When noted scientist and financial analyst Miguel Octavio was hit by a car during an August bicycle ride in Boca Raton, Podhurst Orseck attorneys promised his wife they would do their best to get the case behind them by the holidays.
It was a tall order. Because Octavio was incapacitated, the attorneys could not access his medical records until a probate judge appointed his wife as his guardian. And with his recovery in the very early stages, it was hard to establish the amount of his future medical costs and lost earnings.
