Lake Worth Beach Personal Injury Lawyer

Local knowledge

What we see in Lake Worth Beach

Dixie Highway and Federal Highway run in parallel through the city, both wide, both fast, and both crossed constantly on foot. A large share of the population here does not drive to work, and the bus stops, the shift-work hours and the distance between marked crossings combine into a predictable pattern of people struck while crossing at night. Those cases are winnable, but only if the fault argument is handled properly from the start.

Insurers respond to almost every one of these claims by saying the pedestrian crossed outside a crosswalk. Florida divide fault rather than barring the claim, so a person found partly responsible still recovers, reduced by their share. What moves that share is the detail: how far from a marked crossing, what the lighting was, what the driver's speed was, and whether the driver had any real chance to stop. Getting the scene documented before the roadway changes is what makes those arguments possible.

Claims we handle from Lake Worth Beach

• Pedestrians struck crossing Dixie Highway and Federal Highway, often at night
• Cyclists riding to and from work along the highway corridors
• Crashes on Lake Worth Road between I-95 and Military Trail
• Claims where an insurer blames the pedestrian for crossing mid-block

Where a Lake Worth Beach case is handled

Lake Worth Beach is in Palm Beach County, so a suit is filed in the Palm Beach County Courthouse in West Palm Beach, in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit. The roads these claims come from are Lake Worth Road, Dixie Highway, Federal Highway, I-95, 10th Avenue North and Military Trail, and where an injury needed trauma care the records generally sit with St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach. We work Lake Worth Beach from our West Palm Beach office at 2101 Vista Parkway, Suite 4500, West Palm Beach, FL 33411, and we do not publish an address here because we do not have one here.