Port St Lucie Personal Injury Lawyer

Fight for Your Right to Compensation with a Proven Local Port St. Lucie Injury Attorney Team

Helping Injury Victims along the Treasure Coast Recover Financially after their Accident

Steve Hoskins

Port St. Lucie is a jewel along Florida’s Treasure Coast. With its central location between Orlando and Miami, great schools, and happy families, our city truly is a hidden gem. Our natural beauty and strong appeal compelled the New York Mets to designate us as their spring training grounds, and U.S. News & World Report recently named us one of the top 100 best places to live in America.

Our personal injury attorneys in Port St. Lucie aim to help keep the financial prospects of local residents bright by being there in their time of need after a major personal injury. For over 30 years, our attorneys have served injured clients along the Treasure Coast. Each one received individualized attention and unflagging service from lawyers who genuinely care.

If you have been injured in a car accident, truck accident, slip and fall, dog bite attack, bicycle accident, boat accident, construction accident, motorcycle accident, pedestrian accident, swimming pool accident, or if a loved one has suffered from a brain injury or death from an accident in Port St. Lucie, our lawyers are here to help you. Let us fight for your right to receive fair compensation for your injury. We have dealt with insurance companies and corporate lawyers for decades, so we know the optimal strategies to get you as large of a settlement as possible.

You can receive a free, no-obligation consultation regarding your potential case when you speak with knowledgeable Port St. Lucie injury lawyer Steve Hoskins. Contact us online or call 866-460-1990 to schedule your free case review today.

What Damages You Might Be Entitled to after a Personal Injury

Your life and livelihood should not have to be disrupted by the costs of your personal injury. All too often, injury victims receive either extremely low settlement offers or no settlement offer whatsoever to compensate them for costs that resulted from a negligent individual.

The average person may not even be able to accurately predict the full costs of his or her injury over the long term. In addition to medical bills piling up, accident victims may also have to worry about losing income because they have to miss work. There are also the random expenses that add up, as well as the pain and suffering they have to endure.

A complete personal injury claim will account for as many of these damages as possible so that victims are not stuck paying for the costs of an injury that was no fault of their own. An experienced personal injury lawyer in Port St. Lucie can help you estimate the full extent of these costs—past and future—potentially preventing a situation where you accept a “lowball” settlement only to realize how inadequate it actually was.

Let us help you pursue the full damages that resulted from your injury from all liable parties. Our familiarity with the claims process and civil trial litigation positions you to have improved chances at a successful claim.

Why haggle with insurers and risk saying something that could come back to haunt you? Your Port St. Lucie personal injury lawyer will be at your service, representing you, filing documents on your behalf, gathering evidence, and taking your case all the way to court, if need be. With our help, you can confidently file your claim and assess all of your predicted damages, not just a fraction.

Reach out to experienced personal injury lawyer Steve Hoskins today. Your first appointment is always free, and it can point you towards a strategy with a solid chance of success.

Personal Injury Statistics for Port St. Lucie, Florida

Port St. Lucie citizens can get injured in any number of common ways. Among them, motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of injury and the third-highest cause of accidental death in Florida. For those lucky enough to survive their accident injuries, they can expect a median hospital stay of four days and a median admitting a charge of over $70,000.

Florida saw nearly 3,000 fatal accidents in 2017, leading to 3,112 deaths. An estimated 661 of these deaths involved intoxicated drivers over the legal blood alcohol limit (BAC).

In St. Lucie County, where Port St. Lucie is located, 5,062 crashes occurred in 2017. These accidents resulted in 2,113 injuries and 42 tragic deaths. The county’s three-year average for crashes sits slightly lower at 4,734.

Other common causes of non-fatal injury in Florida, according to Florida Health statistics, include:

  1. Falls, including slip and falls—71,246
  2. Drug overdose—11,758
  3. Pedestrian and bicycle accidents—1,294
  4. Gunshots—533
  5. Animal bites—141
  6. Drowning—90

As you can see, accidents happen all the time in Port St. Lucie, and they can have dire consequences. When someone sustains major injuries, they can be left handling massive medical bills—even if they have health insurance.

Florida’s PIP minimums mean that you may have as little as $10,000 in car insurance available to cover these bills, and this amount is only available if you are involved in a motor vehicle-related accident. As for personal health insurance, it still has co-pays and uncovered expenses that add up.

Because of these costs, many car accident injury victims explore their options for filing a third-party bodily injury liability (BIL) claim against any allegedly at-fault drivers.

Florida Negligence and Liability Laws that May Apply to Your Port St. Lucie Accident

Any time you have a serious injury after an accident in Florida, you could be eligible to file a personal injury claim with an at-fault individual’s liability insurance policy. To do so, you must first prove that your injury meets the minimum standard of severity. Such injuries include:

  • Bone fractures
  • Significant disfigurement
  • Permanent limited use of an appendage or bodily organ
  • Significant temporary limitation of a major body system or function
  • Substantially full disability for at least 90 days

To be eligible to make a liability claim, you will need to convincingly show that another driver or party was responsible and thereby liable for your accident. The most common method is to prove that this individual was negligent, thereby, acting contrary to how a “reasonable person” might have exercised “ordinary care” to avoid the incident from happening.

In a car accident, negligence could take the form of someone speeding, driving while intoxicated, or ignoring driving laws. If you were injured on someone’s property, such as in a slip and fall accident, you will have to show that the business or tenant failed to exercise reasonable care to identify the problem, correct it, or at least notify someone that the danger existed.

Furthermore, Florida’s comparative negligence laws mean that your injury claim could be reduced if at-fault parties successfully argue that you were somehow partially responsible for your own injuries because of negligence.

Address
1555 NW St. Lucie West Blvd.
Suite 203, Port St. Lucie, Fl. 34986

We are open
Open hours: 9:00am – 05:00pm Mon-Fri

Phone
(772) 344-7770

Fax
 (772) 344-3838

E-mail
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    Ft. Pierce Office
    302 South Second Street
    Ft. Pierce, FL 34950
    Phone: (772) 464-4600
    Fax: (772) 465-4747
    Port St. Lucie Office
    1555 NW St. Lucie West Blvd
    Suite 203, Port St. Lucie, FL 34986
    Phone: (772) 344-7770
    Fax: (772)344-3838
    Okeechobee Office
    1910 S Parrott Ave
    Okeechobee, FL 34974
    Phone: (863) 357-5800
    Fax: (863) 763-2237
    Vero Beach Office
    2101 15th Avenue
    Vero Beach, FL 32960
    Phone: (772) 794-7774
    Fax: (772) 794-7773