Florida Personal Injury Laws

What factors should you consider when hiring a car accident attorney in Florida?

You should consider mainly their experience level. Make sure you hire an attorney who’s experienced in handling auto accidents in Florida. You don’t want to hire a bankruptcy attorney or a probate attorney to handle your car accident case. We get questions like this all the time. Call us at Colling Gilbert Wright and Carter, 1800-49 LEGAL.

By: Mel Wright

Car Accident Injury Compensation

Hi. I’m Julia McGrath, an attorney here at the Dolman Law Group. Often times clients ask me can I be compensated or can I get money from my pain and suffering that I’ve sustained as a result of my motor vehicle collision? In order to get money for pain and suffering damages, the law actually tells us in Florida what we need to prove. And what we need to prove is that you’ve suffered a permanent injury.

What is Considered a Permanent Injury?

The law also spells out for us what can be considered a permanent injury. So that’s loss of use of an important bodily function, loss of a limb, disfigurement other than scarring, or any other permanent injury within a degree of medical certainty. For more information, contact me, Julia McGrath here at the Dolman Law Group. Thanks again for visiting our YouTube channel. I greatly appreciate your time, look forward to seeing you soon, and click on our button here to subscribe to our channel. Thank you.

By: Julia McGrath

Witnesses To A 18 Wheeler Accident

In any big rig tractor trailer truck accident case, witnesses are helpful and witnesses are usually necessary. We’re referring here to eye witnesses who actually saw something just before, or during, or after the wreck, and we’re talking about experts who come on the scene including law enforcement officers and paramedics. But in addition, key witnesses will be the people involved in the two vehicles, and it’s important to obtain the statements of those people – the drivers, the passengers – as quickly as possible. Witnesses play a key role in each and every case.

Punitive Damages, Auto Accident

If you have been injured in an accident, you’re entitled under certain circumstances to be compensated for your losses. That’s called compensatory damages. Punitive damages, also called exemplary damages, are only allowable in Florida when there has been not just gross negligence but an extraordinary, wrongful level of conduct, so much so that when people look at it, they would say it is almost intentional in terms of the conduct that set things in motion. An example would be the conduct of someone deciding to drink, knowing that he is later going to get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. Gross negligence is the key. It is also referred to as willful or wanton conduct.

Construction Site Injury

It depends on the situation, but if you’ve been injured on a construction site or at the workplace you want to contact an attorney to first assess whether or not you have a viable worker’s compensation claim. Oftentimes if you do not have worker’s compensation insurance, or if you’re injured on a construction site and there was reckless or willful conduct on the part of the employer, you may have a viable third party negligence claim against your employer.

Oftentimes, however, individuals injured on a construction site they just think that they do not have a case and they never contact an attorney until it’s too late and the statute of limitations has already been expired. But if you’ve suffered a catastrophic workplace injury – especially on a construction site – you want to talk to a reputable law firm to assess whether or not you have a viable case against your employer.

2 Types of Damages in Wrongful Death Lawsuit in Orlando

The Wrongful Death Lawsuit in the state of Florida has two basic types of damages: Economic Damages and Non-Economic Damages.

Economic Damages

Economic  Damages are those damages that we can put on the board – lost wages, funeral, medical bills, that type of thing.

Non- Economic Damages

Non-Economic Damages would be pain and suffering, impairment to the quality of life – things of an intangible nature. If you’ve lost a loved one due to a wrongful death, call Colling Gilbert Wright & Carter: 1-800-49-LEGAL.

By: Ron Gilbert

Suing A Property Owner

You can sue the owner of the property where you were injured if you can prove legal responsibility on the part of that owner. You not only have to prove some level of fault, or carelessness, or neglect by that owner; you have to show that the owner is legally responsible to you as someone who is on the property, and either had a right to be on the property or were they had a duty to see to it that you were not injured under a multitude of circumstances.

By: Matt Dolman

Determining Damages For A Wrongful Death

damages in any wrongful death case where you have an 18-wheeler responsible for causing that death are going to be determined solely at the judgment and discretion of the jury. The judge, in any given case, is going to give the members of the jury a brief explanation of the law, and the jury will determine what the damages are for such things as: final medical expenses and funeral expenses, the mental pain and anguish of any surviving person – which would be like a surviving child, if a parent were killed, or perhaps a surviving spouse. if the other spouse had been killed, then you have damages for what are called Loss of Net Accumulations, and the jury makes that decision based on the evidence each juror hears during the trial itself.