What to Do After a Truck Accident: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide
A truck accident can turn your life upside down in seconds. The injuries are often severe, the medical bills pile up fast, and the legal process that follows is far more complicated than most people expect. Commercial truck accidents are not like typical car accidents. Multiple parties may be responsible: the truck driver, the trucking […]
What Is a Catastrophic Injury? A Legal Guide for Victims & Families
When something goes terribly wrong- a crash, a surgical mistake, a defective product- the injuries that follow can change everything. Not just temporarily. Permanently. Some injuries heal with time. Others don’t. The ones that don’t, the ones that take away your ability to work, care for yourself, or live the life you had, fall into […]
How Long Can a Car Accident Lawsuit Take in Florida?
After a car accident, one of the first questions people ask is how long the legal process will take. It’s a fair question; you have medical bills piling up, time off work, and real financial pressure. The last thing you want is to feel stuck in a process you don’t understand with no end in […]
Nursing Home Abuse vs. Neglect: What’s the Difference & How to Take Legal Action
When a loved one moves into a nursing home, you trust that facility to keep them safe, healthy, and treated with dignity. That trust is not always honored. Across Florida, families are discovering that their elderly relatives have been harmed, sometimes physically, sometimes emotionally, and sometimes through a slow pattern of ignored medical needs. Two […]
$2 Million Policy Limit Settlement in Wrongful Death Case Involving Vacation Rental Home Guest
The Haggard Law Firm’s Pedro Echarte along with co-counsel Joey Rafaeli, Esq of Rafaeli Law and Erik Feingold, Esq of Myers Widders Gibson Jones & Feingold, have obtained a $2 Million policy limit settlement in an Orlando-area negligent security wrongful death case. The case involved the shooting death of a vacation home rental guest. On […]
Three Things to Do When You Get Into A Car Accident!
1. Call the Police! The first thing you should do when you get into a car accident is to take out your phone and dial 911! When speaking to the operator be sure to provide them with the most precise location you can so that first responders will arrive as soon as possible. When the […]
Diminished Value: Compensation for Your Vehicle’s Loss of Value
When getting into a car accident, most people automatically think of filing a personal injury claim against the at-fault driver. However, if this is the only claim or lawsuit you file, you could be leaving lots of money on the table. Assuming that your car is in reparable condition and the accident was not your […]