Jeffrey R. Davis, P.A. Personal Injury Blog

If you are injured in a car accident, there are steps you can take and mistakes you should avoid to help preserve your legal right to compensation for your injuries. Simple things can mean a lot when you file an insurance claim or pursue litigation. The number one rule is to remain calm. You may…

Serious surgical errors can make a bad situation worse. You went in for surgery here in Florida to resolve one problem, but if surgical mistakes are made, it may not only persist, but you could have new problems. A medical malpractice claim or lawsuit may compensate you for the harm you suffer due to surgical…

Personal Injury: 50 Mistakes Insurance Companies Want You to Make Via Email eventmaterials@nbi-sems.com Legal Ethics Pitfalls to Avoid 4:00 – 5:00, Jeffrey R. Davis Competence – Getting in Over Your Head According to the rules regulating the Florida Bar state, a lawyer should not enter a lawyer-client relationship when the lawyer cannot provide competent and…

When you have been injured in Florida, you may wonder if you can receive compensation from the party that caused the accident. That is what negligence cases are all about – whether you are hurt in a car accident, struck by a vehicle while walking across a street, or riding your motorcycle when a car…

The Sun-Sentinel Op Ed Link to article. For years, Florida has protected the purse, not the people. Luckily, the Legislature gets a chance to fix that this session by amending the state’s sovereign immunity law. Lawmakers had a chance to do so in the last legislative session, too, and didn’t. But at least the bill…

Our law firm recently concluded the settlement of a workplace violence claim where our client, a security guard, was shot and paralyzed by a co-worker. The claim involved overcoming a major legal challenge known as Worker’s Compensation Immunity. In Florida, in order to sue an employer that provides an injured employee with worker’s compensation benefits,…

We recently concluded a negligent security claim against a nightclub facility in Broward County, Florida. The nightclub advertised an event on social media featuring live music, food and drinks with a festival theme. During Covid, the nightclub had expanded their event space to include the parking area in front of the premises which they closed…

Spoliation of evidence means you “spoiled “the evidence in a case. Evidence can be an object, product, condition, documents, materials, electronic records -basically anything needed to prove the facts of a case. Spoiling can mean destroying it, throwing it away, losing it, failing to keep it secure or safe, allowing others to tamper with it…

As an injury lawyer I receive thousands of calls every year from people involved in motor vehicle accidents. When I ask them about their own automobile insurance I usually get the same two responses: 1. Why are you asking me about my insurance, I did not cause the accident? and, 2. Don’t worry, I have…

In response to “Repealing PIP Insurance is a Bad Deal for Floridians and a Costly One Too”, the authors, both of whom are closely aligned to the insurance industry, claim that our current automobile insurance scheme in Florida is working and that to change it, and add mandatory bodily injury insurance with the repeal of…