Motorcyclists are in a considerable amount of danger when they hit the road. Because motorcycles are often smaller than the average car, motorcyclists must trust that drivers will keep them safe. Unfortunately, our St. Johns Park motorcycle accident lawyers know that motorists can break that trust – and a person’s bike.
It’s with the risks motorcyclists assume in mind that Anidjar & Levine serves greater Florida. Since 2005, our personal injury lawyers in St. Johns Park have advocated for motorcyclists’ rights to recover damages based on their accident losses. If you’re recovering from a recent crash, our attorneys can represent you in your ongoing fight for financial support.
Personal Injury Claims Can Help You Financially Recover After a Crash
Personal injury claims are documents that detail the nature of negligence-based accidents. Someone filing a personal injury claim can discuss:
- The nature of a recent accident
- The role negligence played in a recent accident
- The economic cost of that negligence
Motorcycle accident lawyers in St. Johns Park, FL, understand the concept of negligence. We use that understanding to help survivors like you file personal injury claims after serious accidents. That effort allows you to argue that you have the right to recover financially and that a liable party owes you that financial support.
With the possibility of financial recovery in mind, our team encourages motorcycle accident survivors to pursue personal injury claims. Our experience within the civil system makes filing the paperwork needed to move these claims forward easier.
Proving Negligence After a Motorcycle Accident
To move a motorcycle accident claim forward, you must gather enough evidence to prove that someone else is to blame for your losses. While you can do the legwork to gather evidence, you can also ask a personal injury lawyer to look into your accident.
Our team specializes in sifting through electronic data and physical evidence. We can interview witnesses and distill those interviews into soundbites that establish accident liability. We can use those sound bites combined with physical debris, environmental damage, and expert witness testimony. This combination of sources paints a picture of accident fault.
Criminal Charges and Their Impact on Your Motorcycle Accident Case
Florida police officers may file criminal charges against the person responsible for your motorcycle accident. You cannot ask the police to open these investigations, but you may benefit from them.
If Florida’s criminal courts find your liable party guilty of reckless driving, drunk driving, or another offense, make a note. Your personal injury attorney can include a criminal conviction in the evidence you use to prove motorcycle accident liability.
A conviction may not win your civil case outright, but it makes it easier for you to argue that the offender violated the duty of care they owed you.
When to Call a St. Johns Park Motorcycle Accident Lawyer
Motorcycle accident attorneys in St. Johns Park, FL, want you to recover from a crash as quickly as possible. We recommend you contact our team members within a few weeks of your crash. This way, we can gather evidence from your accident scene while it’s fresh.
However, you have until your motorcycle accident case’s statute of limitations expires to connect with our team. The National Law Review notes that Florida’s statute of limitations recently changed. You must file your claim within two years, or else you may waive your right to support.
How to Ask for Motorcycle Accident Damages
When asking for motorcycle accident damages, emphasize your right to support based on your economic and non-economic losses. Our team can outline your right to include a range of these losses in your finalized claim. That range may include the following:
- Motorcycle damage and property replacement
- Additional property damage
- Lost wages or reduced opportunities to work
- Emergency medical care
- Ambulance fees
- Long-term injury treatments
- Temporary or permanent disability
- Pain and suffering
- Emotional distress
- Reduced quality of life
You can ask for motorcycle damages in and out of court. If you’d prefer to resolve your case privately, our attorneys can arrange a settlement negotiation meeting between you and a liable party. We can then mediate the proceedings.
However, it can prove challenging to communicate with someone who won’t acknowledge the severity of your losses. If a liable party refuses to hear your support request, our team can take your motorcycle accident case to civil trial. We can keep the door open for settlement negotiations until the case begins.
Insurance Providers May Owe You a Motorcycle Accident Settlement
Florida requires everyone on the road to purchase insurance. Drivers who do not have insurance violate state laws and put the people on the road around them at risk.
What does this mean for motorcyclists? In general, motorcyclists involved in recent accidents should have the right to file for accident support through a liable party’s insurance company. If an insurance company honors that claim, survivors can recover damages based on the value of their economic losses.
However, insurance companies and their claims adjusters are not on your side. Many companies have an inherent bias against motorcyclists. Adjusters can use underhanded techniques to deny a motorcycle accident claim, including ghosting you or removing key evidence from an accident scene. Our team is here to help you file despite those efforts.
Your Initial Case Consultation Comes Free of Charge
You don’t have to fight for accident compensation on your own. Let a St. Johns Park motorcycle accident attorney represent you throughout your recovery. We have nearly two decades of experience that we’re prepared to use on your behalf.
Your first case consultation with our team members comes free of charge. Book an assessment before your case’s statute of limitations expires.
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