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FLORIDA AUTO ACCIDENT CLAIMS
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IF THERE IS NO RECOVERY, WE DO NOT CHARGE YOU ATTORNEY’S FEES OR COSTS. NOTE: The Florida Bar has no specific categories of lawyer for individual types of cases within the area of personal injury.

Are you looking for a Florida Auto Accident Lawyer? Do you want to learn more about what Florida Auto Accident Attorneys consider when they decide to accept or decline a case? Read on.

YOUR FIRST CONSULTATION

Florida Auto Accident Lawyers want to know the smallest of details about how your accident happened. Your case will be evaluated in two distinct areas: liability and damages.

On the liability side, the Florida car accident lawyer wants to know all about your accident:

• What you saw, heard, and if there were any eyewitnesses.
• Did the other driver say anything? Was the other driver alone or did he/she have passengers?
• If the police were called, did they issue a ticket? If so, who was issued the ticket?
• Do you have the police report? If not, do you have a police report case number?
• What was the extent of damage to your car, and where is the car now? Have any pictures been taken of the car? How about the other driver’s car?
• Did you report this accident to your insurance company? Have your policy information handy.
• Have you talked to an insurance company representative for either or both your own company and the other driver’s insurance company? Most Florida Auto Accident Lawyers will tell you not to discuss your case with insurance representatives unless your lawyer is present, and that if the insurance representatives call you, simply ask them to call your Florida Auto Accident Lawyer.
• Were you wearing a seat belt?
• Were you offered fire rescue or other medical transport assistance at the scene, and have you been to an emergency room or doctor since the accident?

• Do you have any previous injuries or medical conditions?
• Have you made a claim before for injuries, even if it is long ago, or merely under your employment workers compensation?
• What doctors have you been treated by?
• Did you lose time from work? If so, how much and who do you work for?
• Do you have any photographs of your vehicle or the scene of the accident?
• Do you have an estimate for the repair of your automobile?
• Were you the driver or the passenger?
• Were you driving your own car or was the car owned by someone else?
• If you were not the driver or passenger, were you a pedestrian or riding a bicycle at the time of the accident?
• What were the road conditions at the time of the accident?
• What was the weather like at the time of the accident?
• What time of day did the accident occur?
• Were there any witnesses to the accident? If so, do you have their names and addresses?

MATERIALS YOU SHOULD GATHER:

• Medical bills and records, if you have them
• Automobile Insurance information
• Health insurance information
• Medicare information
• Medicaid information, if applicable
• List of all health care providers for the past five years
• Photographs of your injuries, the scene of the accident, and of your vehicle, if you have any
• Names and addresses of witnesses, if any
• Your driver’s license
• Your employment history for the past five years
• Florida Automobile Accident Report

Do not worry if you do not have these materials. Your Florida Auto Accident Lawyer may hire an investigator to investigate your accident for you.

THE FLORIDA “NO FAULT THRESHOLD”:

Many Florida Auto Accident Lawyers do not explain the “No Fault Threshold” during the first consultation. You are entitled to loss of wages, past, present, and future depending on what the jury determines after hearing from you, your doctor, and the doctor for the other side. The same is true for medical bills after it has been established that the bills are reasonable and related.

A Florida Auto Accident Lawyer will tell you that unless you sustained a “permanent injury within a reasonable degree of medical probability” you cannot get a jury verdict award for pain and suffering.

In a two car accident regardless of whether you are the passenger or driver, you are probably going to be advised by your Florida Auto Accident Lawyer that your injuries must rise to the level of a “permanent injury.” If you have a serious enough injury, this often means that a physician must issue a written report assigning you a “permanent partial impairment of the body as a whole.”

DEADLINE FOR FILING A LAWSUIT:

Generally, there is a no-extension time limit of 4 years against all possible negligent defendants with exceptions such as slip and falls at amusement parks, governmental, sovereign or municipal facilities, on cruise ships, railroads, buses or other conveyances. These exceptions may create a statute of limitations as short as one year. Contact a Florida car accident lawyer to determine which deadline applies to you.

Unfortunately you are probably seeking a Florida Personal Injury Lawyer because you or someone you love has experienced a significant tragedy in their life. But when that tragedy is by fault of another person or company, then your consultation with a Florida Personal Injury Lawyer should include compensation for your medical expenses, earnings losses, loss of abilities, change of lifestyle and anything else that has a cost associated with it that is attributable to your accident.