Florida Personal Injury Laws

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

Complicated Pedestrian Accident Cases

Pedestrian accident cases in Florida are typically complicated cases. Often times you don’t have surveillance of the incident itself. If there’s no witnesses, it can often times be your word against the word of the other driver. Obviously drivers in a vehicle who may have caused or been at fault for a pedestrian accident case– they’re always going to try to blame you or blame the pedestrian. So it’s important that you have a law firm that has handled pedestrian accident cases, that can get the proper experts, that can access the vehicle that was involved, because often times the black box data, or the event data recorder within that vehicle can prove critical evidence to speeds, braking, throttling, maneuvering. You want to make sure that that evidence is obtained before that it goes stale.

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.

Alternatives To Court, Auto Accident

There are alternatives to going to court in an accident case. Obviously, one alternative is to settle your case, and then you will not be going to court at all. But other than having a jury trial with a judge presiding over the trial, there are certain things that can be done. You can have a mediation, which, if it works, your case would be settled. You can have an arbitration, which means one or perhaps three individuals hear the case and make a decision. So the answer is yes, there are other options in your case other than going to court.

Orlando Nursing Home Neglect

I handled a 100 of nursing home cases over the last 20 years in Florida. They’re very sad cases, they’re difficult cases. And most of the cases the nursing home resident has passed away as a result of the neglect at the nursing home. And those cases the family is still entitled to recover. A lot of families have questions about whose entitled to recover. We can sit down and look at the situation and answer those questions and talk to you about whose entitled to recover. In a case where the nursing home resident is heard and still alive that nursing home resident has a claim for the medical bills and the pain and suffering that they went through. In a case where the nursing home resident passes away the family is then entitled to recover lost of love and support and guidance and pain and suffering for losing their love one. If you have any questions about a nursing home case in Florida, feel free to call me. Nathan Carter at Colling, Gilbert, Wright & Carter, 1-800-49-LEGAL.

By: Nathan Carter

Deadlines To Filing A Claim

There are very critical deadlines when it comes to filing suit after a big truck accident. In a death case, the statute of limitations runs two years from date of death. If it is a personal injury case in Florida, generally the statute is four years. However, there are certain time limits which may apply, which are different from that. For example, if it happens to be a big rig truck owned by the state of Florida or a governmental agency, there are certain notice requirements which have a three-year deadline, and it requires a totally different set of steps that need to be taken. The most important thing is you must have an attorney evaluate these deadlines.

Legally Responsible For A Defective Product

Typically in the state of Florida, every company or individual responsible for getting a product into the hands of you as consumers is responsible for selling, or manufacturing, or designing, or marketing a defective product. It’s incumbent upon you, and it’s important, to find an attorney with a good reputation of handling product defect cases to assess everyone who is responsible for getting that product designed, manufactured, and ultimately sold to you as consumers, to assess liability on the part of each and everyone of those potential defendants.

Do I Have a Medical Malpractice Claim in Orlando?

If you suspect that medical malpractice has occurred, it’s usually important right away to document things. A lot of times I tell folks to take notes, take pictures, document things early. Because when you’re stressed out and things are happening fast, a lot of times you don’t remember that later. Then, once you do all that, I think it’s important to talk to an attorney. Because a lot of times, you don’t know if malpractice has occurred. What we do then, is gather all the records. We’re able to spot issues on some of these cases easier than lay people are. We also have experts in every type of medical malpractice that has occurred. so we can get those records to our experts. Go over the whole chart and then sit down with you and the rest of the family and consult about whether or not there is a case. If you think you may have a case or just want to discuss your options, call me. Nathan Carter at Colling, Gilbert, Wright & Carter 1-800-49-LEGAL.

By: Nathan Carter

Boating Accident Claim

An important consideration for most everybody considering pursuing a boating accident claim, is how much is it going to cost to hire an attorney to do so. Most attorneys will evaluate your case free of charge. They’ll meet with you or speak with you over the phone, get the initial information, try to determine how the accident happened, how you were injured, what the basis of your claim is, and will assess for you, for no charge, whether or not you have a viable claim. If you do have a claim to move forward, then the attorney will talk to you further about the fees and costs involved in pursuing your claim beyond that.