PIP coverage or Florida no-fault coverage generally applies to your own insurance. It’s not the person who hits you, it would be your own insurance paying out the PIP. However, there’s numerous exceptions with PIP. For example, people on motorcycles, PIP...
Economic damages are things that generally have a price tag attached to them. Things like past and future medical bills, past and future lost wages, loss of use of the vehicle, property damage, things that you purchased incidentally like a bag of ice or an Advil....
Non-economic damages are the damages that people suffer that are harder to quantify. Not things like a particular medical bill but softer things like pain and suffering, mental anguish, loss of consortium with a spouse. Things that are very difficult to put a specific...
Florida law states that dog owners are responsible for the actions of their dogs. Even if that person never had a thought that their dog would bite someone, if their dog does injure a member of the public or somebody else, the owner is responsible for those...
Well, you can’t sue a dog in the state of Florida but you can absolutely sue a dog owner. A dog owner is responsible for their dog’s actions whether it’s intentional or not. If you’re bitten or injured by a dog, even if a dog knocks you down...
Potentially, yes. If an apartment owner or a manager knew or reasonably should have known that a dangerous condition, like a rapist, existed on the property, they have a duty to correct that dangerous condition to keep residents and guests...
