What if I Am Not Wearing My Seatbelt and Someone Else Hits and Injures Me? You are in a hurry to get to work, so you jump into your car and don’t put your seatbelt on before you immediately pull out of your driveway, instead planning to buckle up at the first red light you…
You were walking across the street and had the right of way due to an illuminated walk sign. You were paying attention to your surroundings carefully, scanning the road for potential dangers, and generally doing everything you were supposed to be doing while crossing the road according to Florida law. A car approached the intersection…
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. There are pedestrians all over the place, as…
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 ligaments that connect to your…
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 was operating his or her vehicle…
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 on your ability…
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 suffered as soon as possible after your injuries have occurred. There…
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 negligent, that the person’s negligence caused you injuries and…
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 that the neighbor…
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 hurrying back from a weekday…
