Personal Injury.
Representing individuals injured by the negligence of others — drivers, operators, employers, and the insurers who stand behind them — in serious auto, motorcycle, and truck accidents.
A serious accident is not a paperwork problem. It is a medical problem, a financial problem, and very often a family problem, and the legal claim arrives in the middle of all three. The firm represents people in that position — individuals and families whose lives have been disrupted by another party's negligence — in Florida circuit court, federal district court, and, where appropriate, pre-suit negotiation with the carriers.
Personal injury work demands a different posture than the firm's commercial practice, but the underlying discipline is the same. Every matter is evaluated for trial from the first conversation.
Most matters resolve before trial, as they should, once the carrier understands the case has been built to be tried. But the firm prepares every matter as if it will be tried. The firm does not run a settlement mill. It does not advertise volume. It takes selected cases and works them.
When the firm accepts a matter, it stays with the matter through resolution. Personal injury engagements are accepted selectively. The firm represents a limited number of injured individuals at any time, with the same approach applied to its commercial matters.
Automobile & SUV accidents.
Rear-end, intersection, lane-change, and head-on collisions involving private passenger vehicles, including claims against negligent drivers and their liability carriers.
Motorcycle accidents.
Including cases complicated by helmet-use disputes, lane-positioning arguments, and the bias motorcyclists routinely face from adjusters and juries.
Commercial truck & tractor-trailer collisions.
Claims against trucking companies and their carriers under federal motor-carrier regulations, including driver-hours, maintenance, and hiring-and-retention theories.
Serious-injury & catastrophic-injury matters.
Traumatic brain injury, spinal injury, surgical intervention, permanent impairment, and other injuries warranting full-scope litigation rather than pre-suit settlement.
Personal injury matters are accepted on a contingency-fee basis in accordance with Rule 4-1.5(f) of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar. The client pays no legal fees and advances no costs at the outset of the engagement.
The firm's fee is a percentage of the recovery and is paid from the recovery. Costs of investigation, expert witnesses, and litigation are advanced by the firm and reimbursed from the recovery. If there is no recovery, the client owes the firm nothing — no fee, no costs.
The specific terms of the contingency arrangement, including the percentage and the treatment of costs, are set out in a written contingency-fee agreement executed at the start of the engagement, as required by Florida law.