Hialeah Personal Injury Lawyer
Hialeah is a working industrial city, and the difference that makes to an injury claim is trucks: Okeechobee Road and the Palmetto carry freight through the middle of it all day. We handle Hialeah claims from our Miami office, and a case arising here is filed in the Miami-Dade County Courthouse. Call 954-522-5800 and speak to a lawyer about what happened. The consultation is free and you pay nothing unless we win.
Florida shortened the deadline to file most injury lawsuits from four years to two years for accidents on or after March 24, 2023 (HB 837, amending Fla. Stat. § 95.11). Accidents before that date still carry the four-year deadline.
What we see in Hialeah
Okeechobee Road, which is US-27, is a truck route running diagonally through the city to the warehouse districts, and it meets the Palmetto Expressway and the Gratigny Parkway inside a few miles. A large share of the serious collisions we take from Hialeah involve a commercial vehicle, and those are not ordinary car cases. There is a carrier, a maintenance history, hours-of-service data and often a much larger policy, and the case is built around records rather than around the two drivers' accounts.
The industrial base also produces workplace injuries: warehouse and loading dock accidents, forklift injuries, falls from height and machinery injuries. Workers' compensation covers those regardless of fault, but it does not cover pain and suffering and it does not reach a negligent third party. When someone other than the employer caused the injury, an equipment manufacturer, a contractor, a delivery driver, there is a separate claim alongside the comp case, and it is frequently the larger one.
Claims we handle from Hialeah
- Commercial truck collisions on Okeechobee Road and the Palmetto Expressway
- Warehouse, loading dock and forklift injuries
- Third-party claims running alongside a workers' compensation case
- Intersection crashes on West 49th Street and Hialeah Drive
Where a Hialeah case is handled
Hialeah is in Miami-Dade County, so a suit is filed in the Miami-Dade County Courthouse, in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. The roads these claims come from are Okeechobee Road, the Palmetto Expressway, the Gratigny Parkway, West 49th Street and Hialeah Drive, and where an injury needed trauma care the records generally sit with the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. We work Hialeah from our Miami office at 1111 Brickell Avenue, 11th Floor, Miami, FL 33131, and we do not publish an address here because we do not have one here.
The lawyers who would work your Hialeah case
We do not keep an office in Hialeah and we do not pretend to. Your case is worked out of our Miami office by one of our trial attorneys, and you will know from the first conversation which of them has it.
They have been trying Miami-Dade County injury claims together since 1993, and they drive to Hialeah when a case needs them there.
Meet the attorneys →What we handle for Hialeah clients
Each of these is worked out of our Miami office, which covers Miami-Dade County.
Hialeah Funeral Home Negligence Lawyer
Wrongful cremation, lost or misidentified remains, and failed embalming.
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View →Hialeah questions we get
I am on workers' compensation. Can I still bring an injury claim?
Not against your employer in most cases, but often against someone else. If a subcontractor, an equipment manufacturer, a property owner or another driver caused the injury, that claim is separate from comp and covers what comp does not, including pain and suffering. Comp usually has a right to be repaid out of it, which is negotiable. Reporting the injury to your employer within thirty days is what protects the comp side while the rest is sorted out.
Do you have an office in Hialeah?
No, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. We serve Hialeah from our Miami office at 1111 Brickell Avenue, 11th Floor, Miami, FL 33131, which is where the lawyer handling your case sits. It changes nothing about the claim: a Hialeah injury is filed in the Miami-Dade County Courthouse either way, and the first conversation costs you nothing wherever you are.
Which court hears a Hialeah injury case?
the Miami-Dade County Courthouse, in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. Claims up to $50,000 are heard in county court and larger claims go to circuit court. If the injury was serious enough for trauma care, the records that matter most usually sit with the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.
The questions that apply to any Florida claim, deadlines, fees and shared fault, are on our injury claim FAQ.
Injured in Hialeah?
Call and speak with a lawyer today. We will tell you honestly whether you have a case. We serve Hialeah from our Miami office at 1111 Brickell Avenue, 11th Floor, Miami, FL 33131.