Fort Lauderdale Injury Attorney Blog

We recently received a call from a hard working Broward County, Florida man who was negligently injured in an auto accident the day before, but despite his pain, refused the paramedic's request that he be taken to the hospital. Why? "I don't have health insurance", he told us. "I'm in pain, but I can't afford medical bills." It is an unfortunate truth that more and more people can not afford health insurance, and that people do not understand the terms and conditions of the insurance they do have.

This man, like all drivers in Florida, had mandatory PIP insurance (together with his property damage insurance and his bodily injury insurance, which most people understand), but he did not understand what the PIP insurance meant. PIP, essentially, is health insurance for injuries that you receive in an auto accident. It does not matter who is at fault. PIP typically pays 80% of your medical bills, and 60% of any lost wages, up to a cap of $10,000.00. The gentleman who called us WAS insured - he just did not realize it. He was in pain, and after speaking to us went to the emergency room, where of course his PIP insurance was readily accepted. He is now our client.

If you are severely injured in an automobile accident, we'd like to help. Remember that attorneys who are experienced in personal injury, wrongful death and automobile accident cases can ensure that all possible avenues of recovery are thoroughly exhausted and that your rights as an accident victim are protected. Call us at 954.389.8150, 239.793.3331, or contact us by email through our website at www.fairnessforall.com.

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A negligent driver lost control and caused the wrongful death of one pedestrian, and catastrophic personal injuries to another last Sunday. We see this scenario often, unfortunately.

The damages recoverable in Florida for the wrongful death and the serious personal injuries here are different. In a wrongful death action, the bulk of the damages recoverable are generally economic damages such as loss of income, and non-economic damages for the loss of society and campanionship suffered by the family of the person who died due to negligence. A negligence action for serious personal injuries, however, awards a similar type of economic damages, but awards pain and suffering damages to the injured person, and often some damages to a spouse who suffered a loss of consortium, comfort and society as a result of the injuries to his or her spouse. Additionally, pedestrians often do not realize that when they are struck by a car, under many circumstances their own insurance might well provide benefits and coverage for lost wages, medical bills, and even pain and suffereing damages.

Please see our web page entries discussing wrongful death cases and automobile accidents for more information.

If you are severely injured in an automobile accident, whether as a driver, passenger, or pedestrian, we'd like to help. Remember that attorneys who are experienced in personal injury, wrongful death and automobile accident cases can ensure that all possible avenues of recovery are thoroughly exhausted and that your rights as an accident victim are protected. Call us at 954.389.8150, 239.793.3331, or contact us by email through our website at www.fairnessforall.com.

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A Fort Lauderdale motorcycle accident took the life of one man and resulted in two serious personal injuries on Friday, May 2, 2008. Motorcycle crashes, obviously, often result in catastrophic injuries. They are most often the result of automobile driver negligence, but sometimes are the result of the negligence of the driver of the motorcycle. Passengers who are injured in cases where the motorcycle driver is at fault possess completely legitimate claims against the driver and/or his insurance company; motorcyclists injured by negligent vehicle operators not only have claims versus those negligent persons, but also find it easier in litigation if the personal injuries are not necessarily permanent. This is because in Florida those who are injured on a motorcycle generally are not barred from suing simply because they did not suffer a permanent injury, where that prohibition does exist in some other types of automobile cases.

We have successfully handled these types of cases, and recently received a large verdict in Naples, Florida, in a case where a care made a left turn in front of a motorcycle, causing the motorcyle to crash into the automobile, and resulting in serious personal injuries to both riders of the motorcycle.

If you have been seriously injured in a motorcycle accident occurring in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Naples, or elsewhere in the State or nation, we'd like to help. Call Mark or Rhonda at 954.389.8150, or 239.793.3331, or contact us through our website at www.fairnessforall.com.

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A driver of a 1996 Jaguar sustained severe injuries and died at the scene when he lost control of his car on an exit ramp of I-95 in Broward County. The Fort Lauderdale vehicle accident happened at approximately 11:30 a.m, in broad daylight, on the southbound ramp of I-95 leading to Interstate 595, according the the Florida Highway Patrol.

An accident involving only one car is often caused by dangerous road conditions, other drivers who are speeding, drunk drivers who cause injuries or deaths and fail to stop, defective design and/or maintenance of an automobile, or simple error by the driver. Negligence of the driver in a single automobile accident often results in serious personal injuries to passengers, who have a claim against the driver and/or the driver's insurance company, or the injured person's own insurance company if uninsured motorists insurance or underinsured motorists insurance was purchased. The other types of negligence described possess an injured person with valid claims against the wrongdoer, be it against a municipality, person, private company, or automobile manufacturer. We have been successful in many instances in bringing cases for personal injury or wrongful death even when there is only one vehicle involved in a motor vehicle accident, be the accident in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Naples, or elsewhere in the State and nation.

If you are severely injured in an automobile accident, we'd like to help. Remember that attorneys who are experienced in personal injury, wrongful death and automobile accident cases can ensure that all possible avenues of recovery are thoroughly exhausted and that your rights as an accident victim are protected. Call us at 954.389.8150, 239.793.3331, or contact us by email through our website at www.fairnessforall.com.

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Driving to court in Broward County recently, we saw yet another auto accident that was caused by a negligent left turn. We have been handling personal injury automobile accident cases for almost a combined 40 years between Mark and Rhonda, and the significant percentage of crashes involve people at red lights or stop signs who are suddenly hit in the rear by careless, negligent drivers, or who themselves crash into a car making a negligent left turn across traffic.

Although the case is certainly more straight forward when the injured victim is the one who had the right of way, we have been successful when representing the turning party as well. Often it might seem that an automobile crash resulting from a left turn across traffic must be due to the turning vehicles' negligence, but we have accident reconstruction experts who have successfully proven that speeding by the oncoming car was the real cause - something by doing metallurgy tests, sometimes by measuring the skid marks in order to determine speed, and increasingly by obtaining GPS data from both vehicles so as to get a precise reading of the speed.

Hit in the rear cases are more straight forward, although there do exist some exceptions to that rule. For instance, if a car stops short negligently, or tries to make an illegal U turn, and is struck from behind, then the claim by the struck driver is not necessarily a "slam dunk", and the driver who struck the leading vehicle, if injured, may have a claim himself.

It is always wise to have experienced attorneys deal with the big insurance companies in these situations. Remember, the goal of insurance adjusters is to save their company money, not to pay you! If they have to pretend to be your friend, so be it, but consumers need to be weary.

We'd like to help. Call Rhonda or Mark at 954.389.8150, 239.793.3331, or email us via our website at www.fairnessforall.com.

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