Category: Personal Injury

The Florida Tort Reform Bill 837 shortens the statute of limitations for injury cases, shifts to a modified comparative fault system, and introduces new standards for determining medical damages. It also lowers the liability of property owners in premises liability cases and creates loopholes for insurance companies to offer low settlements.

As of 2023, the statute of limitations for personal injury claims in Florida has undergone an update, shortening it from four years to two years from the time of the injury. The statute of limitations gives you a limited amount of time to file a claim or lawsuit against liable parties that caused a personal injury.

Various factors influence how much a slip and fall is worth in Palm Harbor. There are no average settlement amounts in slip and fall claims or other types of personal injury and premises liability cases.

In personal injury law, there are four types of negligence: gross negligence, contributory negligence, comparative negligence, and vicarious negligence. Plaintiffs in personal injury cases rely on the legal principle of negligence to establish fault and hold the other party liable for causing the accident and subsequent damages.

How does PIP coverage work in Florida? Personal injury protection, or PIP, is the first part of the compensation process in a car accident. To legally operate a motor vehicle, every registered vehicle owner must retain the state’s minimum coverage, and that includes a PIP policy. The amount a victim is awarded through PIP is […]

Millions of Americans and the thousands of families impacted by the Camp Lejeune Water Crisis have followed the Camp Lejeune Lawsuit, one of the most well-known legal cases in the country. If they served, worked, or resided at Camp Lejeune between 1953 and 1987, they may have been exposed to contaminated drinking water. This includes […]