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.

Determining If You Have A Case

Determining whether or not you have a case in Florida in any instance where there’s been a brain injury is a process of having your attorney evaluate and assess liability or fault. The next issue is an assessment of causation – meaning that the wrongdoing of the defendant, was it a cause of the brain injury – and then determining what the losses or damages are. This is something your attorney must do through the evaluation of such things as medical records, and speaking and conferring with experts who assess all of the documents and evidence in the case. Then, your lawyer will know whether or not you have a valid or viable brain injury case to file.

Alternatives To Court

Before filing a lawsuit and taking your case to court, your attorney most likely is going to make a reasonable attempt to try to settle your claim first with the insurance company for the at-fault driver or at-fault party. That typically involves putting a demand package or claims package together which includes the crash report, photos, medical records, wage information and any other documents or information supporting your claim. And that’s an effort typically made to avoid litigation. Trying to resolve the case directly with the insurance company without the need to go to court. If that doesn’t work then your attorney will file a lawsuit, your case will then go into litigation will be handled over the courthouse. But you will still have opportunities to try to resolve the case before it gets to trial through such things as mitigation and sometimes arbitration.

Workers Compensation Immunity

Typically in Florida employers have what we call workers’ compensation immunity, meaning that you cannot sue them if you’ve been injured at the workplace or on the job, but that only applies if your employer carries workers’ compensation coverage for you.

So if you’re injured at the workplace, or on the job, or at a construction site and you do not have workers’ compensation benefits that provide you medical treatment or loss of wages, it’s imperative that you contact a reputable law firm to assess whether or not you have a viable claim against your employer for that injury that you’ve suffered on the job.

Lawyer Referral Service

Hi, I’m Matt Dolman, of the Dolman Law Group. I’m a Clearwater civil trial attorney. If you were just in an accident you may be wondering whether you should call a lawyer referral service, one that advertises on television or the radio. In fact, if you live in the Tampa Bay area, our market is inundated with these advertisements all day long, and you’re probably wondering how good are they. Well, keep in mind that lawyer referral services are only partly regulated by the Florida Bar. When I say partly, only the lawyers are regulated. The lawyer referral service can often make advertisements, make claims, make statements that don’t pass Bar scrutiny. In fact, they don’t have to submit their advertisements to the Florida Bar.

411 Pain & Ask Gary

If you listen to a recent radio advertisement for 411 PAIN, you’ll note that the non-lawyer attorney spokesperson makes a very curious statement. And the statement they make is we have a very exclusive group of attorneys. We’ve spent many years putting this group together. Well, what does that really mean? Does that mean that these lawyers are superbly talented? I don’t want to make a generalization because there are some good lawyers that belong to these networks, but really if you become a member of 411 PAIN or Ask Gary, you simply have to pay to become a member. It’s a pay for play system. It doesn’t state the quality of the lawyer, how many cases they’ve tried, the types of verdicts they’ve obtained, are they experiencing any personal injury claims like yours. It simply means that they paid to be a member of a lawyer referral service, but keep in mind that being a member of such an exclusive group does not convey quality. It just conveys they paid.

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Car Accident Claim

Hi. I’m Julia McGrath, a Clearwater car accident attorney here at the Dolman Law Group. What really makes the difference here at Dolman Law Group and distinguishes us from the other law firms in town is our level of personal commitment and service to each and every client.

Injured Due to Negligence

When you’re injured as the result of someone else’s negligence, you need an attorney that’s going to be able to navigate you through that process because it’s going to be unfamiliar to you. At Dolman Law Group, our personal cellphone numbers are listed on our business card, and we’re there and available to clients to navigate them through the process and answer any questions they may have along the way. For more information, call me, Julia McGrath, your Clearwater car accident attorney.

By: Julia McGrath

Legal Rights For A Trucking Injury

There’re a number of steps you need to take in order to protect your legal rights after you have been injured by a semi-tractor trailer truck in an incident. Number one is you’re going to want to make sure you seek and obtain the best medical care to get better. Number two you want to seek the services of a qualified lawyer who has experience in handling big rig tractor trailer truck cases. Number three, you must take steps to preserve the evidence and that means preserving any of the vehicles which were involved in this incident. Number four, you must put your own insurance company on notice immediately. There’re certain requirements there and you don’t want to give up any rights in terms of your own insurance.

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.

Personal Injury Lawyer in Orlando

I’m Ron Gilbert with Colling Gilbert Wright & Carter. When you’re injured in the state of Florida you may very well have a personal injury claim. It really depends on the facts and what happened, but if you’re injured in the state of Florida call Colling Gilbert Wright & Carter 1800-49 LEGAL.

By: Ron Gilbert