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Key Factors

Pedestrian Accidents

In Florida, pedestrians, motor vehicle drivers, motorcyclists and bicyclists have equal rights to use the roadway and are required to exercise reasonable care while walking or driving. Florida established specific laws to protect and provide for victims of pedestrian accidents.

Injured pedestrians, just like car accident victims, have the right under the Florida law to pursue personal injury claims to receive compensation for their damages.

The amount of settlement in a pedestrian accident turns on the following four factors:

Insurance Coverage

A personal injury demand for settlement is made against the at-fault driver’s bodily injury coverage (BI), or if there is no BI coverage or the BI coverage is inadequate, against the claimant’s uninsured motorist coverage (UM). If there is no BI and no UM coverage, the claimant may not be able to recover for his/her damages, other than the benefits paid under Florida No-Fault insurance. See Florida Auto Insurance Overview.

Pedestrians are covered under the Florida No Fault Law when hit by a motor vehicle. In fact, pedestrians may qualify for the PIP benefits even if there was no contact between the pedestrian and the vehicle, such as when a pedestrian is injured after having to jump out of the way of a vehicle that was driving carelessly.

The PIP benefits may be paid through the pedestrian’s own auto insurance policy, through a pedestrian’s resident relative’s auto policy, or through the at fault driver’s auto insurance.

Liability

The other driver must be at fault, or at least more than 50% at fault, for the claimant to seek compensation. Under Florida’s modified comparative negligence standard, any party found to be greater than 50 percent at fault for his/her own damages may not recover any damages. In comparative liability cases, the partially-at-fault party’s damages are limited by the percentage of his/her own fault. See Can I make a personal injury claim if I am partially at fault?

Pedestrians must obey all traffic control devices and must walk on sidewalks or if there is no sidewalk, on the shoulder on the left side of the roadway facing traffic.

Failure to comply with Florida pedestrian safety statutes could be used to charge the pedestrians with comparative fault reducing the amount of recoverable damages or barring recovery altogether.

Causation

The injured person must prove that but for the accident, the injuries would not have happened.

Pedestrian accidents often involve a direct contact with the car and due to the significant forces of impact involved in such accident, causation may not be an issue.

In minor impact cases, it may be more difficult to establish causation of injuries, especially when at issue is an aggravation of a pre-existing medical condition. Also, in cases with pre-existing medical conditions, the claimant can only recover for the extent of the aggravation of the prior injury, not the entire condition.

Damages

A substantial portion of a personal injury settlement comes from damages for pain and suffering. In fact, the greater the pain and suffering damages, the higher the claimant’s net settlement proceeds will be. Net settlement proceeds is the amount the claimant walk away with after payment of attorney fees and costs and medical expenses. To be entitled to pain and suffering damages, the claimant must prove that his/her injuries are permanent. See What damages can you recover in a personal injury case?

Although pedestrians are covered under the PIP law, unlike car accident victims, they are not required to prove that they suffered a permanent injury to be able to recover future medical care and pain and suffering damages.

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What Makes Us Different

In personal injury cases, paying more in attorney fees will not result in more money to the client. Attorneys take a percentage of gross settlement for fees and costs. Then, after paying outstanding medical bills, what’s left is the client’s net settlement proceeds. So, the less you pay in attorney fees, the more money you end up with in your pocket.

The goal of the insurance companies is to pay as little as possible. Personal injury attorneys have no “secret sauce” to make an insurance company pay more than the value of the case. Because personal injury cases are evidence-based, it for the most part, all comes down to proper and thorough documentation of liability, causation and damages.

However, personal injury attorneys are not alike. Some attorneys are passive and take a lackadaisical approach in their cases. They will not go an extra mile for their client. Once they sign up a client, they are entitled to their 33%, even when a “settles itself,” such as in cases with clear liability, great causation and damages. Some attorneys are there only for a client sign up. Once they sign up the client, their active involvement in the case for the most part is done and the handling of the case is passed onto to secretaries and paralegals.

Having started my career as a receptionist, moving up to a paralegal and ultimately becoming a lawyer, I’ve worked with and/or supervised at least a dozen of secretaries/paralegals over the past 17 years, and let me tell you – they can be a mess! My most stressful days usually involved dealing with poor work ethnics and/or utter incompetence of the secretaries. Very often I ended up doing their work, which was sometimes easier and quicker. I’ve also had the pleasure working with excellent paralegals. However, those are hard to find since attorneys hold on to them with iron claws.

I take a proactive approach in personal injury cases and I work all cases to their maximum potential using all available tools to thoroughly document and build up a case. I work with clients hand-in-hand and walk them through every step of the process. I guide them through the claim process to obtain both maximum medical and monetary recovery.

We focus on maximizing the value of each case.

We are a small personal injury firm focusing on quality over quantity. We are able to give personalized and maximum attention to each client and each case. Unlike some firms, we are not all about “high volume” and “quick turnover” to make profit or meet a quota. Our goal is to maximize the value of each case and to maximize our clients’ net recovery.

We spend the necessary time building your case, to document your injuries and to engage in back and forth negotiations with the insurance company for as long as it is necessary to fully compensate you for your damages. We will exhaust all available resources and remedies to secure a fair settlement before we recommend to file suit. Litigation is lengthy, expensive, stressful, and does not always result in a higher settlement or higher net settlement proceeds to a client.

We offer reduced contingency fees of 25% to maximize our clients’ net settlement proceeds.

We have reduced our contingency attorney fees to 25% in all cases. This enables our clients to retain more money from their settlement and helps avoid situations where the attorney gets paid more than the injured client.

In Florida, personal injury cases are handled on a contingency basis, which means that attorneys get a percentage of the client’s settlement. In most cases, personal injury attorneys take 33-40% of the gross settlement amount or a court award. Very often, this results in a client walking away with less than the attorney. For example, if a case settles pre-suit for policy limits of $10,000, a personal injury attorney will take a contractual 33% from the settlement amount, or $3,333.33, and any costs the attorney advanced. After payment of outstanding medical bills from the remainder the settlement funds, there is often less than $3,333.00 left for the client as their net settlement proceeds. So, the client may get less than what the attorney was paid.

We are able to reduce our contingency fees from 33-40% to 25% in all cases because we have low overhead expenses and because we focus on maximizing the value of each case, rather than achieving a quick settlement. After all, the higher the settlement, the higher the attorney fee, even at a reduced 25% rate, and the client is fairly compensated. And as a saying goes, “A happy client is a return client.”

Our clients focus on treatment. We do heavy lifting.

Accidents can completely overwhelm and disrupt your life. We take the burden off our clients’ shoulders by handling all aspects of their personal injury claim so that they can focus on treatment and medical recovery. We handle our clients’ property damage claim to ensure that they receive fair replacement value for their vehicle while maintaining transportation. We ensure that the ongoing wage loss, out-of-pocket medical and travel expenses are promptly submitted against any available insurance benefits. We build all personal injury cases from the ground up by gathering the necessary evidence to meet the burden of proof to be entitled to compensation.

We handle most types of personal injury cases- car accidents, motorcycle accident, trucking accidents, bicycle accidents, ATV accidents, pedestrian accidents, slip and fall, premises liability, dog bites, etc. In all types of personal injury cases, the insurance company’s goal is to pay you as little as possible. Having an experienced attorney representing you in your injury claim can help you recover the maximum value of your claim because the attorney can protect you against the insurance company’s bad faith claim processing and settlement, and build and strengthen your injury claim through the required evidence.

From the onset of representation, we promptly investigate the case to establish liability and all sources of available insurance coverage. We gather medical documentation about our clients’ injuries, causation, and damages and secure any necessary experts to support the damages. Finally, we gather any other supporting documentation to substantiate the demand for settlement.

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