Motorcycle accident cases can be quite complex. You may have devastating injuries, financially crippling medical bills, and other serious damages, and may not be able to obtain adequate compensation through insurance. This means you may have to pursue compensation through a lawsuit. Even then, you may have trouble valuating your damages, like your pain and suffering.
Instead of managing your (or your loved one’s) motorcycle accident case on your own, leave it to a Florida motorcycle accident lawyer from our firm. Our lawyer will help you understand your case better, help you decide which legal action to file, and valuate and pursue your damages for you. You’ll be able to focus on your recovery and your family.
What Is My Florida Motorcycle Accident Case Worth?
One of the first things you or a lawyer will have to do in your case is evaluate your situation and your damages. This means evaluating the extent of your injuries and valuating your economic (financial) and non-economic losses. Valuating non-economic losses, like pain and suffering, means attributing monetary values to them even though the losses are difficult or impossible to measure.
After you or your lawyer has evaluated your damages, the next step is listing your damages for your case. Your damages may be any of the following:
- Your pain and suffering
- Your disability and the costs involved in managing it
- Losses attributed to your medical treatment and recovery
- Repair or replacement expenses for your personal property
- Lost income for you and your family due to your injuries preventing you from working
- The costs of household services and related services you can’t perform
- Wrongful death costs, like loss of companionship, if you lost a loved one in a motorcycle accident
Once you or your attorney has valuated and listed your damages, you should have an idea of what your case may be worth.
Insurance May Not Cover All Your Damages
Florida uses “no-fault” state laws to settle personal injury claims and property damage claims. What this means is that, regardless of who is at fault for an accident, you must file those claims through your Personal Injury Protection (PIP) insurance and your Property Damage Liability (PDL) insurance.
PIP covers your medical damages while PDL covers your property damages. However, PIP and PDL may not cover all of your damages. For instance, PIP won’t cover pain and suffering. Additionally, both kinds of insurance place limits on recovery amounts, like the amounts you can recover for your medical losses and vehicle-related losses.
If you have serious non-economic damages like severe physical pain or if any of your losses exceed the amounts insurance covers, you and your lawyer may want to file a lawsuit. This may help you recover more comprehensive compensation.
Please note that PIP wouldn’t be applicable if the motorcycle owner doesn’t carry insurance, which isn’t required on motorcycles in the state of Florida. Uninsured Motorist coverage has a statute of limitations in Florida of five years.
How Can a Motorcycle Accident Lawyer Help With My Compensation Claim?
There is a lot a motorcycle injury attorney from our firm can do for you and your case. Our attorney will manage your entire case for you, including all of the details, like:
- Valuating and listing your damages, including your non-economic damages
- Validating your damages and their valuations to insurers
- Finding evidence to support your case, like any witness photos or video footage of the accident or the accident scene
- Finding certain experts to corroborate your evidence, such as by offering a reconstruction of the accident
- Showing how the other party was negligent in your case and is therefore liable for your damages
- Settling your case with insurers
- Fighting for you in court if it will help you recover your due compensation
Filing a Lawsuit on Time
An additional detail your attorney will manage is the progression of your case. Your attorney will make sure your case progresses in a timely manner in order to meet the filing deadline for a lawsuit. Even if you’re not considering a suit, your lawyer can keep the option open.
Per Florida Statutes § 95.11, the filing deadline for a motorcycle accident/personal injury lawsuit in Florida is 4 years from the date of the accident, and the deadline for a wrongful death suit is 2 years from the date of the deceased person’s loss of life.
About Our Motorcycle Accident Attorneys in Florida
Since 1995, our firm has been serving Floridians, providing them with invaluable legal representation. Many of our cases have been motorcycle accident cases like yours, as well as other personal injury cases and many wrongful death cases. We’re active in other areas of law as well.
Today, we work with numerous experts in Florida, including scientists and accident reconstructionists. They provide important testimonies for our clients’ cases, which helps us establish vital details in these cases, leading to better outcomes. We’ve also hired personal injury attorneys with diverse backgrounds and different native languages, so your attorney may be able to assist you in Portuguese, Russian, Creole, Greek, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, or another language.
We’re confident we can accommodate you and help you with your case, especially since we’ve helped many others like you and have achieved outstanding results in our other personal injury cases.
About Working With a Lawyer On a Contingency Basis
Our lawyers can offer their services on a contingency basis if you like. With this arrangement, you won’t pay your lawyer anything at all unless they obtain compensation for you, and you’ll simply pay out of the compensation amount. This arrangement is very affordable for our clients.
We can make another kind of fee arrangement with you if you’d prefer that instead. We can tell you more during a free consultation with a member of our team.
Connect With GED Lawyers for a Florida Motorcycle Accident Lawyer
No matter how complex your (or your loved one’s) motorcycle accident case may be, our firm can manage it for you. Our lawyer will determine the value of your case and pursue that value even if it means litigating your case and fighting for you in court. For assistance, our lawyer will bring in medical experts, reconstructionists, and other experts for their testimonies.
To learn more about our legal team and for your free consultation and case review, contact GED Lawyers today.
