Florida Car Accident Lawyer - Auto Injury Attorney

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Auto Injury Compensation

If you or a loved one has been hurt in a car accident and are now thinking about whether to call an attorney, the answer is “yes!”

Florida has complex personal injury laws regarding car accidents, and your attorney will help you find out what you're really owed.

Even when it seems like the other driver was clearly at fault, accident injury victims can find themselves in a serious dispute over fast & fair compensation.

They don't realize what they are up against until it's too late.

Don't accept the insurance co's pitiful settlement offer until you've reviewed it with our lawyers at Lawsuit Legal - to learn what compensation you are really entitled to recover.

Immediately after a serious car accident, you first need to ensure your safety and that of your loved ones.

In the meantime, let's discuss how your Florida car accident lawyers can help maximize your personal injury claim after an auto accident.

 

Auto Injury Compensation in Florida

Florida is a no-fault state with complex rules for recovery of potential damages, each personal injury claim is unique:

• Medical Costs - This includes emergency medical treatment, ongoing treatment coss, and all medical bills resulting from required healthcare resulting from the crash.
• Significant Property Damage - This can include property damage to vehicles, cargo, or surrounding property.
• Pain and Suffering - Florida law allows for the recovery of pain and suffering damages for wrecks involving plaintiffs who sustain significant and permanent loss of bodily function, permanent injuries, disfigurement or death.
• Lost Wages and Future Income - PIP in Florida allows for up to 60% of lost earning capacity included in economic damages.
• Long-term Injury and Disability - Financial consideration for injuries resulting in life-long impact.
• Loss of Consortium - Compensation consideration for relationship impacts including the death of a loved one or loss of fellowship resulting from injuries sustained.
• Disfigurement - Recovery of disfigurement damages for burns, severe scarring, limb loss, subject to the pain and suffering criteria in Florida law.
• Emotional Distress - The Florida impact rule allows for damages in the case the victim can prove a physical impact for their emotional injuries.

 

Auto accidents can be especially devastating for victims and result in serious personal injury along with pain and suffering. After an accident when you've been hurt, especially in the aftermath of a serious injury, the insurance companies WILL try to take advantage. Your lawyer will help you assess the full extent of your losses that can count as recoverable damages to ensure you don't settle for less than you deserve. In consideration for your personal injuries and resulting medical treatment cost - you deserve the best possible outcome.

The cost of medical treatment adds up fast. This includes scuffs and bruises, perhaps a few cuts to more serious injuries including broken bones, organ damage, amputations, traumatic brain injury, or even worse, fatalities. After an accident, when you or a loved one has been hurt, especially immediately following the event of a serious injury, the insurance companies will try to take advantage to limit what they pay.

Economic damages and non-economic damages should consider all applicable paths to financial recovery which meet the legal standard.

 

Do not make a statement to the insurance company before speaking with an attorney

 

Florida Locations Served

Florida is a large state, ranging from Key West and evergalades in South Florida to the top of the pan handle in the north. It includes the heavily trafficked highways, the I-95, I-595, I-75, I-275, I-4, I-10, I-295, and I-110 among other intrastate highways. Our Florida licensed injury lawyers represent car accident victims across the state including but not limited to:

• Cities: Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Hialeah, Port St. Lucie, Tallahassee, Cape Coral, Fort Lauderdale, Davie, Plantation, Gainesville, Coral Springs, Pembroke Pines, Homestead, West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Fort Myers, Key West, Homestead, Jupiter, among others..
• Counties: Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach County, Hillsborough, Orange County, Duval County, Pinellas County, Lee County, Brevard, Polk, Volusia, Sarasota, Manatee, Monroe, Leon, Collier, etc...
• Zip Codes: 34787, 33411, 34953, 33024, 33311, 32210, 32244, 33647, 33025, 33012, 32828, 32822, 32837, 33157, 33186, 33033, 33301, among many others...

While dense population centers like Miami or Jacksonville make vehicle accidents a more common occurrence, collisions on the interstate highway in the state can be especially devastating because of the high speeds along with the regular semi-truck and commercial vehicle traffic.

 

 

What to do Immediately After a Crash

Assess your Health Situation

• Are you bleeding? Check yourself and assess your immediate condition. Are you sore, nauseaus, bruised, stiff, or dizzy? Are there obvious injuries, lacerations or serious wounds that need immediate attention? If you can, turn on your emergency blinkers, and be careful if you are going to leave the vehicle.

Gather Information

• While waiting for the police and emergency services, if you are capable and it can be safely done, take photos of what happened to document the scene of the collision.

Consult Our Attorneys

• Before speaking with the insurance company, speak with a personal injury attorney. The insurers often take advantage of the confusion and overwhelm following a serious accident to push for statements that they will use against you.

 

Reasons to Get an Attorney after a Car Accident

We know the stress you are under after a wreck. That’s why our auto injury attorneys work hard to take the legal burdens off your shoulders so you can focus on recovery during this time. Fast & fair compensation depends on several key factors, including the severity of the wreck, who was at fault, and how complicated the case is. Your lawyer will help you assess the full extent of your losses that can count as recovered damages to ensure you don't settle for less than you deserve. In consideration for your personal injuries and resulting medical treatment cost - you deserve maximum compensation.

You can count on insurers fighting to pay as little as possible. Your lawyer will help with the value assessment of your true losses, so you don't settle for less than you deserve. Your attorneys will handle communications with the insurers, can help with medical bills, and will fight to maximize what your injury claim is worth. Costs and expenses of representation are treated similarly — no fees unless we win.

Most Common Accident Types Handled

The city streets and highways of Florida result in a number of common motor vehicle accident fact patterns. Generally, high speeds result in more serious injury.

We regularly review injury claims from Florida residents resulting from the following common collision types:

Lane Changing Accidents:    Vehicles can change lanes quickly, without looking, or illegally, often at high speeds resulting in the need to swerve, hit guardrails, and collide with other drivers or pedestrians.

Head-on Collisions:    The violent impact when motor vehicles hit each other head-on. Catastrophic injuries and fatalities are often a result of the crushing forces of impact.

Stop Sign Accidents:    Righ-of-way violations leading to drivers hitting another vehicle when crossing an intersection or motorists being hit when stopped at a stop sign. These intersections pose several hazards and regularly result in injury causing wrecks.

Side Impact / Side Swipe:    Two vehicles traveling in the same direction when one driver swerves over to collide with the other car.

Rear End Accidents / Rear Ended:    Getting hit from behind by another vehicle. Damage to the neck, whiplash injury, and head trauma are common for victims unprepared for the whipping violence of unexpectedly being rear-ended.

High-Speed Impacts:    Accidents involving speeds over 40 mph. More commonly encountered on interstate highways. A failure to control speed or reckless speeds can result in very serious injuries for those involved in a wreck.

Rollover Accidents:    Vehicles, especially tractor-trailers, semi-trucks and SUVs, flip end over end or side to side. We see passenger ejections from vehicles when the seat belt isn't fastened, serious injury, and death can result.

 

 

The majority of auto accidents resulting in catastrophic injury are a result of: excessive speed and human error.

 

 

What Makes a Strong Car Accident Injury Claim In Florida?

When there is clear liability, serious personal injury or significant damage, along with clear and abundant supporting evidence you likely have a strong case.

Documentation and evidence are also vital to support what happened as well as value assessments when seeking damages.

Medical records, police reports, eye witness testimony, and vehicle black box data can help substantiate any claims and strengthen the case for compensation.

How Much Does an Florida Auto Accident Lawyer Cost?  We know that as a car accident victim, you deserve to RECEIVE money, not PAY money out-of-pocket. The law firm handles everything from investigation to negotiation. When we secure a favorable settlement or verdict, you pay a percentage of the money won for you. We are happy to discuss our fees during your FREE NO OBLIGATION consultation.

How much will I receive for my car accident settlement?  Every client will have different costs and losses. All damages that meet the legal standard in Florida, should be considered in your injury claim. Whether $1,000 or $10 million, you should never have to cover your own costs. If someone else caused your crash, you deserve to receive compensation from the liable party.