A special message to those injured by drunk drivers

   Associates and Bruce L. Scheiner, Attorneys for the Injured, has spent decades working to mend the tragedy and devastation drunk drivers leave in their wake.

   Hundreds of people have turned to us after such unspeakable tragedies – shattered lives and families who come through our doors while enduring the death or serious injury of parents, children and siblings.

   Last year, 1,099 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes in Florida – making drinking and driving a cause of about one-third of the state’s 3,365 road deaths. Another 10,439 motorists were injured by alcohol-related crashes on Florida roads.

   The number of area crashes caused by alcohol remained staggering in 2006: 654 in Lee County; 372 in Collier; 211 in Charlotte; 457 in Sarasota.

   Often the drunk driver faces significant criminal punishment for causing the accident. And those who have been victimized struggle to understand the long and complicated criminal process as well as the legal, financial, medical, emotional and physical demands of recovering from such accidents while seeking adequate compensation for their injuries.

   At Associates and Bruce L. Scheiner, we bring almost 40 years of experience to work for you. We have the experience necessary to work closely with law enforcement and the prosecutor’s office to keep you aware of the many steps involved in the complex criminal and civil prosecution of such offenders.

   Because living through these horrific cases with our clients has propelled fighting this senseless crime to the top of the firm’s community agenda:

• Associates and Bruce L. Scheiner is a key supporter of Mother’s Against Drunk Driving in Southwest Florida, having worked closely with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office to restart a local chapter in 2008-09.
• The firm pays for more than 20 Don’t Drink and Drive billboards that are posted on main roads throughout Southwest Florida over the Christmas and New Year’s Holiday.
• The firm often supports the efforts of local law enforcement by bringing catered meals to officers staffing weekend sobriety checkpoints throughout Southwest Florida.
• Associates and Bruce L. Scheiner works with the media and other advocacy groups to increase awareness of the tragedy endured by individual families and the continuing carnage caused by drunk driving.

   At Associates and Bruce L. Scheiner, drunk driving is not a socially acceptable risk taken by a dwindling few because we represent hundreds of clients who have been seriously injured or killed by the senseless act of someone who climbed behind the wheel after having too much to drink.

   Bruce L. Scheiner and his associate attorneys can bring a team of about 100 paralegals, nurses, investigators, retired police officers, former insurance executives and journalists to work on your case.

   If you or someone you love has been seriously injured or killed by a drunk driver, we urge you to call our firm today for a free appointment to discuss your case at any of our offices in Fort Myers, Naples, Cape Coral, Port Charlotte, and Sebring.

   We will even arrange to come to your home or hospital room to see if we can help because we are honored to help and honored that you thought of our firm.

   Unless we recover you money, you won’t pay us a dime. Because at Associates and Bruce L. Scheiner, Attorneys for the Injured, you pay us nothing unless we win.