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Car Accidents
Car crashes in Florida can cause devastating injuries, losses, and lifelong consequences.
From low-speed collisions to highway pileups, negligent drivers can leave victims facing painful injuries, mounting medical bills, vehicle damage, and time away from work throughout Fort Lauderdale and the rest of Florida.
Were You Injured in a Motor Vehicle Accident?
How Car Crashes Cause Injuries?
Car accidents can cause a wide range of injuries, from soft tissue damage to broken bones and life-threatening trauma for victims.
Severity often depends on vehicle speed, collision type, safety features, and whether occupants were properly restrained. Even crashes that appear minor may result in herniated discs, internal injuries, or chronic pain requiring ongoing medical treatment, particularly when commercial trucks or multiple vehicles are involved. These injuries can disrupt work, family responsibilities, independence, and overall quality of life for years.
Common Car Accident Injuries in Florida
- Traumatic brain injuries, including concussions and other TBIs that cause headaches, memory problems, cognitive changes, and long-term disability.
- Spinal cord injuries such as paraplegia or quadriplegia, and severe neck or back trauma requiring fusion surgery.
- Fractures of arms, legs, ribs, or pelvis, crush injuries, and compression fractures that make daily activities extremely painful.
- Internal organ damage and internal bleeding requiring emergency surgery, transfusions, intensive care, and close, ongoing medical monitoring.
- Joint injuries to knees or shoulders, including ligament tears, meniscus damage, rotator cuff tears, and biceps tendon avulsions.
- Loss of limbs or amputations, partial or total blindness, or loss of senses such as hearing or smell.
- Burn injuries requiring skin grafts, reproductive injuries affecting fertility, emotional trauma, PTSD, or wrongful death damages.
Negligence Per Se in Florida
Statutory traffic violations that can prove driver negligence
- Speeding, tailgating, or reckless driving
- Ignoring red lights or stop signs
Other common statutory violations
- Failing to yield required right of way
- Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs
- Texting, browsing, or using handheld phones while driving
- Improper lane changes or unsafe highway merging
- Following too closely behind slower moving vehicles
- Failing to maintain working lights, brakes, or signals
What To Do After A Car Accident?
These steps help protect evidence, health, and future claims.
- Seek medical care
- Call law enforcement
- Exchange driver information
- Notify your insurer
- Photograph crash scene
- Collect witness contacts
- Contact accident lawyer
- Track all expenses
How to Prove a Car Accident Case in Florida?
Car accident claims require proving negligence, causation, and damages using evidence from drivers, employers, manufacturers, and maintenance providers.
Identify duty
Show defendant owed a legal duty of care.
Prove breach
Demonstrate duty was breached by unsafe driving conduct.
Establish causation
Connect the breach directly to your crash injuries.
Document damages
Prove medical bills, wage loss, and suffering.
Use negligence per se
Apply traffic statute violations as strong liability shortcuts.
Use regulatory violations
Apply federal regulations to show trucking negligence.
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We’ll handle insurers and protect your compensation through every stage of the process.
Partially At Fault For A Florida Crash?
Florida’s modified comparative negligence rule
You may still be entitled to recover compensation if you were partially at fault for the car accident resulting in injuries, lost wages and medical bills. Florida follows a modified comparative negligence rule for car crashes.
Under Florida Statutes Section 768.81, you may still recover compensation as long as your fault does not exceed fifty percent. When you share fault, any award is reduced by your percentage. For example, thirty percent fault on one hundred thousand dollars yields seventy thousand.
Insurance companies shift blame onto drivers, arguing you were speeding, distracted, or could have avoided the crash, while downplaying injuries, lost wages, and medical bills. An experienced Fort Lauderdale car accident lawyer counters these tactics.
Damages You Can Recover After A Florida Car Accident
Economic Damages
Economic damages compensate you for financial losses such as medical bills, lost income, property damage, and long-term care needs.
- Medical Expenses
Hospital visits, surgery, medications, rehabilitation, follow-up appointments, and future treatment reasonably related to your car accident injuries. - Lost income
Wages missed while recovering, reduced hours, diminished earning capacity, and lost employment benefits due to crash-related disabilities. - Other financial losses
Property damage, transportation costs, household help, childcare, and other out-of-pocket expenses connected to the collision.
Non-Economic Damages
Non-economic damages address pain, emotional suffering, and lifestyle changes caused by your injuries, which do not have fixed price tags.
- Pain and suffering
- Emotional distress
- Mental anguish
- Loss of enjoyment
- Disfigurement or scarring
- Loss of consortium
Frequently Asked Questions About Fort Lauderdale Car Accident Claims
Car accident victims often have questions about legal fees, where to file a claim, how long the process takes, and whether passengers or tourists have the same rights as local drivers. The Graham Injury Firm handles car accident cases on a contingency fee basis, meaning there are no upfront costs and we only get paid if we recover compensation. We help Florida residents and visitors understand timelines, venue rules, and all available insurance coverage after a crash in Fort Lauderdale and throughout Florida.
Don’t wait, your time to act is limited. Contact Graham Injury Law Firm before time’s up
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Time matters after an injury. Evidence fades, witnesses forget, and insurance companies move fast to protect their own interests. The sooner you reach out, the sooner we can start building your case and protecting your rights.
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How much does a car accident lawyer in Fort Lauderdale cost?
Although other personal injury lawyers don’t always do this, the Graham Injury Firm handles car accident cases on a contingency fee basis. That means we only get paid from a percentage of what we recover for you and only after we recover it for you. Our legal fee agreement means there is no financial risk to hiring our law firm and no out-of-pocket expenses.
Do I need a Florida car accident lawyer if I am a tourist?
If you were injured in a car accident while visiting Florida, your case likely has to be venued (or take place) here – no matter where you live. Although you may want to have a personal lawyer try to get admitted here to represent you, hiring a local lawyer is always better for a number of reasons. Specifically, Florida has specific laws and procedural rules that differ from other states, and a car accident lawyer in Fort Lauderdale will understand how to navigate the local court system, know the local defense lawyers and adjusters, and know what the “going rate” to resolve your case would be in this area. This gives you a tactical advantage that lawyers from other states – who may not even be able to represent you anyway – just do not have (but the defendant probably does). Get the upper-hand in your case by hiring the Graham Injury Firm.
How long does a car accident case take in Florida?
The timeline for a car accident case varies depending on the complexity of the issues, the severity of your injuries, and whether the case settles or goes to trial. Some straightforward cases settle within a few months, while more complex cases involving disputed liability or serious injuries may take one to three years – sometimes longer, but rarely more than five years. Your car accident lawyer in Fort Lauderdale can give you a better estimate after reviewing the specific facts of your case.
Can I recover compensation as a passenger in a one-car accident?
Yes, you may be able to. If you were a passenger in a vehicle that crashed due to the driver's negligence, you can file a claim against that driver's insurance policy. This is true even if the driver was a friend or family member, but sometimes not a spouse unless you have a special insurance policy rider. In some cases, you may also have claims against other parties, such as a vehicle manufacturer if a defect contributed to the crash or a government entity if hazardous road conditions played a role.
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