Personal Injury Law

Florida Personal Injury Law Attorneys

If you or a loved one has been injured due to the negligence of another, you may not know where to turn. Your normal life has been upended, you’re dealing with insurance and medical issues you’ve never had deal with before and an insurance company is trying to contact you. Step back, collect yourself and contact our personal injury attorneys Boca Raton. An accident may not be as simple as it seems and you don’t want to discuss anything with an insurance company without talking to an attorney first. Our law firm represents plaintiffs in a wide range of personal injury actions, from car accident injuries to nursing home neglect to medical. Regardless of your injury, our personal injury lawyers Boca Raton can help. Our Boca Raton personal injury law firm represents plaintiffs effectively and efficiently in state and federal courts throughout Florida. No matter the situation, our clients can count on both highly personal highly professional service.

Automobile Accidents

You may be tempted to attempt settling a car accident on your own. To you, the situation seems straightforward, and you just want to get it over with and put it behind you. Unfortunately, this could be a major mistake. The insurance company and its attorneys won’t tell you the damages you may be able to recover. They won’t tell you any information that will put their insured in a bad light. What seems like a simple accident could have many legal issues involving potentially multiple defendants. Was the road properly designed or maintained? Were the brakes on the other car negligently serviced or repaired? Was the other car recalled due to safety issues, but the owner never returned it to the dealer? As personal injury lawyers, we can look into many issues you might never have thought of in order to make sure your rights to compensation are fully protected. Our Boca Raton personal injury attorneys take care of the legal and insurance hassles so you won’t have to. We take the stress of the legal process away from our clients as much as we can, and we work with the insurance companies to ensure our clients receive proper medical treatment. Our Boca injury attorney will zealously represent our clients when dealing with insurance companies, work to get them the best compensation we can and provide them with prompt, professional service.

Medical Malpractice

When you seek medical treatment for a condition, you put your trust in the hands of professionals you believe will treat you with the best of care. Sometimes, that trust is misplaced, and a medical situation can go from bad to worse. We represent plaintiffs who have been harmed due to the negligence of their health care providers and the companies that supply them with medical devices. This is a complex area of law and we have the skills and experience to help our clients get the compensation they seek. Physicians and hospitals have insurance companies and lawyers on their side. You need to protect yourself too.

Nursing Home Abuse

Families with elderly parents can be stretched to the breaking point. Adults need to work, sometimes more than one job, to make ends meet. Their children have needs of their own. When a parent becomes ill or disabled and can no longer live independently, options may be severely limited. As much as you may want to care for your parent full time, often, this simply isn’t feasible. Nursing homes and rehabilitation centers are trusted with the care of elderly adults. Most facilities have hard-working, honest, caring employees who take care of those they’re entrusted with. But that’s not always the case. There may be managers or staff members who intentionally abuse residents or are simply indifferent to their needs. Hospital understaffing is a national problem, and many of these elderly residents cannot defend or speak for themselves. If you believe a loved one is suffering from negligence or abuse at a nursing home, contact our office. Our personal injury attorney Boca Raton can discuss your rights and the rights of your loved one, take steps to protect your loved one and seek proper compensation for injuries suffered.

Product Liability

Product liability law involves seeking justice for those injured by a negligently designed, manufactured or marketed product. Examples of these cases can be a defectively designed artificial hip that fails, a forklift that can flip over while lifting a normal load or a medication whose side effects are far more severe than the harm it’s supposed to treat. In these cases, a defendant is liable when the product is demonstrated to be defective. It doesn’t matter if the manufacturer or supplier exercised great care. If there’s a defect in the product that caused harm, there will be liability. These cases are often driven by highly technical issues such as engineering and medical testing. Given the potential liability, defendants and their insurance companies fight hard against such cases. If you believe you’ve been injured by a defective product, contact our Boca Raton personal injury law office. If that turns out to be the case, many others may have been injured too and legal action can be sought in order to help right a wrong.

Class Actions

A class action is a type of lawsuit that permits one or more plaintiffs to file and prosecute a lawsuit on behalf of a larger group or “class”. It allows courts to manage lawsuits that would otherwise be unmanageable if each class member (those who have suffered the same wrong due to the defendant) were required to be joined in the lawsuit as a named plaintiff. An example could be a product liability case where numerous plaintiffs are harmed by the same product under the same circumstances. Like product liability cases, given the potential liability in class action cases, defendants try very hard to prevent class action certification, so litigation will be as time consuming and expensive for plaintiffs as possible. If you would like to discuss class action litigation with our personal injury law office Boca Raton, let us know. We can discuss your situation and decide if a class action or individual suit is the best route for your unique situation. Doing the right thing for our clients who have sought justice through the legal system is a major part of our personal injury law firm Boca Raton practice at Weiss, Handler & Cornwell, PA. Our team of Boca Raton personal injury lawyers pride themselves on the personal service we provide and the hard work we put into each case to get the best outcome possible for our clients.

If you are trying to find a lawyer Boca Raton, do not hesitate, contact Weiss, Handler & Cornwell, P.A. today at 800-863-9560. Our experienced Boca Raton personal injury attorney is here to help.