Florida Personal Injury Laws

Key Information On Car Accident Cases

Depending on the severity of your injuries, it’s important that either you or family members, if you’ve been severely or catastrophically injured, document as much as possible. Oftentimes we as lawyers are at a disadvantage if we don’t get a case until many months down the road, because we have lost some crucial time between the date of the crash and the time that we’re involved in the case. Oftentimes the insurance company for the at fault driver or the at fault truck driver will be on the scene right away, documenting what occurred.

So it’s important that you document not only what happened at the scene, document witnesses that may have observed what happened, but also documenting your injuries with photographs or videos of you in the hospital or of your injuries so that the evidence can be documented and maintained and safeguarded to be used later in the claims handling process.

Pedestrian Injured By Motor Vehicle

As a pedestrian who’s been injured by a motor vehicle,  it’s very important that you contact a reputable law firm that handles those types of cases, and you want to do that sooner rather than later. Hopefully you have notified the police so that the accident itself is documented. If you have required medical treatment as a result of your injuries, you want to document the injuries through photographs and video taken by family members, so that that evidence can be preserved. But you want an attorney on board quickly that can investigate the accident, because you as a pedestrian, are almost always going to be blamed for your own injuries. Were you crossing at the right crossing point? Were you j-walking? Were you crossing the road against a pedestrian crossing signal? You want an attorney to be able to investigate the accident and reconstruct the accident to determine exactly who was at fault.

Catastrophic Injury Cases

There are many capable trial attorneys in the state of Florida. But when you’ve been involved in a catastrophic injury accident, you want to make sure you have an attorney that will fight for you and that will go to trial if necessary. Often times in catastrophic injury cases, because the stakes are higher, because the damages are significant, and insurance companies know that, they will vigorously fight those cases on liability in an attempt to have defenses where fault cannot be determined, or where they will blame the injured victim. You want an attorney that is willing to go to trial, that has been to trial, and that has gotten good results in catastrophic injury cases.

Personal Injury Lawyers in Orlando

If you’re looking for an attorney to handle your car accident case, why should you choose Colling Gilbert Wright & Carter? Well, we’re experienced trial lawyers. We’ve been around for 30 years. We’ve been handling nothing but personal injury claims in that period of time. So give me a call. I’m Ron Gilbert with Colling Gilbert Wright & Carter. 1-800-49-LEGAL.

By: Ron Gilbert

Call Police Immediately After Being In A Motorcycle Accident

It is imperative that you notify the police if you’d been involved in a motorcycle accident cases. Many times, unfortunately, there are no witnesses to a motorcycle accident case, and often times, investigators, lawyers, the only way they can piece together what happened, in an attempt to determine who is at fault, is by the scene of the accident being documented as there are skid marks or gouge marks in the road. Where was their debris in the road? Where did the individuals in the vehicles end up at final rest? It’s crucial in reconstructing an accident, specially a motorcycle accident case, that police are notified and are involved so that the scene and the evidence can be properly documented, so that later on your lawyers can build your case and pursue your case without having to lost that critical evidence that can sometimes not exists specially in cases where there’s no witnesses to the accident.

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.

If you live in Florida but you’re injured in a car accident in another state, who do you hire?

You probably should hire a Florida attorney and let them choose your out-of-state attorney. I’m Mel Wright. I’m a partner at Calling, Gilbert, Wright, and Carter. Call us at 1-800-49-LEGAL.

By: Mel Wright

If you’re looking for an attorney to handle your car accident case, why should you choose Colling Gilbert Wright & Carter?

Well, we’re experienced trial lawyers. We’ve been around for 30 years. We’ve been handling nothing but personal injury claims in that period of time. So give me a call. I’m Ron Gilbert with Colling Gilbert Wright & Carter. 1-800-49-LEGAL.

By: Ron Gilbert

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