Port Charlotte Personal Injury Lawyer
Port Charlotte is in Charlotte County, which means the same Twentieth Judicial Circuit our Fort Myers office works in, but a different courthouse: cases are filed in Punta Gorda. We handle Port Charlotte claims from our Fort Myers office, and a case arising here is filed in the Charlotte County Justice Center in Punta Gorda. 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 Port Charlotte
US-41 runs the length of the community as a divided highway with continuous commercial access, and I-75 runs parallel a few miles east. Together they produce the two crash types that dominate the caseload here: highway-speed collisions on the interstate, and turning collisions where drivers cross the divided highway to reach a business. Kings Highway and Veterans Boulevard carry the traffic between them.
Charlotte County has an older population than most of the state, and that shapes both the injuries and the arguments. Impacts that a younger person absorbs produce fractures and head injuries here, and insurers routinely respond by attributing everything to age or to a pre-existing degenerative finding on imaging. Almost everyone past a certain age has degenerative changes on a scan. The question is what the person could do before the crash and what they can do after, which is answered by treating records rather than by radiology alone.
Claims we handle from Port Charlotte
- I-75 collisions between the Charlotte County exits
- Turning and crossover collisions on US-41
- Serious injuries to older claimants blamed on degenerative findings
- Nursing home and assisted living neglect claims
Where a Port Charlotte case is handled
Port Charlotte is in Charlotte County, so a suit is filed in the Charlotte County Justice Center in Punta Gorda, in the Twentieth Judicial Circuit. The roads these claims come from are US-41 and the Tamiami Trail, I-75, Kings Highway, Veterans Boulevard and Harbor Boulevard, and where an injury needed trauma care the records generally sit with Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers. We work Port Charlotte from our Fort Myers office at 1825 Colonial Blvd, Fort Myers, FL 33907, and we do not publish an address here because we do not have one here.
The lawyers who would work your Port Charlotte case
We do not keep an office in Port Charlotte and we do not pretend to. Your case is worked out of our Fort Myers office by one of our trial attorneys, and you will know from the first conversation which of them has it.
They have been trying Charlotte County injury claims together since 1993, and they drive to Port Charlotte when a case needs them there.
Meet the attorneys →What we handle for Port Charlotte clients
Each of these is worked out of our Fort Myers office, which covers Charlotte County.
Wrongful Death
Florida wrongful death lawyers.
View →Medical Malpractice
Florida medical malpractice lawyers.
View →Workers Compensation
Florida workers compensation lawyers.
View →Dog Bite
Florida dog bite lawyers.
View →Bicycle Accident
Florida bicycle accident lawyers.
View →Bus Accident
Florida bus accident lawyers.
View →Port Charlotte questions we get
Is a Port Charlotte case handled in the same courthouse as a Fort Myers case?
Same circuit, different courthouse. Both Lee and Charlotte counties sit in the Twentieth Judicial Circuit, but a Charlotte County suit is filed at the Charlotte County Justice Center in Punta Gorda while a Lee County suit is filed at the Lee County Justice Center in Fort Myers. Different clerk, different local procedures, different jury pool. It is a short drive for us and it changes nothing about how the case is worked.
Do you have an office in Port Charlotte?
No, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. We serve Port Charlotte from our Fort Myers office at 1825 Colonial Blvd, Fort Myers, FL 33907, which is where the lawyer handling your case sits. It changes nothing about the claim: a Port Charlotte injury is filed in the Charlotte County Justice Center in Punta Gorda either way, and the first conversation costs you nothing wherever you are.
Which court hears a Port Charlotte injury case?
the Charlotte County Justice Center in Punta Gorda, in the Twentieth 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 Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers.
The questions that apply to any Florida claim, deadlines, fees and shared fault, are on our injury claim FAQ.
Injured in Port Charlotte?
Call and speak with a lawyer today. We will tell you honestly whether you have a case. We serve Port Charlotte from our Fort Myers office at 1825 Colonial Blvd, Fort Myers, FL 33907.