Florida Personal Injury Laws

Insurance Company Recorded Statement

You are not required to give a recorded statement to the insurance company for the other driver or the other car involved in your car accident case. However, you typically will be required to give a recorded statement to your own insurance company if they ask for one. Due to the Cooperation Clause, it is typically included within every auto insurance policy. If you decide not to cooperate with your insurance company by giving the recorded statement, they can deny coverage. So, it’s important that you give a recorded statement if they requested. However, before giving any recorded statements, it’s important to make sure you talk to your attorney about it first.

Finding A Brain Injury Attorney

In a Florida brain injury case, in order to begin the litigation process it is essential that you obtain the services of a very competent, qualified, and experienced trial lawyer. You need to seek out and do the proper research and your due diligence in finding a lawyer who is experienced in handling brain injury cases. And by experience I mean not only a lawyer who has litigated and handled them for years, but a lawyer who has taken brain injury cases to verdict in front of judges and juries.

Usable Basis To Pursue A Case

If you’ve been injured as a result of the negligence of another person, your attorney’s going to look at several factors to determine whether or not you have a viable basis to pursue a case. Those factors include looking at the circumstances surrounding the accident. In other words, how were you hurt and what conduct by the other person cause your contributed to your accident, so that’s assessing liability. Do the other person have legal fault or legal liability for causing your injuries? In addition to that, the attorney’s going to look at the nature and extent of your damages, and that would include the nature of any physical or personal injuries you may have, and in monetary or financial losses you may have as a result of that, and the long-term consequences if any of those injuries. The other thing the attorney will have to carefully consider is whether or not and to what extent those injuries were caused by the accident. In other words, did you have any other events or pre-existing conditions that may have played a role in causing or contributing to your current injuries.

Fair Compensation in Orlando

If you’re hurt in an accident, you should know that getting a fair settlement in a timely fashion without having to go through a lengthy trial, could have a lot to do with the lawyer who represents you.

Hire a trial lawyer who is well-known by the insurance companies. I’m David Best of the Best Law Firm. I’ve been representing injury victims for over two decades. If you’re injured, call me and put the Best Firm to work for you.

By: David Best

Talk to Insurance Company Following Accident In Orlando

If you get called by an insurance company after your car accident in Florida, don’t talk to them until you’ve talked to an attorney. You could really hurt your case. With other questions, call us at 1800-49-LEGAL. Here at Colling Gilbert Wright & Carter, we’re here to help.

By: Mel Wright

Accident With A Big Rig Truck

When you are in an accident with a big rig tractor trailer truck and you consider what are those initial steps you need to take. Number one, get the best medical care you can get and get it fast. Number two, report the incident to your own insurance company. Number three, begin the research immediately to find, to locate and to obtain a very experienced and highly qualified big rig tractor trailer truck lawyer to represent you, so that he or she can navigate you through all of the steps you need to take over the next several days. And finally, preserve the evidence. Meaning, preserve the vehicle or vehicles, preserve anything you can. And if you can get photographs, or video, or have someone do that make sure you do that right away.

Orlando Wrongful Death Negligence Case

If your loved one has died due to the negligence of another person in the state of Florida, you may very well have a wrongful death claim. If you think that you have a wrongful death claim, if you have a loved one who has lost their life because of the negligence of another person, call Colling Gilbert Wright & Carter. 1-800-49-LEGAL.

By: Ron Gilbert

Orlando Premise Liability Case

A lot of our clients call us and want to talk about premises liability cases. Premises liability cases are when a person is hurt on a property, a store front, a shopping mall, somebody’s house. They trip, they fall, they break their ankle, they break their arm. Those types of cases are difficult to win in Florida. However, you do have a right to recover. The law says that if there was a dangerous or defective condition that the property owner knew about and didn’t repair or warn of, then their negligent and you have to recovery against.   A lot of times it’s important to document the defect as soon as possible. If you trip over a broken curb or a missing tile, have a friend or family member go back and take a photo of the defect because a lot of times those conditions get repaired before we get involved. So, it’s important to document those things right away.   If you have a question about a premises liability case, call me, Nathan Carter at Colling, Gilbert, Wright, and Carter, 1-800-49-LEGAL.

By: Nathan Carter

No Helmet On During A Motorcycle Accident

In Florida, motorcycle operators are not required to wear helmets if they’re over a certain age, so long as they wear eye protection and so long as they have medical payments, insurance coverage, on their motorcycle in case there is an injury. However, the failure to wear helmet can still be used against a motorcycle operator who’s suffered injuries in an accident especially if they’ve suffered a head injury. Because that can go towards their comparative fault, and it can be used against them to help reduce their damages in a case if they have failed to wear helmet and suffer injuries as a result of that.