An Overview of the Florida 14 Day Accident Law The Florida 14-day accident law requires injured victims to seek medical care within 14 days of a car accident in order to receive Personal Injury Protection (PIP) benefits. PIP is a form of car insurance that covers some of your medical expenses and other damages such...
If you were recently injured in a car accident in Okaloosa County, you will need to get a copy of the crash report as soon as possible. However, you might not know how to get a copy. Fortunately, Okaloosa County accident reports are easy to get when you know where to look. The car accident...
Is Florida a No-Fault State? What Does This Mean? Is Florida a No-Fault State? Short answer: Yes. Florida requires that automobile drivers carry certain types of insurance to provide coverage for injuries and costs resulting from car accidents. The insurance requirements cover minor medical, property, and other costs sustained from a car crash and help...
Ways to Obtain a Pensacola Accident Report After an accident, an officer who responded to the scene will fill out an accident report that details what happened. Even though there is a lot to deal with in the aftermath of a crash, obtaining a copy of your accident report is critical not only to confirm...
Car accidents are never an easy experience, but the situation can become much more complicated if the driver that hits you is uninsured. If you are hit by an uninsured driver in Florida, do you know what your options are? At the law office of Emmanuel Sheppard & Condon our highly skilled personal injury attorneys...
Advice from Personal Injury Attorney, Ben Shell. I would like to take a minute to discuss something that I believe to be the most important provision of your automobile policy. What I’m talking about is uninsured motorist coverage or underinsured motorist coverage (UM). Uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage provides a valuable source of recovery after...
Advice from Personal Injury Attorney, Ben Shell. As most of us know, in Florida there is a law that requires all drivers and passengers to wear a seat belt. What a lot of people don’t know is how the failure to wear a seat belt could affect your personal injury claim if you have been...
The new Florida Personal Injury Protection (PIP) law that went into effect in January of 2013 has been criticized for benefiting insurance companies at the expense of injured individuals. According to the new law, the amount of money paid out to an injured individual can be affected by whether or not the injury qualifies as...
Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist (UM) coverage covers you when you are not at fault for a crash and the other driver does not have any liability coverage or not enough to compensate you for your personal injury and/or losses. Your UM coverage “steps in the shoes” of the other driver’s insurance company and provides additional personal injury...
