If you have been injured due to someone else’s negligence, you will likely require medical treatment. Your injuries could be from a motor vehicle accident or a slip-and-fall incident. However, predicting the exact course of your future treatment can be challenging, as recovery is often unpredictable. Insurance may not cover all the necessary medical interventions…
For anyone injured in a motor vehicle accident, slip and fall incident, or other scenario due to someone else’s negligence, your personal injury case value is crucial. Yet it is often hard to understand. If you have suffered injuries requiring expensive medical treatment and missed work, it’s natural to wonder how much you can expect…
Building code violations are common issues that often lead to injuries in Florida slip and fall cases. For example, let’s say you miss a step and fall down a staircase at an apartment building while visiting a friend. Your attorney will begin the investigation of your case by having an expert inspect that staircase. This…
Determining your future medical needs is one crucial factor in evaluating your personal injury claim if you’ve suffered injuries due to someone else’s negligence. Regardless of the type of personal injury, understanding your future medical treatment and related costs is essential. This is often the most difficult part of valuing a personal injury case, whether…
As you walk down the stairs of your apartment building, you slip and fall on a broken step. The hospital treats you for a fractured ankle that will need surgery to fully heal. You contact your landlord, who refers you to his attorney. You contact the attorney the next day. She tells you to read…
The “Statute of Limitations” refers to a crucial aspect of the recent changes made to Florida law in HB 837, popularly known as “tort reform.” This comprehensive legislative package has been making headlines in Tallahassee over the past few months. One significant alteration brought about by this reform pertains to the statute of limitations for…
In a particularly unusual incident at a high school in St. Augustine, a student fell off an elevated walkway two stories above the ground on January 24th. The incident, which took place at Pedro Menendez High School in St. Johns County south of Jacksonville, occurred when the student somehow fell over the walkway railing and…
Despite the best attempts of an excellent mediator and countless telephone calls in between your attorney and the defense attorney for the motorist who injured you, your case simply cannot be settled before trial starts. Immediately before the first day of trial, your lawyer tells you that, whatever you do, you cannot mention that either…
You are involved in a multi-car collision. Glancing down at his phone to answer a message at the same time the traffic in front of him unexpectedly comes to a sudden stop, the driver behind you plows into the back of your car, causing you to hit the car in front of you and so…
Drunk driving is a serious problem in Florida just like it is everywhere in the United States. According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) data, 10,142 people died in 2019 across the country in drunk-driving accidents. This is just the number of people who were killed in a drunk-driving accident and does not even count…
