Florida personal injury practice areas
Every claim type below has its own page setting out the Florida law that governs it and the deadlines that apply. If what happened to you is not here, call 954-522-5800 and ask. Most injury claims come down to the same negligence question.
Category On the road
On the road
Crashes involving any kind of vehicle, and the people they hit, including the worst-injured of them.
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- Car Accident A crash takes a normal week apart: the pain, the car you no longer have, the paychecks you are about to miss, and no idea who pays for any of it. Read more
- Truck Accident The company that owns that truck had people at the scene before you had a diagnosis. Read more
- Motorcycle Accident You are the one in the hospital, and you are also the one being blamed for it. Read more
- Uber and Lyft Accident You were a passenger with no control over any of it, and now nobody will say who pays. Read more
- Bus Accident A bus is somebody else’s vehicle, somebody else’s driver and somebody else’s insurer, and you are the one hurt. Read more
- Pedestrian and Bicycle You were walking, and a driver who never looked has taken months out of your year. Read more
- Bicycle Accident You were riding legally and a driver came through you anyway. Read more
- E-Bike Accident You were on a bicycle with a motor, and every insurer involved is about to argue you were on a motorcycle. Read more
- Scooter Accident The scooter belongs to a company, the app belongs to a company, and the injury belongs to you. Read more
- Self-Driving Car Accident Nobody was driving, and everybody involved would like that to be somebody else’s problem. Read more
- Train Accident A train cannot stop for you, which is exactly why the crossing and the signals had to be right. Read more
- Catastrophic Injury The hospital discharges you and the rest of your life begins, and nobody has costed it. Read more
- Negligence Somebody was careless, and you are the one carrying it. Read more
What we have recovered here
$5,400,000 Settlement on the eve of trial. Work truck rollover, wrongful death.
$3,850,000 Settlement. Pedestrian accident.
See how these were wonFuneral home negligence
A claim against the funeral home, crematory or cemetery itself, for what it did with somebody after they died.
What we have recovered here
$3,500,000 Jury verdict. A funeral home lost a family’s cremated remains, then forged documents to hide it.
See how these were wonWrongful death
The claim a surviving family brings under the Florida Wrongful Death Act, whatever caused the death.
What we have recovered here
$2,011,000 Broward County jury verdict. A father and grandfather died falling down a makeshift stairwell in an illegally split townhouse.
See how these were wonOn someone else’s property
Where the owner or occupier of a place is responsible for what happened on it.
- Slip and Fall One second on a wet floor can cost you a broken wrist, weeks off your feet, and a store that has already decided it was your own fault. Read more
- Premises Liability You were hurt or attacked on property somebody else was responsible for keeping safe, and it usually turns out they already knew. Read more
- Airbnb Injury You booked a place to stay for a few nights, and nobody had checked it before you walked in. Read more
- Negligent Security What happened to you had usually happened at that address before, to somebody else. Read more
- Dog Bite A bite takes seconds, and the surgery, the shots and the fear go on for months. Read more
What we have recovered here
$1,387,060.58 Broward County jury verdict. Propane tanks exploded behind a bakery, burning our client’s arms and face. The jury tried it for a week.
$300,000 Miami-Dade jury verdict. A restaurant ignored its own safety rules and broke an elderly client’s arm. The jury put it at 95 percent fault.
See how these were wonAt work
Workplace injuries, and the claims that sit alongside a compensation case.
Every claim here has its own page with the Florida law that governs it and the deadline that applies.
Medical and care
Harm caused by the people who were supposed to be treating or caring for you.
- Medical Malpractice You went in to be made better and came out worse, and the answers have been vague ever since. Read more
- Birth Injury You were told the delivery went normally, and it did not. Read more
- Nursing Home Abuse You are the one who noticed the bruise, and the facility is the one writing the report. Read more
Every claim here has its own page with the Florida law that governs it and the deadline that applies.
Traumatic brain injury
Concussions, skull fractures and the diffuse damage that shows up on how somebody thinks rather than on a scan.
Every claim here has its own page with the Florida law that governs it and the deadline that applies.
On the water
Boats, jet skis and other personal watercraft, and drownings in pools and open water.
- Boat Accident The boat or the jet ski is back on its trailer and the witnesses have gone home, and you are the one in a hospital bed. Read more
- Drowning Accident Florida loses more young children to drowning than any other state, and almost none of it happens in front of a lifeguard. Read more
- Swimming Pool Accident Nothing lasts longer than the few minutes when nobody was watching the pool. Read more
Every claim here has its own page with the Florida law that governs it and the deadline that applies.
Defective products
When the thing that hurt you was built, sold or recalled the way it was.
Every claim here has its own page with the Florida law that governs it and the deadline that applies.
Not sure which of these is yours? You do not have to work that out before you call. Tell a lawyer what happened and we will tell you what it is, what it is worth, and whether it is worth bringing. Free either way, and you pay us nothing unless we win.
If you already know what happened
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- Still deciding whether to claim What it costs, how long you have, and what an insurer is likely to do first.
- See what we have recovered Verdicts and settlements, including the matters tried to a jury rather than settled.
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