they had me so drugged up I felt like a dang zombie.
So I started listening to my intuition I broke away from a lot of things..
no, lets go back to the case.
Matt’s people picked up the ball and did their due diligence
and did their work I was so frustrated until Matt came along.
And then the burdens were lifted off my shoulder
I felt I had competent representation.
And before that I just felt like these lawyers were talking to me with two tongues.
I didn’t like it at all.
And I wanted somebody I could believe in.
and
We went to trial,
Matt went to trial,
I couldn’t take it sitting in there eight hours a day.
It was just too much for me
and Matt handled it all
and now I’m sitting here today
a year and a half later after a jury awarded me moneys.
Iit took a lot of frustration over the year and a half waiting.
After a jury awards you money you assume that you’re get it immediately
oh there’s a lot of appellate courts that it’s got to go through
and they try and
jump through a bunch more holes
it’s just very aggravating but at the end of the day
just keep your faith and keep your prayers and Matt will see you through.
Matt’ll help you.
Don’t be afraid,
it’s going get better
and the darker the night is the brighter the day will be.
At the end of the day everything is going to be okay if your with Matt.
I will always refer him.
And I praise god to this day for him.
I still pray for him
and his team.
Im Danette Griffith from Sarasota florida,
this accident happened to me eight years ago to the day on the 6th
or on the 8th this month.
Today is the 6th right?
I Believe so.