Florida Personal Injury Laws

Experts Investigating A Motorcycle Accident

It is critical to have qualified experts to establish both liability and damages in a motorcycle accident case. We’ve had cases where there have been four or five witnesses that have observed a motorcycle accident, and invariably two years, three years later when you’re taking their depositions, they have completely inconsistent versions of what happened even though they all witnessed the same exact crash. So it’s important to have qualified, reputable experts that can talk to a jury about liability issues and can reconstruct the accident. Also, in motorcycle accident cases, you’re typically dealing with death or at least with catastrophic injuries. When you represent a motorcycle accident victim who has had catastrophic injuries, it’s important to have qualified medical experts that cannot only talk about current injuries but also assess future needs and future medical care required to treat what are oftentimes catastrophic injuries.

My Most Rewarding Case in Orlando

One of the most rewarding cases for me personally was a case that I handled many years ago. It involved the brain injury of a baby. Every year I would get, after that case was over, I’d get a Christmas card from the mother, that went on for many, many years. What was most rewarding though was about 18 years after I handled that case, I got a graduation notice. That young man had grown up, gone to high school with the brain injury and he graduated high school. That was because of the early intervention that we were able to get for him. So if you have questions about brain injury, give me a call. I’m Ron Gilbert with Colling Gilbert Wright and Carter. 1-800-49-LEGAL.

By: Ron Gilbert

Witnesses To A 18 Wheeler Accident

In any big rig tractor trailer truck accident case, witnesses are helpful and witnesses are usually necessary. We’re referring here to eye witnesses who actually saw something just before, or during, or after the wreck, and we’re talking about experts who come on the scene including law enforcement officers and paramedics. But in addition, key witnesses will be the people involved in the two vehicles, and it’s important to obtain the statements of those people – the drivers, the passengers – as quickly as possible. Witnesses play a key role in each and every case.

Importance Of A Doctor Post-Injury

If the accident you’ve been involved in has resulted in you feeling injured, then it is important that you go to the doctor so that your injuries not only can be treated, but so that your injuries can also be documented for the claims handling process. Never allow a lawyer or a law firm to dictate your medical treatment. If you feel injured, if you feel hurt, if you feel different than you did before an accident, it’s imperative that you go to a doctor, you seek medical treatment, so that you can be adequately treated for your injuries and so that your injuries and damages can be adequately documented.

Who can you sue if you are involved in a car accident in Florida?

There are many options. Of course, you can sue the other two drivers involved in the accident. If you are a passenger, your host driver or the other driver. If you are driver, you can sue the other driver. But it’s deeper than that. You also have potential claims against automobile manufacturers, property owners for obstructions division, auto-repair companies for falling to maintain cars. There are many options options available and many potential parties at fault. Hire an attorney, and call us if you have questions like these. We get them all the time at Colling Gilbert Wright and Cater.

By: Mel Wright

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

Additional Compensation, Big Rig Truck Hits A Car

When a truck driver of the big rig loses control and causes an accident which injures you, you can seek recovery from that driver and from his or her employer, or the person, or company owning the vehicle itself. Sometimes the driver himself or herself may not have direct insurance coverage and you actually obtain the recovery through the employer or the owner of the vehicle.

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.

How do you value your car accident case?

There are many different factors that we look at. Things like: how long were you out of work? What were your medical bills? What type of injury did you suffer? Is it an injury that’s going to require surgery? Is it something that’s going to be long-lasting with permanent impairment? So, if you have questions about your car accident case, give me a call. I’m Ron Gilbert with Colling Gilbert Wright & Carter: 1-800-49-LEGAL.

By: Ron Gilbert