Category : car Accident

If you sustained devastating injuries in a car wreck due to another person’s intentional, reckless, or negligent actions, you may recover compensation. However, determining what damages you can pursue and how much you will recover following your accident involves a complex process, especially when valuing your pain and suffering damages. To help you understand this process and provide you with the clarity you need, we prepared this blog. In it, we will go over everything...

Motor vehicle accidents result in devastating consequences, including significant property damage and debilitating injuries that can forever impact a victim and their family physically, emotionally, mentally, and financially. Yet, while you may deserve compensation for the damages you suffered in the accident, getting paid is not easy as you may expect. It can end up leaving you overwhelmed by the entire ordeal. To better help you understand how obtaining financial damages works following a car...

Although any accident can result in catastrophic injuries, rollover crashes are among the most dangerous accidents, accounting for 16 percent of occupant deaths in cars, 30 percent of occupant deaths in pickups, and 29 percent of occupant deaths in SUVs, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). However, if you suffered harm or lost a loved one in a car rollover accident due to the wrongful actions of another person, you should not...

Places like Tampa see plenty of traffic violations. Some of those offenses lead to car crashes. The growing population increases the potential of a collision. A traumatic event can change a person’s life in seconds. They experience multiple physical and mental effects, and the damage can last for years. One question a victim might consider is why exactly a car accident occurred. Motor vehicle crashes happen for several reasons, and some causes are more common...

Sometimes, you may not even see a sideswipe collision coming. One moment, you think a vehicle has positioned itself next to you, waiting for you to pass by before changing lanes or merging. The next moment, the vehicle slips into your lane, causing severe damage to your vehicle and, in many cases, serious injury to the occupants in that vehicle. You may have the right to pursue compensation for your injuries following a sideswipe collision...

Driving for long periods can make people feel stressed and exhausted. Another motorist might do something to make a person annoyed. The frustration of a driver increases the risk of a road rage incident. Road rage can lead to dangerous actions, and people can get hurt. In Tampa, drivers face the risk of aggressive motorists each time they get onto the road. A guilty driver receives multiple penalties as a result of their behavior. Furthermore,...

No matter what road you travel in Tampa, be it I-275 or a side street in Seminole Heights, you always risk crossing paths with a dangerously drowsy car driver. Unlike some other dangerous driving behaviors, like drunk driving or texting behind the wheel, fatigued driving often happens without the drivers themselves or others with whom they share the road realizing it’s happening. But a Tampa car driver’s excessive fatigue can have a devastating and tragic...

A car accident is always a stressful and overwhelming event. But those feelings are compounded if the other driver is at fault. What legal rights do you have? Who will pay for your medical bills and car repairs? And, do you need an attorney? Talk to an Attorney Learn more about what to do after a car accident that is not your fault. Immediate steps to take after a Tampa car crash After any motor...

The U.S. has some of the busiest roads, with more vehicles than licensed drivers. Though this does not justify the high rate of road accidents, crashes frequently happen. No one gets behind the wheel anticipating an accident, and no matter how careful you are, you cannot regulate the actions of the other motorists. All it takes is a slight mistake, such as a driver getting distracted by a text message, and in a split second,...

If you had a car accident and your claim has failed to settle, necessitating a lawsuit, the legal proceedings may involve a deposition. That is, the defendant’s attorney might depose you or your witnesses. Your lawyer may also depose the defendant or their witnesses. Normally, deposition is one discovery method in a car accident lawsuit others include requests for document production, admissions, and interrogatories. Discovery happens at the initial stages and may or may not...