St. Lucie County is fast becoming a major city on the east coast of Florida with its central location and U.S. News & World Report recently named us one of the best places to live in America.
Our personal injury attorneys in St. Lucie County are here to help people and families who have been injured by the negligence of another. Our office is available 24 hours a day for anything you may need. If you have had an auto accident, slip and fall injury, victim of a violent crime, trucking accident drowning injury, wrongful death, workers compensation injury, medical mal practice traumatic brain injury, roll over accident, air bag eye or facial injury, dog bite, boating accident, lack of security injury, explosion or burn injury we are the ones to call. For over 23 years, our attorneys have served injured clients in Martin St. Lucie and Indian River Countyand throughout florida. Great service and exceptional results
If you have been injured in a car accident, truck accident, slip and fall, dog bite attack, bicycle accident, boat accident, construction accident, motorcycle accident, pedestrian accident, swimming pool accident, or if a loved one has suffered from a brain injury or death from an accident in Port St. Lucie, our lawyers are here to help you. Let us fight for your right to receive fair compensation for your injury. We have dealt with insurance companies and corporate lawyers for decades, so we know the best tactics to get you every monetary compensation you deserve.
You can receive a free, no-obligation consultation regarding your potential case when you speak with our team of St. Lucie County Injury Attorney Abogado Juan Cordero Contact us online or call 772.227.0577 to schedule your free case review today.
Damages You Might Be Entitled to after a Personal Injury
Your life and livelihood should not have to be disrupted by the costs of your personal injury. Often injury victims receive either extremely low settlement offers or no settlement offer whatsoever to compensate them for costs that resulted from a negligent individual.
On average an injured person has very little understanding of what an injury is worth. Many factors are used to calculate the amount. Our office has joined forces with the top experts in the personal injury field to achieve the highest possible settlement available to our clients. Our expert doctors conduct a comprehensive evaluation to insure all injuries are documented, what residual injuries will continue to remain long past the end of the initial treatment and accurately forecast what potential treatment will be needed. In addition. they will also calculate how much those medical treatments will cost. Our expert economist will calculate our injured client's loss wages past present and future. Moreover, they also evaluate if the person will need assistance in the home to help with daily chores because of physical limitations from injuries suffered in the accident.
A complete personal injury claim will account for as many of these damages as possible so that victims are not stuck paying for the costs of an injury that was no fault of their own. An experienced personal injury lawyer in St. Lucie County can help you estimate the full amount of these costs—past and future—potentially preventing a situation where you accept a low settlement only to realize how little it actually was.
Let us help you get the full damages for your injury from the negligent party. Our experience with the claims process and civil trial litigation help you achieve great results
St. Lucie County personal injury lawyer attorney will be at your service, representing you, filing documents on your behalf, gathering evidence, and taking your case all the way to court, if need be. With our help, you can confidently file your claim and assess all of your predicted damages, not just a fraction.
Reach out to experienced personal injury attorney Juan Cordero today. Your first appointment is always free.
Personal Injury Statistics for St. Lucie, County Florida
St. Lucie County residents can get injured in any number of common ways. Among them, motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of injury and the third-highest cause of accidental death in Florida. For those lucky enough to survive their accident injuries, they can expect a median hospital stay of four days and a median admitting a charge of over $80,000.
Florida saw nearly 4,000 fatal accidents in 2020 leading to 3,200 deaths. An estimated 700 of these deaths involved intoxicated drivers over the legal blood alcohol limit (BAC).
In St. Lucie County, where Port St. Lucie is located,6,062 crashes occurred in 2020 These accidents resulted in 3,200 injuries and 42 tragic deaths. The county’s three-year average for crashes sits slightly lower at 4,734.
Other common causes of non-fatal injury in Florida, according to Florida Health statistics, include:
1. Falls, including slip and falls—73000
2. Drug overdose—12000
3. Pedestrian and bicycle accidents—1,300
4. Gunshots—600
5. Animal bites—149
6. Drowning—95
As you can see, accidents happen all the time in Port St. Lucie, and they can have dire consequences. When someone sustains major injuries, they can be left handling massive medical bills—even if they have health insurance.
Florida’s PIP minimums mean that you may have as little as $10,000 in car insurance available to cover these bills, and this amount is only available if you are involved in a motor vehicle-related accident. As for personal health insurance, it still has co-pays and uncovered expenses that add up.
Because of these costs, many car accident injury victims explore their options for filing a third-party bodily injury liability (BIL) claim against any allegedly at-fault drivers.
Florida Negligence and Liability Laws that May Apply to Your Port St. Lucie Accident
Any time you have a serious injury after an accident in Florida, you could be eligible to file a personal injury claim with an at-fault individual’s liability insurance policy. To do so, you must first prove that your injury meets the minimum standard of severity. Such injuries include:
• Bone fractures
• Significant disfigurement
• Permanent limited use of an appendage or bodily organ
• Significant temporary limitation of a major body system or function
• Substantially full disability for at least 90 days
To be eligible to make a liability claim, you will need to convincingly show that another driver or party was responsible and thereby liable for your accident. The most common method is to prove that this individual was negligent, thereby, acting contrary to how a “reasonable person” might have exercised “ordinary care” to avoid the incident from happening.
In a car accident, negligence could take the form of someone speeding, driving while intoxicated, or ignoring driving laws. If you were injured on someone’s property, such as in a slip and fall accident, you will have to show that the business or tenant failed to exercise reasonable care to identify the problem, correct it, or at least notify someone that the danger existed.
Furthermore, Florida’s comparative negligence laws mean that your injury claim could be reduced if at-fault parties successfully argue that you were somehow partially responsible for your own injuries because of negligence.
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