Motor vehicle accident cases are too frequent to count anymore. Car accidents are all too often characterized by tremendous suffering and far reaching physical, economic/financial and emotionally painful consequences. Physical injuries can leave you, or your family members, in excruciating pain, suffering disability and unemployment. To add insult to injury, your insurance company is no doubt more interested in its own pecuniary or financial interest, than your recovery.
At Castellano Legal, in Fort Lauderdale, FL, we are dedicated to representing victims who have been injured in car accidents. Our experienced Ft. Lauderdale personal injury lawyers help auto accident victims obtain necessary compensation that will aid in their recovery, and help them to move on with their lives.
Auto Insurance Companies
Our Fort Lauderdale car accident attorneys have gained a thorough knowledge of local and national insurance companies, earning the necessary experiential wisdom over the years. Years of experience in dealing with auto insurance companies will immediately inure to your family’s benefit in auto accident cases and personal injury cases. This thorough and helpful knowledge of — and experience with our local auto insurance companies, virtually compels us to maximize the available recovery for each client. Other insurance coverage, including automobile policies on other vehicles, underinsured/uninsured (“UM”) motorist coverage, medical payment coverage, and personal injury protection (PIP) benefits, may also be available to an injured person.
Talk to Fort Lauderdale Car Accidents Lawyer John Castellano and Know your Rights!
You will need quick and proactive, aggressive legal representation as soon as possible after your motor vehicle accident. Our Fort Lauderdale personal injury attorneys at Castellano Legal are available to assist you immediately following your accident; as you will observe and personally experience. Florida auto accident cases can be much more complicated than initially thought. Sadly enough, the injured party (the person who is not at fault in this example) is often unaware of certain rights they otherwise enjoy; including the right to be fully reimbursed for their economic and consequential damages.
Stacked Insurance Policy Claims
The ‘stacking’ of insurance coverages on each vehicle insured under a policy can significantly increase the value of a claim — assuming that the insured person chose and paid for ‘stacking’ as an option under their policy. Inasmuch as the applicable coverage for each insured vehicle, is then “stacked”; meaning, added up on top of the coverage applicable to each and every other listed vehicle insured under the policy.
The following reimbursements are available under stacked insurance policies: rental car expense or reimbursement, medical expenses, lost wages, and pain and suffering in the past and future.
Car Accident Statistics
Every 10 seconds, someone in the USA is involved in a motor vehicle accident, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Negligence
Florida car accident cases are known as Florida auto accident liability cases, or auto accident personal injury liability cases. Yet these cases are only fruitful or victorious for the injured party IF the negligence of the other driver was the LEGAL cause — or what they call the ‘proximate cause’ of the accident.
These cases are typically governed by the Florida laws of “foreseeability” and “negligence” which essentially state that someone operating an automobile must exercise “reasonable care under the circumstances,” and “guard against risks that are foreseeable under the circumstances,” employing “that standard of care which the reasonably prudent person would have exercised under the same or similar circumstances.”
Fort Lauderdale DUI Victims Attorney
It is the law that all drivers must exercise “reasonable care under the circumstances,” while operating a motor vehicle. A failure to do this is considered negligence. When that negligence is caused by an intoxicated driver, you will unquestionably need legal representation.
Do Not Let Auto Insurance Companies Pressure You
Following a motor vehicle accident involving a drunk driver, the insurance company will pressure you for a quick and inexpensive settlement. Before providing them any information or signing any documents, contact Fort Lauderdale DUI attorney John M. Castellano & Associates, P.A.
Drunk Driving Victims
If you are the victim in a drunk driving DUI accident, you are entitled to compensation for the injuries that you suffered because of the impaired and negligent driver’s actions. These include:
- Rental car expense or reimbursement;
- Medical expenses;
- Lost wages;
- Pain and suffering;
- Your rights to medical care and punitive damages.
Our Fort Lauderdale DUI Attorney’s main priority in representing victims injured in drunk driving accidents is to get the victim back to the condition they were in prior to the accident. Someone driving under the influence is operating a vehicle negligently and illegally. As the DUI accident victim, you are entitled to punitive damages above and beyond the other damages you suffered from the DUI accident.
Our Ft Lauderdale DUI lawyers regularly assist drunk driving victims in getting the proper legal documentation to assist in the financial recovery for their injuries as soon as possible. For more information about your rights after suffering a DUI-related injury in Florida, or to schedule an appointment with a Ft. Lauderdale personal injury lawyer, please contact us.
These are DUI cases in Cocoa Beach and Brevard County Florida — and though I’m a Ft. Lauderdale criminal defense lawyer, we can certainly benefit from many of these same arguments and attacks against the breathalyzer and intoxilyzer machines to help our own local clients. You gotta love the always lovable, uncommonly clever criminal defense lawyers.
Seek the Assistance of Fort Lauderdale Personal Injury Attorney John Castellano First
“Failing to use reasonable care is considered negligence, and a person who negligently operates a motor vehicle will be required to pay for any and all “consequential” damages that result from their negligent conduct; but again, this is true ONLY if their negligence is the legal or proximate cause of the accident and the injuries to the injured parties — and as for the actual “damages,” which often translates to “compensation,” this will include any economic or financial loss to the injured or “damaged” parties, along with damages and compensation for pain and suffering, medical bills, limitations and disabilities then experienced by the injured parties — or anything consequential and debilitating to the injured or damaged person or property that is caused by the negligent driver, for example.” — Florida Personal Injury lawyer John Castellano
Do not discuss the facts of your case or sign any documents until you contact a Florida personal injury lawyer at Castellano Legal.
“Remember, YOU as the injured party (i.e., the plaintiff) are required by law to prove that the negligence — meaning the careless or “negligent” conduct of the defendant, caused the accident and your resultant injuries. We know how to do this, and you need this help. We are well aware, that after an auto accident, the insurance companies are quick put their own financial interests in front of yours — and your family’s. It’s no secret that they often try to get a quick, cheap settlement, or deny the claim altogether. Please, for your family’s sake, don’t let auto insurance companies do this to you or your family. Call me at (954)766-8810 and I will advise you on what is best for you and your family, doing all I can to help.” — Ft. Lauderdale Personal Injury Lawyer, John Castellano
I am always there for you and your family. Please call today!
John Castellano
Castellano Legal
1112 S.E. 3rd Ave.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316
