In most injury cases, you’ll be dealing with insurance companies. For example, if you’ve been in a boating or car accident, you’ll be dealing with the insurance company covering your vehicle or boat.
If your home has suffered damage, you’ll be working with your homeowner’s policy provider. Even if you’re injured by a faulty appliance in your home, you’ll probably be dealing with your medical insurance provider as you seek medical treatment.
There’s no law requiring you to hire a Florida personal injury attorney if you’ve been injured in Hollywood, Miami, or any other Florida community. You can simply absorb the costs of your injury or submit a claim with your insurance company yourself.
Despite this, many injured people call the attorneys at Flaxman Law Group if they’re injured in a workplace accident, car collision, or other situation. Our clients tell us that working with an attorney is important to them.
No one, except maybe emergency responders and Florida personal injury lawyers, is taught what to do after a serious injury. If you’re ever in a serious accident or suffer an injury anywhere in Florida, knowing what to do can help protect your rights. It can even save your life.
Here’s what you need to do.
In Florida, many personal injury cases have a four-year statute of limitations. This means that you must file your legal claim within four years of the date of your injury, usually by working with a Florida personal injury lawyer, like the team at Flaxman Law Group. However, there are several things you need to know about the statute of limitations and how it could impact your case:
It’s hard to put a price tag on a serious injury. A catastrophic injury, such as brain trauma, spinal cord injury, an amputation, or any serious injury may cause severe trauma as well as physical pain and suffering. It’s hard to put monetary amount on that.
However, whether you file a legal claim or seek compensation through an insurer, determining the correct cost of your injuries is important. Knowing how much your claim is worth allows you to pursue fair compensation, so more of your injury is covered. This is important to help avoid high medical bills you can’t pay, lost income that leaves you unable to pay your living costs, and other financial disasters that unfortunately can happen to Florida plaintiffs.
Every resident of Miami, Homestead, Hollywood, and every South Florida community is at risk of a serious injury. No matter your age, income, habits, lifestyle, or gender, you can’t predict the unexpected. The legal team at Flaxman Law Group has worked with many Florida residents seeking a personal injury attorney. Many of them tell us “I never expected this to happen to me.”
We genuinely hope you’re never seriously injured. But with tens of millions of Americans seeking medical attention each year due to unexpected injury, it’s best to be prepared.
Florida follows a pure comparative negligence rule and you need to understand the basics of this rule to understand how negligence could impact your claim and the compensation you can seek. When you sit down with an attorney from Flaxman Law Group at our Miami, Homestead, or Hollywood offices, we’ll be looking at comparative negligence and how it could impact your potential case.
It doesn’t matter whether your injuries were caused by a workplace injury, car accident, slip and fall, or other situation. Comparative negligence needs to be considered.
Serious injuries in Southern Florida and across the country are more common than many people realize. According to the CDC, 24.8 million Americans visit their doctors each year due to an injury and another 24.2 million. Unintentional injuries result in 224,935 deaths each year.
Flaxman Law Group has represented many people in personal injury claims in Southern Florida through our offices in Miami, Homestead, and Hollywood, and we’ve seen many types of injuries, from amputations to hip fractures to life-changing head injuries and other types of harm. In all cases, we advise people who have been injured to do the following to protect themselves and their finances.
While the situation may be frightening, whether you’ve been in a boating accident or have suffered a workplace injury, try to stay calm so you can get the help you need. Evaluate the situation if you can so you can determine how seriously you’re injured and what your next steps should be.
Many Americans live with a medical condition, whether it’s back aches, type 2 diabetes, migraines, or other conditions. If you’re injured in a workplace accident, traffic collision, other incident, your insurance may refuse to cover your injuries or may make a lowball offer.
According to Florida law, you may still have a claim if you’re injured and suffer an injury. For example, if you have osteoporosis and suffer a fracture in a slip and fall, you may still be eligible to file a claim against the property owner if they were negligent and their actions led to your injury. How much you may qualify for in such a case will depend on how much the injury worsened the existing medical condition.
Whether you’ve been injured in a workplace accident, trucking collision, slip and fall incident, or any other situation, one of the first questions that’s worth asking is about your potential claim:
If you’ve been injured, do you have a claim to seek compensation?
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