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Frequently Asked Questions
The Trinity of Car Injury cases: Every personal injury case has the "Trinity" that must be observed and applied in order for the client to recover monies to compensate them for their physical injuries. This Trinity consists of the following: causation, damages and what in the proverbial sense is called the deep pocket but practically all it means is that there is an insurance company or someone with money to pay the client for damages that they incurred.FAQ Categories:
Car Accidents
- Do I have to go to an examination under oath for my UM case against my own insurance company?
- Does a West Palm Beach car accident lawyer have a duty to protect a lien signed by his/her client?
What happens if I don't know whether I selected UM coverage when I purchased car insurance on the internet?
- What if a person buys a replacement vehicle, does not inform the insurance company and 21 days later gets into an West Palm beach car accident and the PIP carrier denies coverage?
- Once a West Palm Beach car accident lawsuit is filed and mediation has been set can an out-of-state defendant appear at mediation by telephone?
- I got in to a car accident, I do not have rental car coverage and I have no car becase my car is not drivable, what should I do?
- What is the person who hit me in the car accident has no insurance?
- What is the person who hit me in the car accident has no insurance?
- Wha happens if my PIP runs out and I put my accident bills through my health insurance?
- Are potential proceeds from a West Palm Beach car accident case considered a bankruptcy asset and therefore belong to the bankruptcy trustee?
Are children capable of being legally negligent?
- Can you get a court order requiring the defendant to produce medical records to prove his/her blood alcohol level in a West Palm Beach car accident lawsuit?
- Once a CRN (civil remedies notice) is filed, how long and to whom does the insurance company have to respond in a first party bad faith case?
- Does the Department of Revenue have a lien on proceeds from West Palm Beach car accdient lawsuit proceeds for unpaid child support?
- Can you request punitive damages in a West Palm Beach car accident case where the at-fault driver was intoxicated?
Can a defense attorney in a West Palm Beach car accident case get a court order preserving the plaintiff's body for an independent medical examination or IME before surgery?
- If you file a lawsuit in Palm Beach County, Florida where you reside and then move to another county during the lawsuit, can you be forced to appear in a deposition in Palm Beach County?
- If you are a passenger in your parents' car being driven by your boyfriend/girlfriend and another car hits you, can you get PIP benefits from your parents' policy or the other driver's policy?
- Is a scooter considered to be self-propelled or a personal passenger automobile?
- What are the remedies in West Palm Beach strict liability, negligence per se and prima facie evidence of negligence cases?
- What is forum non conveniens?
- Can the officers of a condo or homeowner's association be individually sued in a West Palm Beach personal injury case?
- What is diversity in a West Palm Beach car accident case?
- How many peremptory challenges is each party entitled to at trial in a West Palm Beach car accident case?
- Do you have to attend an IME in your West Palm Beach car accident case if you are no longer treating?
- What is a Florida Uninsured Motorist's (UM) carrier's responsibility as to providing the UM selection/rejection form when a claim is made for coverage in a West Palm Beach car accident case?
- Are awards to a decedent's estate in a West Palm Beach wrongful death case subject to creditors' liens?
Under Florida law, are dentists allowed to withhold medical records?
- Can adult children recover loss of parental companionship in a West Palm Beach wrongful death case?
- May parents of an adult deceased child recover damages for mental pain and suffering in a West Palm Beach medical malpractice case?
- What happens in a West Palm Beach wrongful death case if both spouses die within 30 days of each other as a result of the same West Palm Beach car accident?
- Q: What damages may a personal representative recover in a wrongful death case?
- If I get in to a West Palm Beach car accident, should I take pictures of my car? and if Yes, what should I do with the pictures?
- Is there a certain threshold that must be met in before I can recover under PIP, and if so, what is the threshold?
- Do I have to have my future medical costs mentioned when my attorney sends out the first demand letter in my Florida Auto accident case?
Is it ok for the jury to hear about me being angry if I feel I have been treated unjustly, or should we keep everything professional and not talk about our feelings.
- If I want to go to trial, but my lawyer tell me no should I listen or not?
- If I am here as an illegal alein and I get in to a car accident can I still recover for my damages?
- What happens if I get in to a car accident and then the police officer calls me to speak to me a few days after the crash?
- Q: What are the exceptions to the general rule that an owner of a vehicle provide the first layer of coverage when a permissive driver is involved?
- Q: What is required of a rental car company to successfully shift liability to a renter?
- Q: How much coverage is available to an injured victim if the rental car company successfully shifted liability to the renter?
Q: Can the rental car company provide less insurance for the renter of the car than for themselves?- Q: How can a tractor trailer truck have multiple people insuring it?
- Q: Can the owner of the trailer be held liable for injuries caused by the tractor driver?
- Q: Am I held responsible if I get into an accident with a rental car?
- Q: Can I be held responsible for damages if I was not the driver of my rental car?
- Q: What happens if the court cannot distinguish who is the more responsible party in an accident case?
- Q: Why do courts use the dangerous instrumentality and respondeat superior law?
- Q: What is an escape clause in an insurance policy?
Q: Can my insurance carrier exclude certain members of my household from the policy?- Should I ask my attorney to settle my case quickly?
- Should your lawyer object every single time there is a technical objection to be made at your Palm Beach County car accident trial?
- How long does the defendant in a Florida car accident have to answer the Complaint my attorney ahs filed?
- What happens if I get assaulted at a night club, and the police arrest me by mistake?
- What is I had a bleeding in my brain and now I have memory problem and headaches and slowness in my thoughts. I went to a doctor who did an MRI and I could not see anything, now what?
- Should I go to my mediation looking to settle my case?
- How many car crashes are there in Palm Beach per day?
- So you got in to a car accident, and the other guy got the ticket? does that mean that you automatically win your car accident case?
- Should your attorney go to the crash scene?
- Tell me the Do's and Dont's of car wrecks in Florida?
- What factors would cause my case to go to litigation?
- How does a lawsuit affect me?
- Is it possible that my case will settle before trial?
- What will I have to do if my case proceeds to a lawsuit?
- Does a lawsuit require a substantial amount of work from my attorney and, if so, will I be charged extra?
- Will I have to answer interrogatories?
- What are depositions?
- What if I do not want to have my deposition taken?
- Does the person or persons who caused my injuries have to be deposed also?
- How do I prepare for a deposition?
- Why are depositions so important?
- When will the trial take place?
- How much notice will I get before trial?
- What happens in a trial?
- What should I remember in order to be the best possible witness?
- If we win, how long does it take to receive the money?
- What happens if we lose?
- If we lose, is it still possible to get a settlement?
- What is the most important thing for me to do after my injury?
- How do I pay my medical bills?
- Will the doctors, hospitals and other medical facilities wait for payment if I am unable to pay my bills as they are incurred?
- How does my attorney make certain that the physician and medical facilities will get paid?
- Why won't the insurance company for the person or company who caused my injuries automatically pay my medical bills as they occur?
- How do I keep track of all my bills?
- How will my attorney handle my case?
- How can I help my attorney with my case?
- Why do I have to sign so many forms?
- How will my attorney be paid and what is a contingent fee agreement?
- What other costs will there be in addition to the attorneys' fees?
- Are the attorneys' disbursements and costs also contingent and if not, do they
- What will the insurance company for the person, persons or company who caused my injury do about my claim?
- How does the insurance company put a value on my case?
- Should I communicate with or contact the insurance company for the person who caused my injuries?
- May I contact my own insurance company?
- Will the insurance company for the person who caused my injuries dispute my claim?
- What can I do to convince the insurance company that my claim is valid?
- What happens to the person, persons or company who caused my injury?
- What happens to the person who caused my injury if the case does not settle?
- What if the tortfeasor was untruthful or inaccurate about how the incident happened?
- May I contact the person or persons who are responsible for my injuries?
- When will my case settle?
- How much is my case worth?
- Who determines the settlement value of my case?
- What steps will be taken to settle my case?
- Will the insurance carrier pay the demand figure in my attorney's request for settlement?
- How long does it take to complete settlement after the first letter of demand?
- Because the insurance company will undercut my attorney's request for settlement, why not request a very large sum to begin with?
- After the insurance company and my attorney agree upon settlement, how long will it take to get my money?
- What has to be done before I get the money that is due me from the settlement?
- After attorneys' fees, medical bills, liens, and costs, will there be anything left for me?
- What happens if the insurance company does not meet our settlement range and the case does not settle?
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Car Accidents
- Do I have to go to an examination under oath for my UM case against my own insurance company?
- Does a West Palm Beach car accident lawyer have a duty to protect a lien signed by his/her client?
What happens if I don't know whether I selected UM coverage when I purchased car insurance on the internet?