Florida Personal Injury Laws

Brain Injury Lawsuit Filed By A Loved One

In Florida, a person can file a brain injury lawsuit on behalf of the loved one under certain circumstances. If you are a parent and it is a child who is a minor, yes, you can bring that lawsuit on behalf of your child. In other circumstances, it may require a guardianship to be set up so that you are appointed as the guardian by a guardianship judge in probate and estate court. Once you are assigned as the guardian by the judge, you then bring the lawsuit on behalf of the person in your capacity as his or her guardian.

Dangers of Xarelto

Warning. The blood thinner Xarelto has been linked to internal bleeding. The FDA has received numerous reports the dangers from using Xarelto. Side effects may include: spinal epidural hematoma, stroke, heart attack, or even death. If you or a loved one has had serious health issues after using Xeralto you may be entitled to compensation, but you must act immediately to protect your legal rights. Our team will help get you the compensation you deserve. Call us at 772-708-0952 today.

By: Travis Walker

Factors To Valuing A Personal Injury

Determining what your personal injury case is worth is probably the most difficult task that any attorney has in the course of your case because there’s no easy answer, and the answer to the question often varies greatly from the beginning of the case to the end. It sometimes changes from time to time with additional information that’s obtained through the discovery process. The value of your case depends on a number of factors, including the nature of the accident, the nature and severity of your injuries or damages, and any available insurance coverage that applies to the case. The most important thing to keep in mind is that you should maintain regular contact with your attorney who can answer candidly his or her assessment regarding the value of the case, which helps you decide at every step of the way whether it makes sense to settle your case with the other side, or to continue pursuing your case towards trial.

Do you need a lawyer for a car accident claim that was not your fault?

You should have a lawyer any time you’re injured in any kind of accident, but especially a car accident in Florida. If you don’t report your accident to your own insurance company and get medical treatment within 14 days you could lose valuable insurance benefits. I’m Mel Wright. I’m a partner at Colling Gilbert Wright & Carter. Call us at 1800-49 LEGAL.

By: Mel Wright

How Much Is My Case Worth?

Hi, I’m Matt Dolman of the Dolman Law Group. I’m a Clearwater civil trial attorney. A question I’m often faced with is, how much is my case worth? And the context I’m going to answer this question in is for an individual that was just in an auto accident. Keep in mind that the value of a case is based on a number of criteria. How much insurance is available? How big was the impact in terms of the collision itself? Was there a lot of property damage? Do you have prior injuries going into the accident? What are your pre-existing injuries, and was there an aggravation or exacerbation of your prior symptoms? Are you going to need future medical are?

Determining Case Value

Any attorney or legal assistant or paralegal or anyone that tells you how much your case is worth before you commence medical treatment, and seriously, before you have gone through a long period of medical treatment where we can ascertain what your future medical costs will be, is simply blowing smoke. They’re lying to you. The only way you can tell what the value of a case is, is based on the criteria we already spoke of. When you first are in an automobile accident, you’re not going to know what your injuries really are. They could be catastrophic, they could be minor, but until there’s a passage of time, we don’t know if these injuries will alleviate themselves. Will they heal? And what will be the permanent ramifications, if any?

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By: Matt Dolman

Legal Philosophy

My goal is to make sure that the client knows they are the most important client on my roster. I’m always available. My cell phone is given to them at every client intake meeting. I take calls at all hours of the night, even to answer mundane questions like, “What’s happening with my pit payments?”

By: Alexander Knapp

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.

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.

Key Information On Medical Device Injury

It’s important if you believe you or a loved one have been injured by a medical device. As in other product liability cases, you want to make sure that you preserve the evidence. Often times the laboratory at a hospital during perhaps a revision surgery and a hip surgery, when a defective hip is removed and a new one is put in, it’s important that that evidence be preserved. A lot of times it takes an attorney or a least a loved one to make sure that gets coordinated through the hospital’s laboratory so that evidence can be preserved. As in other cases, not only is it important to preserve the evidence that will become relevant to prove the product is defective later, but it’s important that the injuries are documented. That’s photographs, video documenting of the injuries that a person may be going through, which obviously they will heal over time. If that’s not documented in the beginning, that’s obviously crucial evidence that’s lost.