The level of compensation available depends upon a number of factors, including your insurance coverage, the severity of your injuries, and the factors that contributed to the accident itself. If another party’s negligence caused the auto accident, we may be able to pursue a claim against that person’s insurance company. At Gonzalez & Cartwright, P.A., we evaluate each and every case to determine every type of compensation that may be available to the particular client.

Gonzalez & Cartwright, P.A. handles car accident cases throughout Florida including but not limited to:

–Pompano Beach Car Accidents
-Lake Worth Car Accidents
-Boca Raton Car Accidents
-Delray Beach Car Accidents
-Wellington Car Accidents
-Fort Lauderdale Car Accidents
-Boynton Beach Car Accidents
-West Palm Beach Car Accidents
-Jupiter Car Accidents
-Hollywood Car Accidents
-Pembroke Pines Car Accidents
-Sunrise Car Accidents
-Miramar Car Accidents
-Coral Springs Car Accidents
-Plantation Car Accidents

Insurance companies are motivated to offer the smallest possible settlements in order to make your case disappear. If you feel that the settlement offer does not fairly compensate you for your injuries and property damage, consult an experienced motor vehicle accident attorney at Gonzalez & Cartwright, P.A. to determine whether you are entitled to receive more. The initial consultation is free, so you have nothing to lose.

Any accident involving a motor vehicle. This includes crashes involving a motor vehicle and a bicycle or pedestrian. Truck accidents, car accidents, motorcycle accidents and even Uber or Lyft accidents are treated as motor vehicle accidents in Florida.

Motor vehicle accidents can be caused by ordinary factors that can influence any of us on the roads or by extreme, reckless behavior that should never be accepted. Some causes of motor vehicle accidents include:

-Distracted driving,
-Driver fatigue,
-Texting while driving,
-Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs,
-Malfunction caused by a defective component of the vehicle,
-Poor weather,
-Aggressive driving, excessive speeding, or other traffic violations,
-Poor road conditions.

Your motor vehicle accident can happen in any number of ways. Rear-end collisions, head-on crashes, sideswipe accidents, T-bone collisions and multi-vehicle motor vehicle accidents are among the most common types of motor vehicle collisions.

Yes. It’s important to go to the doctor after a motor vehicle accident even if you don’t think that you have been seriously hurt. In some cases, your injuries might not show up immediately. Full examination by a qualified doctor can help identify these injuries to make sure they don’t get worse. To recover under your personal injury protection (PIP) policy, you must see a doctor within 14 days of the accident under Florida law. Additionally, the insurance company might be able to claim that something else caused your injuries if you don’t see a doctor right away after the motor vehicle accident.

In most cases, no. Our lawyers can usually negotiate a fair settlement award without the need to go to court. Court will only be advisable in rare cases where the insurance company refuses to act reasonably. In all cases, we take your personal preferences into account in deciding whether to argue your claim in court.

Yes.  You can recover coverage under your PIP insurance coverage regardless of who was at fault for the motor vehicle accident.  Further, under Florida’s pure comparative negligence rule, you can recover a portion of your compensation via a personal injury claim even if you partially caused the accident.  In these cases, each party to the crash will be assigned a percentage of fault. Your compensation award will be reduced by the percentage of fault assigned to you.

The amount of compensation that you will be entitled to receive will depend upon how serious your injuries were. There is no exact number that a lawyer can give you without first carefully reviewing the facts of your case. The worth of your motor vehicle accident will be determined based on:

-The severity of your injuries and whether they are permanent,
-Costs associated with your injury, including the cost of future physical therapy or modifications to the home that may become necessary,
-The amount of lost wages involved and whether you are able to return to work,
-The value of property damage you incurred, and
-Any other factors specifically relevant to your case, including how the accident happened and your age and medical condition prior to the accident.

Under the Florida statute of limitations, you have four years from the date of the accident to file a personal injury claim against an at-fault driver in a motor vehicle accident.

In some cases, yes. Usually, when the insurance company offers a settlement check right away in motor vehicle cases, that check doesn’t fairly account for the compensation that you should receive. The insurance company wants to make your case go away and they know you need money now. Working with our experienced motor vehicle accident lawyers can help you get a much more fair compensation award.

Your own personal injury protection (PIP) coverage will provide compensation up to your policy limits under Florida’s no-fault law. You may also be able to recover compensation from an underinsured or uninsured motorist policy if you have purchased this type of coverage. Our lawyers can also help evaluate whether your injuries are serious enough to qualify to bring a personal injury lawsuit under Florida’s serious injury threshold.

It depends upon the circumstances surrounding the accident. For example, sometimes the at-fault driver didn’t own the vehicle and you may be able to make a claim against the owner’s insurance company. Some motor vehicle accidents have more than one contributing cause. For example, the at-fault driver may have been speeding, but a defective component in the vehicle might have also contributed to the accident. We can evaluate your case to determine all relevant causes and potentially responsible parties.

Damages to cover the cost of your immediate medical expenses and lost wages may be fairly clear.  However, the extent of the damages from motor vehicle accident injuries is likely to be much more extensive.  We can work with medical experts to reach an estimate of the future cost of your treatment, as well as how the injury is likely to impact your life.  For example, if medical experts believe you may be unable to work in the future, damages for your future lost earning capacity will be factored into the total cost of your motor vehicle accident injuries.

While no two cases are exactly the same, once we begin working on your motor vehicle accident case, you can expect that we will:

-Investigate to gather evidence about the cause of the crash and to support your claim for compensation,
-Identify all available forms of compensation, including your own insurance policy that will be the first source for compensation under Florida’s no-fault insurance law,
-File a complaint against the defendant for additional compensation, who will likely then contact their own insurance company.

After the lawsuit is filed, we enter into a phase known as “discovery” where we exchange evidence with the at-fault driver’s insurance company and attorneys and continue to work to resolve the case without a formal trial.  This may mean conducting interviews with all parties to the crash that will be introduced into evidence. You may be required to submit to additional medical examinations. 

If we are unable to resolve your case during pre-trial discovery, it will proceed to trial.  At trial, we present our arguments and evidence in your favor for resolution by a judge or jury.

Our founding attorneys have been fighting together to protect the rights of accident victims in Florida for the past decade. Adriana Gonzalez has successfully recovered over $30 million in compensation for Florida motor vehicle accident victims. Charles Cartwright brings 20 years’ worth of experience advocating for client rights to the table. Importantly, Attorney Cartwright previously worked for the very insurance companies that we face off against when negotiating for your settlement award. Because of this, he knows how those companies work and uses this experience to maximize available compensation in your case.