Testimonials

A.A. (Baltimore City)

R.V. (Anne Arundel County)

My wife had to undergo major surgery and spent 4 weeks in the hospital while my son was being treated in the ICU. Never having been through anything like this before, all the staff at Miller & Zois were caring and considerate and held our hands and walked us through a very difficult process in taking on our case.

We started working with attorney Bob Fiore and his paralegal Sara who are wonderful people and some of the hardest working legal minds in the state of Maryland. Initially the insurance carrier denied liability and refused to pay anything at all, it was only Sara and Bob’s diligent investigations and hard work that led us to find out that thedriver had difficulty seeing. It was then that Bob and Sara kicked it into high gear and filed suit in Montgomery County Circuit Court, after hiring an expert witness(ophthalmologist) to review the driver’s medical records and to provide pre-trial testimony showing that the drivers vision impairment contributed to his inability to see my wife in the roadway. After all this the insurance carrier was still only willing to offer us $125,000. Bob knew the case was worth more and was willing to see it through to the end. After several sessions back and forth and Bob’s bulldog negotiation skills our final recovery was $375,000, more than enough to cover all the hospital bills and future surgeries my wife required.

If it weren’t for Miller & Zois and more specifically Bob Fiore and Sara, my wife and I would have been lost and buried in medical debt. They quite literally worked as hard as if not harder than the doctors to save our lives. I would recommend Miller & Zois to anyone with a similar situation, with Miller & Zois you are not just a case or a dollar amount. They truly care about their clients and go out of their way to make sure you get the best possible recovery for your case!

Terry & Marisa Waldron

Allstate attorney to a reporter after a Prince George’s County Jury awarded a Miller & Zois client $940,000. Allstate offered $150,000 to settle the claim.

John Selinger (New York personal injury lawyer)

Kathy Dixon, (Montgomery County) after $2.5 million verdict

Lawyers Weekly USA

C.W. (Baltimore City – Product Liability – $1,000,000 settlement)

R.W. (Baltimore City)

C.W. (Baltimore County)

S.M. (Baltimore City)

Aaron Johnson (Prince George’s County)

Michael Strahan Former All-Pro Defensive End, New York Giants

D.W. (Baltimore City)

S.T. (Howard County)

H.V. (Montgomery County)

C.H. (Baltimore City)

D.B. (Prince George’s County)

M.A. (Baltimore City)

R.B. (Baltimore City)

E.L. (Baltimore County)

T.G. (Howard County)

W.S. (Harford County)

Nchedo Idahosa (Howard County)

T.R. (Baltimore City)

E.B. (Anne Arundel County)

Gina Hallman (Prince George’s County)

Y.F.A (Prince Georges County)

Shannon Brown ($1 million jury verdict in Baltimore City)

C.B. (Baltimore City)

Elton Norman, Sliver Spring, Maryland lawyer (Montgomery County)

I must admit that prior to the trial, I had allowed a negative image to creep into my mind regarding personal injury attorneys. However, the trial and my subsequent post-trial conversation with Ms. Zois – initiated by me because I wanted to hear the rest of the story – gave me an entirely different perspective. I see now that she and her colleagues do important, honorable work on behalf of injured parties.

I also naively assumed that in cases like these, where the written records and facts of the case were so clear, injured parties need not engage attorneys and endure legal proceedings in order to secure a reasonable settlement from an insurance company. So this trial was educational for me, dispelling not one but two ill-informed misconceptions.

I have always had a hard time understanding the negative and disengaged attitudes many people seem to have toward jury service. We’re all busy – I’m a 24/7 single mother with three kids at home and a pretty challenging FT job, so I’m probably busier than most. But for goodness’ sakes – it’s only once every three years!

I view jury service as a privilege and a huge responsibility. As I sat in the courtroom, I thought about the amount of time, energy, and money that goes into preparing for, and conducting, a trial, and about what’s at stake, at least for the plaintiff, and about the fact that it’s all for the benefit of, and in the hands of, the six of us on the jury. That awareness sat in the back of my mind throughout the trial and through our deliberations.

I was very impressed by the case presentation offered by Ms. Zois and Mr. Gaston. Their opposing counsel was no slouch, and some jurors were initially swayed by his arguments. But Ms. Zois and Mr. Gaston had four clear advantages:

1. They were obviously thoroughly prepared, and left no doubt that they had mastered the facts of the case.
2. They had clearly thought carefully about how to present their case, which involved complicated medical information, to us on the jury in ways that were both simple and compelling.
3. Even when several key rulings from the bench went against them, and when the judge repeatedly displayed evidence of having arisen on the wrong side of the bed, they adjusted seamlessly, without missing a beat, and continued to present witnesses and evidence in a very persuasive fashion.
4. They came across as decent people. This might sound trivial, and maybe it should have been irrelevant, but some of us on the jury had to work to overcome our distaste for the opposing counsel. Ms. Zois and Mr. Gaston presented no such barrier.

One final note: After the trial ended, I contacted Ms. Zois and we discussed the case, mostly to satisfy my own interest in the story. She was warm, open, and genuine, not slick, packaged, and guarded, as I might have expected based on my ill-conceived stereotypes about personal injury attorneys. If I need to secure or recommend legal representation in a personal injury case, I’d call these folks.

SBM (Baltimore)