Boating Related Accident Lawyer

Going to a doctor is important. First off, your health matters. Second, our founding partner, attorney John Phillips, worked for insurance companies and large businesses for the first eight years after law school. The main thing he learned was “damage control.” Insurance companies want to say people who don’t go to the doctor aren’t injured and people who don’t miss work aren’t hurt. It’s simply not true, but preserving your case is important.

Determining commercial liability policies or homeowners liability insurance policies are the first part of any serious injury claim. It is the benefit available to you and we want to make sure every penny is available to you It covers both economic and non-economic damages. Economic damages are typically the things you can put in a calculator, like medical bills and lost wages- past and future.

We will also seek to recover for non-economic damages, which include damages as the result of any bodily injury sustained by Plaintiff and any resulting pain and suffering disability or physical impairment, disfigurement, mental anguish, inconvenience or loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life experienced in the past or to be experienced in the future. (Florida Standard Jury Instruction, See 501.2).

Many of our clients are hurting, struggling and hoping they get better, but aren’t. 

We will seek to recover FULL economic AND non-economic damages. Economic damages are typically the things you can put in a calculator, like medical bills and lost wages- past and future.

We will also seek to recover for non-economic damages, which include damages as the result of any bodily injury sustained by Plaintiff and any resulting pain and suffering disability or physical impairment, disfigurement, mental anguish, inconvenience or loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life experienced in the past or to be experienced in the future. (Florida Standard Jury Instruction, See 501.2).

Insurance carriers try to negotiate every dollar they can, because every $100 means millions in the end to their Board of Directors. Attorneys matter. Defendants and their carriers change their game plan when an experienced lawyer is involved. For that reason -and the misinformation by TV lawyers and referral services- is why people should select lawyers carefully.

Because of the economy, more lawyers are jumping into personal injury and wrongful death cases and should stick to what they know. Other lawyers are just too young and inexperienced to be able earn the respect of insurance companies or have never tried a case by themselves. Insurance companies hire experienced lawyers on their side. You should, too. Personal injury law requires knowledge about medical science and biomechanics (the forces on a body in a wreck or a fall) far greater and more specific than you’d think. The other side has doctors and millions on their side to say nothing is wrong or fight the claim.

Pick:

• (1) A Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer. It’s the Bar’s gold standard.
• (2) Pick a lawyer who has been to trial and achieved multiple million dollar verdicts. The insurance companies know.’
• (3) Stay away from the TV advertisers. They pay for those ads by settling cases.

Board certification recognizes attorneys’ special knowledge, skills and proficiency in various areas of law and professionalism and ethics in practice.

John is Board Certified as a Civil Trial Lawyer. The Bar certifies lawyers who pass a full day examination and undergo extra training and who have a documented history of going to trial and good peer reviews. If you are paying the same contingency fee, we’d recommend hiring a Board Certified lawyer. It makes a difference.