“Well, my husband was a Marine. He went to Afghanistan twice and Iraq twice. After that he retired, and he had a meeting for work during the night. He was a pedestrian, and he was crossing the street after dinner, and he got hit by a police officer.
I have two children, and we had just moved to Norfolk. We had been in Norfolk just for two months and then this policeman killed my husband. My life went upside down, obviously. One of my family members found Rick Shapiro and Eric Washburn, the lawyers that took care of my case.
We wanted to find out what had happened to my husband, what was the cause of death. And Mr. Shapiro and Mr. Washburn helped me very much. They did a wonderful job helping me to find everything. The police didn’t want to offer my family anything, so my lawyers had to sue. My lawyers filed subpoenas, including to the police.
The policemen, they didn’t want to turn in any information. So after my lawyers sued, they found everything that charged the policemen. He got charged criminally and reckless driving. When my lawyers went through all the documents, they found out that he was going 25 over the speed limit. He was talking to his girlfriend. And obviously he was very distracted. And he hit my husband while he was crossing the street.
We had to go through a mediation and that didn’t work. The whole process was very stressful. But my lawyers did a very good job helping me go through everything and letting me understand everything very well. Eventually the police officer admitted that he killed my husband by reckless driving. We were very close to trial and fortunately my lawyers got a good settlement. That would save us lot of suffering going through trial. They did really good.
We’re very pleased with the outcome of everything. Mr. Shapiro and Mr. Washburn have been very wonderful lawyers. I actually. . . I’m going to miss them as just wonderful human beings because they really care. They have really cared from the very beginning about my family, about myself, my children. And they have always answered every call, every text. They have been there for us every step of the way. And I would recommend it to absolutely everybody.”
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