Margate Personal Injury Lawyer
No interstate runs through Margate, so its serious crashes happen where they are hardest to reconstruct: on wide surface main roads with a signal every few hundred yards. We handle Margate claims from our Fort Lauderdale office, and a case arising here is filed in the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale. 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 Margate
State Road 7, which is also US-441, is the spine of the city and the source of most of the work. It is a high-volume commercial strip with continuous driveways, and the recurring collision is a driver turning across traffic into or out of a plaza. There is rarely a police-reconstructed scene on a crash like that. There is one driver saying the light was green, another saying it was not, and whatever a nearby business happened to record.
That makes the evidence question urgent rather than academic. Store and plaza camera systems commonly overwrite in days, and a signal timing record has to be requested from the county before anyone has a reason to keep it. When we take a Margate case early, the first thing we do is send preservation letters to the businesses on that corner. When a case comes to us months later, that footage is usually gone and the claim turns on the two drivers alone.
Claims we handle from Margate
- Left-turn and driveway collisions along State Road 7 and US-441
- Signal-controlled intersection crashes on Atlantic Boulevard and Coconut Creek Parkway
- Slip and fall claims inside the 441 retail plazas
- Crashes where the only useful evidence is footage that is about to be overwritten
Where a Margate case is handled
Margate is in Broward County, so a suit is filed in the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit. The roads these claims come from are State Road 7 and US-441, Atlantic Boulevard, Coconut Creek Parkway, Royal Palm Boulevard and Copans Road, and where an injury needed trauma care the records generally sit with Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. We work Margate from our Fort Lauderdale office at 2101 W Commercial Blvd, Suite 1500, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309, and we do not publish an address here because we do not have one here.
The lawyers who would work your Margate case
We do not keep an office in Margate and we do not pretend to. Your case is worked out of our Fort Lauderdale office by one of our trial attorneys, and you will know from the first conversation which of them has it.
They have been trying Broward County injury claims together since 1993, and they drive to Margate when a case needs them there.
Meet the attorneys →What we handle for Margate clients
Each of these is worked out of our Fort Lauderdale office, which covers Broward County.
Airbnb Injury
Hurt at a Florida Airbnb or VRBO.
View →Premises Liability
Florida premises liability and negligent security lawyers.
View →Negligent Security
Attacked at a Florida apartment, hotel, store or parking lot.
View →Boat Accident
Florida boat, jet ski, parasailing and watercraft accident lawyers.
View →Product Liability
Florida product liability lawyers.
View →Scooter Accident
Florida scooter and e-scooter accident lawyers.
View →Margate questions we get
How quickly does surveillance footage of a crash disappear?
Often within seven to thirty days, and some systems overwrite sooner. A business has no duty to keep it until someone puts them on notice that it matters. That is why a written preservation demand in the first days is worth more than almost anything else we can do early, and why waiting to see whether you recover before calling a lawyer can quietly cost you the proof.
Do you have an office in Margate?
No, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. We serve Margate from our Fort Lauderdale office at 2101 W Commercial Blvd, Suite 1500, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309, which is where the lawyer handling your case sits. It changes nothing about the claim: a Margate injury is filed in the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale either way, and the first conversation costs you nothing wherever you are.
Which court hears a Margate injury case?
the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, in the Seventeenth 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 Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale.
The questions that apply to any Florida claim, deadlines, fees and shared fault, are on our injury claim FAQ.
The office that covers Margate
Injured in Margate?
Call and speak with a lawyer today. We will tell you honestly whether you have a case. We serve Margate from our Fort Lauderdale office at 2101 W Commercial Blvd, Suite 1500, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309.