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…
It is perhaps every parent’s worst nightmare. You are involved in a motor vehicle accident caused by someone else’s negligence and your ten-year-old child, who was in the car with you at the time, is injured as a result of the accident. Your child suffers an injury and this child injury requires significant medical treatment,…
Is it ever possible you would need to file a claim with or even sue your own insurance company if you are involved in an accident where someone else is at fault? Of course not, right? Most people do not understand when or why you would ever have to file a claim with, or even…
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…
Someone turning left and speeding through an intersection, laying on his horn in an attempt to beat a red light, plows into your car as you accelerate from a green light with the right of way on a busy South Florida road in broad daylight. He smashes into your rear driver’s side door and trunk,…
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…
You are waiting to cross a busy intersection of two main roads in South Florida in the middle of rush hour after a long day at work. After waiting for what seems like forever, you realize the pedestrian signal simply does not work after several cycles of the traffic lights go by. Whether the signal…
There have been an overwhelming number of shows on television throughout the years involving the criminal justice system. Many people come away with a mistaken understanding as to what exactly a burden of proof is and what burden of proof the injured party in a Florida personal injury case is required to satisfy to prevail…
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…
You are heading home from the grocery store one day after work when you stop at a yellow light that is clearly about to turn red. The next thing you know, you hear a deafening noise, and your car is thrown forward into the intersection. The driver behind you, clearly intent on making that light,…
