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When to Hire a Lawyer After Your Auto Accident
Go to When to Hire a Lawyer After Your Auto AccidentImmediately after your accident is the best time to hire a lawyer. You can wait until after you’ve taken the other driver’s information, after you’ve reported the accident to the police, and possibly after you’ve seen a doctor or received care at the emergency room – but definitely consult a lawyer before you talk to…
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Texting While Driving: The Legality When No Laws are in Place
Go to Texting While Driving: The Legality When No Laws are in PlaceFlorida is one of the few states that still has no limits to text messaging while driving. In California, for example, it’s illegal to use your cell phone while driving unless you have a hands-free device and texting is strictly off-limits when you’re behind the wheel. However, just because texting while driving is technically legal,…
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Seat Belts Can Save Your Case
Go to Seat Belts Can Save Your CaseIn Florida, Statute 316.614 requires front seat occupants over the age of 18 to wear a seat belt. Your car accident case can suffer if you don’t follow the law. Even if someone is over the age of 18 and is a back seat passenger, thus not required to wear a seat belt under Florida…
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Proving Liability in a No-Fault State
Go to Proving Liability in a No-Fault StateOf course, “No Fault” is something of a misnomer. It simply means you have Personal Injury Protection under Florida law that pays for 80% of your medical bills and 60% of lost wages up to $10,000 when you are involved in an accident, no matter whose fault the accident was. However, you have to recover…
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The Best Legal Advice You’ll Ever Get
Go to The Best Legal Advice You’ll Ever GetIt’s simple. The best legal advice I can give you is to put everything in writing and organize your paperwork. The claims process can take months or years, and in that time you’ll have to submit information, and resubmit information (adjusters have been known to lose paperwork), which means you have to be able to…
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How to Pay Your Bills When You Miss Work Due to an Auto Accident
Go to How to Pay Your Bills When You Miss Work Due to an Auto AccidentAfter being in an auto accident, you may wonder how you will pay all of your bills when you have to miss work due to the injuries and the doctor’s visits. Fortunately, you live in Florida, a no-fault state. Here’s why you are so lucky. In Florida, and eleven other no fault states, up to…
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Florida’s New Personal Injury Protection (PIP) Law Takes Effect January 2013
Go to Florida’s New Personal Injury Protection (PIP) Law Takes Effect January 2013Florida’s new PIP Law takes effect January 1, 2013. The Florida Legislature has enacted a new PIP Statute which severely limits your rights to obtain your benefits under your PIP insurance. Additionally, it gives insurance companies numerous ways out for not lowering their rates. Thus, in effect, this is a huge boom for the insurance…
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Anatomy of a Rear End Collision
Go to Anatomy of a Rear End CollisionGetting rear-ended is one of the most common accidents, and often one of the simplest when it comes to determining who is at fault. In most cases, the driver of the vehicle that hits the vehicle in front of it is at fault. For example: you’re driving down the highway when the traffic suddenly stops…
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What Happens When the Other Driver Doesn’t Have Insurance?
Go to What Happens When the Other Driver Doesn’t Have Insurance?You get hit, and either the other driver speeds away, or the driver tells you that he or she doesn’t have insurance (or not enough insurance). What do you do? According to the Insurance Research Council, in 2009, 24 percent of Florida residents were uninsured – one of the highest percentages in the nation. Even…
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How PIP Works in Your Florida Auto Accident
Go to How PIP Works in Your Florida Auto AccidentPersonal Injury Protection is insurance that covers medical expenses for you and your passengers, regardless of who is at fault for the accident. That’s the short explanation. Here’s the breakdown of how it works: Your PIP only covers up to 80 percent of medical bills up to $10,000 and up to 60% of lost wages…
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What Role Does My Doctor Play in My Auto Accident Case?
Go to What Role Does My Doctor Play in My Auto Accident Case?The doctor you see after you are injured in an auto accident has two responsibilities: 1) To help you recover as much as possible. 2) To gather documentation of your injury. You should see a doctor as soon after your accident as possible, even if you aren’t “that hurt.” It often takes up to a…
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How Long Do Car Accident Cases Usually Last?
Go to How Long Do Car Accident Cases Usually Last?The settlement phase, during which your lawyer and the insurance company decide on a fair offer of compensation, can last anywhere from three months to a year and a half for a relatively simple rear-end auto accident. For example, if you were hit from behind, experienced some pain and sought treatment with one to two…
