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January 11, 2021
I wanted to provide you with a little information about what to do after a car accident and also what happens if you had a prior injury or preexisting condition that was aggravated in that accident. A lot of people ask me, “you know I had a prior neck problem I was seeing a Chiropractor and then I get hit by a car and it got a lot worse. Do I have a claim?” My answer is yes, you still have a claim. In Florida, you can recover for aggravation of a preexisting condition. So, just because you were injured […]
January 4, 2021
After a car accident, a lot of people go to the doctor because they have specific injuries that they sustained right in that car accident and they know they didn’t have that before. Some people a day or two later, they’re like “well I really don’t feel that much pain, I don’t know if I’m hurt you know do I still have a case?” Well, my answer to them is go get checked out because sometimes it takes more than a couple of days to feel the pain from a car accident. Sometimes it takes even up to a week […]
December 28, 2020
I get a lot of calls from people who are either pedestrians or runners or even cyclists who are riding their bicycle or running and got hit by a car and they ask me what their rights are. Well, the first thing is if you get hit by a car and you own your own vehicle you can go after your own car insurance for what’s called your PIP Benefits, personal injury protection, that will pay for the first $10,000 of your medical bills. If you don’t own a car and there are different circumstances involved with this, you could […]
December 21, 2020
Hi, Gene Zweben from Zweben Law group here to give you a little information about what to do after an accident. I get asked a lot if I was at fault for an accident can I still recover from my injuries from the other party? Typically, if you’re 100% at fault for an accident, you can’t recover from the other party, but you still may be able to recover through your own insurance for some medical bills. That was personal injury protection that I previously discussed in a prior video where your own policy can provide up to $10,000 of […]
December 14, 2020
Hi, Gene Zweben from Zweben Law Group here to give you a little information about what to do after a car accident and what happens if the person that hits you, the person that’s at fault doesn’t have any insurance. What do you do? Well hopefully, you have a good insurance agent and they sold you what’s called uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage. We call it “UM.” If you have “UM” and the other person doesn’t have any liability coverage or bodily injury coverage, which I previously discussed in another video, you can go after your own uninsured motorist or […]
November 30, 2020
Hi, Gene Zweben from Zweben Law Group here to give you a little bit of information about what happens after an accident and how your attorney will get paid if you hire one to pursue your damages for you. Typically, in Florida, and what we do here at Zweben Law Group is work on a contingency fee. That means that you don’t pay any money at all unless we get money for you. That includes the cost that were going to have to spend out of our pocket to try to pursue your claim and build your case against the […]
November 23, 2020
Hi, Gene Zweben from Zweben Law Group here to give you a little bit of information about what to do after a car accident and how the liability coverage works meaning how are you going to get paid for your injuries. In Florida, there is no requirement that the person driving has liability coverage or bodily injury coverage. However, most insurance companies do write policies that have that liability coverage. In Florida, on your policy, it’s called bodily injury, and if you look at your policy you’ll see that bodily injury can come in all different amounts. $10,000/$20,000, $25,000/$50,000, $100,000/$300,000, […]
November 9, 2020
Hi, Gene Zweben from Zweben Law Group here to give you a little information on what to do after a car accident and who pays for your property damage, who pays to fix your car. Typically in Florida, both parties should have insurance to cover your car. On your policy it’s called collision on the other person’s policy who is at fault for the accident it’s called property damage. In Florida, it’s required to have a minimum of $10,000 in property damage. So if you weren’t at fault for an accident the other person should have $10,000 to pay to […]
November 2, 2020
Hi, Gene Zweben from Zweben Law Group here to give you a little bit of information about what to do after a car accident and how it works with your medical bills. In Florida, we’re a no-fault state where personal injury protection, which is called PIP insurance, on your own policy pays for the first $10,000 of your medical bills. It will pay 80% of every medical bill up to $10,000. You can purchase additional insurance called medical payments coverage that will pay for that 20% and sometimes depending upon how high the limits are will pay for even more […]