Florida Car Accident Law and What You Should Know About PIP Benefits Before Filing a Lawsuit

Florida law requires that you use your own PIP or personal injury protection benefits first and have permanent injury before you can file a lawsuit in your Jupter, Florida car accident case.  The first $10,000 of your bodily injury damage is paid by your own PIP coverage.  You must also have significant and permanent loss of an important bodily function (like a herniated disc in your back) or permanent injury within a reasonable degree of medical probability (other than  scarring or disfigurement), scarring or disfigurement, or death.  You may recover damages sustained in your Palm Beach County car crash case against the owner, registrant,operator, or occupant of a motor vehicle or and organization responsible for his/her acts or omissions if you have any of the following: pain, suffering, mental anguish, inconvenience for bodily injury, sickness or disease if the injury or disease as outlined above results in significant loss of an importatn bodily function, permanent injury within a reasonable degreeof medical probability other than scarring and disfigurement, scarring and disfigurement, or death.