Florida Personal Injury Laws

Recovery From An Accident

If you’ve been injured in an accident in the state of Florida, you can recover or may be able to recover certain items relevant to damages. They’re generally broken down into two categories which are economic damages and non-economic damages. Economic damages include things such as your past and future medical bills, your past lost wages, your future lost or diminished earning capacity, and any out-of-pocket expenses you might have had, which would include things such as property damage to your car. The second category is non-economic damages and that includes things such as inconvenience, physical pain, mental anguish, and lost or diminished capacity for the enjoyment of life

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.

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

Experienced Brain Injury Attorney

How can you learn if the attorney you’re considering hiring has experienced handling brain injury lawsuits? The best and easiest way is just ask. Ask your attorney what experience he or she has handling brain injury lawsuits. Ask the attorney to provide you with information about other similar cases handled by his or her law firm. Ask about the results that that attorney in that law firm has obtained for other clients in brain injury related cases. They are very, very specialized cases, requiring the knowledge and expertise of an attorney with significant experience handling those types of cases so ask for the information you need to make an informed decision

Compensatory & Punitive Damages in Orlando Explained

In Florida we have compensatory damages and punitive damages. A lot of times you may have heard about punitive damages in the news and media reports. Punitive damages are to punish a defendant. Punitive damages are also very rare. You’re only entitled to those in certain types of cases. For instance, where a drunk driver hits you or the defendant’s conduct is so gross and negligent that the law says they should be punished. In most cases you’re only entitled to compensatory damages.  Compensatory damages are the damages to repay you for the loss you had from the accident. Lost medical bills, lost wages, and things of that nature. If you have a question about that call me, Nathan Carter at Calling, Gilbert, Wright, and Carter at 1-800-49-LEGAL.

By: Nathan Carter

Orlando Personal Injury Case Valuation

The value of a personal injury claim is just that, it’s personal. It varies with every case, and there are different factors that work into how we value what a case is worth. It might be your lost wages. It might be the effect on other people, other family members that depend on you. So, there are many different things that go into valuing a personal injury claim. If you have a question about your personal injury claim, call me. I’m Ron Gilbert with Colling, Gilbert, Wright & Carter, 1-800-49-LEGAL.

By: Ron Gilbert

Premises Liability Claims in Orlando

Here at Best & Anderson we handle a multitude of cases and kinds of cases. One of those is premises liability. It’s probably the one concept in the law that most people don’t know or understand. Clearly, if you were walking down the sidewalk and a pit bull dog runs out of somebody’s yard and bites you, you would probably figure you have a case – and you probably would. But the rest of the concept is a little more complicated.

Business Premises Liability

If you go to a business – let’s say a convenience store, a bar even, a restaurant, or even an apartment complex – and you’re the victim of a crime, and the criminal is not even related to the business, most people think that’s just a criminal matter for the police. But, in fact, it may be a matter that can be handled in civil court, and you may be entitled to damages for your injuries.

You hear about people that have been abducted and attacked sexually at a business, and no one would ordinarily think they’d have a case because the business owner didn’t cause that directly. But if the business allows a condition to exist, a danger zone to exist, and they knew or should have known that there’s a danger there and they do nothing to correct it, they can be liable. That’s called a foreseeable zone of risk. So, if reasonable people that own a business know of prior criminal activities or the likelihood of disorderly conduct, they have to correct it.

Investigation & Litigation

If someone gets injured even by a criminal unrelated to the business, they could have a case. And you really don’t know ahead of time whether the insurance company or the business has told the truth. You don’t know whether there’ve been prior incidents on that property or not.

Even if you file a claim, you can’t find out what happened without doing investigation. That’s what we do. We get crime grids and we find out how many crimes have been committed on their property. Then, if we can establish that they knew or should have known that there was a danger and someone got injured from that, you could have a good case. Thank you for listening to me.

By: David Best

What is medical malpractice?

Medical malpractice is the failure to use reasonable care. Now it can be negligence by a doctor or a nurse, or somebody else in the hospital – or out of the hospital. Any time the health care person, the healthcare professional, does something, or fails to do something that results in injury or perhaps even unfortunately death, that could be a medical malpractice claim. If you’d like to discuss the details with me, I’m Ron Gilbert with Colling, Gilbert, Wright & Carter, 1-800-49-LEGAL.

By: Ron Gilbert

Medical Bill Expenses

If you’ve been injured in an accident, there are a number of ways your medical bills will get paid. One is, of course, through your own insurance company. Another might be through some governmental agency or governmental aid program. Another might well be through what is commonly referred to as an LOP or letter of protection. The most important thing regarding the payment of these medical bills, is get an attorney and have that attorney assist you in navigating your way through making sure these bills get paid, or that you at least have an agreement with the medical provider.