Florida Personal Injury Laws

Insurance Claims

Typically, you want an attorney to help protect your rights and help walk you through the handling of your claim. A lot of times, at the beginning, insurance companies, insurance adjusters, will act as if they’re trying to be friendly and trying to be helpful. But, we all know that insurance companies, in certain situations, have a tendency to try and take advantage of victims in the claims handling process. It’s important to have an attorney that knows how to deal with insurance adjusters, that knows how to deal with insurance companies in the claims process and have an attorney that can adequately and properly protect your rights.

Orlando Personal Injury Case Recovery

If you have a personal injury accident case in Florida, there are different types of damages that you’re entitled to, but generally speaking, you’re entitled to past damages and future damages. The past damages would include things like medical bills, and economic losses, lost earning capacity, missing time from work – things like that. You’re also entitled to future damages. If you have a permanent injury or a bad injury, you’re entitled to recovery medical bills that you may need in the future. You’re also entitled to recover what’s called lost earning capacity, or the ability to earn money in the future. You’re also entitled to recover future pain and suffering. If you have questions about that type of case, call me – Nathan Carter at Colling Gilbert Wright & Carter, 1-800-49-LEGAL.

By: Nathan Carter

What Is A Deposition

In any case in litigation, the parties are permitted to take depositions of witnesses, including depositions of the parties in the case. A deposition is basically an interview or a sworn statement, where the attorney for one side sits down at a conference room table and questions the witness or the other party under oath to obtain information and answers about the case.

Settle Out Of The Court Room

In most personal injury case, your attorney is going to make an effort to try to settle or resolve your case with the other side, usually an insurance company, before filing a lawsuit and taking the case to court. That doesn’t always happen, and it doesn’t always succeed. If it does not succeed, your attorney then has to file a suit and put the case into litigation, then there are generally ongoing negotiations and opportunities along the way to try to settle the case before it gets to trial. Just one primary example is that every judge in the floor is going to order your case to mediation before trial, and that’s usually a more formal settlement conference providing the parties with an opportunity to try to settle your case before it actually gets to trial.

You’re involved in a car accident in Florida. How do you pay for your lawyer?

If you hire Colling, Gilbert, Wright, & Carter, you pay us nothing unless we recover money for you. With other questions call us at 1-800-49-LEGAL at Colling, Gilbert, Wright, & Carter.

By: Mel Wright

Contingency Fees

In Florida, attorneys are permitted to represent you as consumers on a contingent fee basis. Oftentimes, when you’ve been involved in a catastrophic injury case or accident or situation, those cases will take years sometimes to travel through the litigation process. If you’ve suffered a catastrophic injury and you have mounting medical bills and are unable to work, a contingent fee representation system such as the one we have in Florida permits you and your attorneys to match the resources of the insurance industry or the trucking industry to help you along in your catastrophic injury case. All that means is you don’t pay your attorney fees until the end of the case, and only pay them if there’s been a recovery in the case. The attorneys get a percentage of that recovery for attorney fees. It also allows your attorneys to advance the costs of your case, and then only recoup those costs at the end of the case if there’s been a successful recovery on your behalf.

Partial Fault In A Car Accident

Yes, you can in the State of Florida. There are some states where if you’re involved in an automobile accident and you’re found to even be a small percentage at fault, you are completely barred or precluded from recovery even though the other driver may have also been at fault. Florida, however, is a pure comparative negligence state. So, if there is a determination that both both drivers are at fault, regardless of the percentage, you are still permitted in Florida to recover for your damages even if you are determined to be at fault or partially at fault. So, you want to hire a lawyer that is reputable in handling claims to assess comparative fault issues in an automobile accident case.

Insurance Company Requests A Recorded Statement

If you’ve been injured in an accident, you do not have to give a recorded statement to the other driver’s insurance company. You may have to give a recorded statement to a representative of your own insurance company, and that is totally dependent upon the wording or the language in your own insurance policy.

Experienced Orlando Medical Malpractice Lawyers

At Colling Gilbert Wright & Carter we’ve handled literally hundreds of malpractice cases all across the state of Florida and probably every county in Florida. A lot of firms in Florida will advertise that they handle medical malpractice cases. But once you go meet with the lawyer, they’ll refer your case to another lawyer. We personally handle the cases. We have some of the top experts in the country that we use in these cases. And we have the results, and success, and a proven track record in these types of cases. So if you are concerned or think you or a loved one may have a malpractice case, call us. We have a free consultation. We’ll talk to you, we’ll review the records, and we’ll have our experts look at it. So if you have a question, call me, Nathan Carter at Colling Gilbert Wright & Carter, 1800-49-LEGAL.

By: Nathan Carter