Blog Category - Negligence Page 2

Jun

Does Jaywalking Prevent Recovering For Injuries in a Pedestrian Accident?

If you are jaywalking and injured by a motorist, can you still recover from the motorist for your injuries? Consider the following scenario. You are crossing the street, phone pressed to your ear on an important work call after leaving a customer meeting that ran extremely late...

Jun

Who Is Responsible for An Exterior Sidewalk in a Florida Slip and Fall?

You are walking towards a branch of your bank, which is on the first floor of a commercial office building, to withdraw some cash when you stumble over a piece of broken pavement outside the front entrance. You trip, break your ankle, and also sustain injuries to the tendons and ...

Jun

Percentage of Fault: If My Accident Was Partly My Fault, Can I Still Recover Damages From the Other Driver?

It is raining, the roads are slick, and you are speeding, but you are involved in a motor vehicle accident that is primarily someone else’s fault because the person who hit you was texting while driving. Since the other person bore some fault in the accident because that person w...

Jun

How Are My Lost Wages Calculated if I Am Injured as a Result of Someone Else’s Negligence in Florida?

If you are employed as a carpenter, you are injured in a car accident caused by someone else’s negligence, and your ability to use one of your hands is badly impaired as a result of that injury, then you are right to be worried about what effect that person’s negligence may have ...

Jun

Don’t Delay in Obtaining Medical Treatment After an Accident

One of the most important, but least understood, truths of motor vehicle accidents or other personal injury scenarios in which a victim is injured as a result of someone else’s negligence in Florida is the importance of receiving medical treatment for whatever injuries you suffer...

Jun

What If Multiple People Were Responsible for My Injuries?

If you are involved in a motor vehicle accident or any other personal injury scenario, sometimes there is only one person who is responsible for your injuries. This makes proving your case relatively simple and straightforward; you just have to show that the one person was neglig...

Jun

Do I Bring a Claim Against a Friend if I’m Injured at His Home?

Do you bring a claim against a friend? You are at a friend's house down the street when his or her normally friendly dog bites you or, worse, one of your children, causing serious injuries. Or the neighbor has a stair that is cracked leading up to his or her front porch tha...

Jun

Pedestrian Accidents and Negligence

Pedestrian accidents in Florida occur with dangerous regularity. A pedestrian many times may be in a rush and may feel like he or she does not have time to wait for a pedestrian signal at a busy intersection to change before crossing a busy street. For instance, you may be hurryi...

Jun

Blaming the Victim: Does It Work?

One of the greatest mysteries for anyone who has ever had an experience with the civil court system, whether in Florida or elsewhere, is how juries ultimately make the decisions that they do. Attorneys or judges who have been through hundreds of trials may think they have an idea...

Jun

Running a Red Light in Florida

Many people may have been driving and were about to drive through an intersection when they suddenly find themselves embroiled in a seemingly no-win situation. A traffic light that was green is suddenly turning from yellow into red, but a quick check into the rear-view mirror sho...

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