If you’re in a car accident while you’re working, workers compensation may pay for medical bills and part of your lost wages.  If workers’ compensation pays, it has a right to get repaid from your settlement with the party whose negligence caused your injury in Florida.

This legal right to get repaid is called a ‘workers compensation lien’.  The injured claimant is responsible for paying the workers comp lien.

Thus, it benefits an injured claimant to use any Personal Injury Protection (“PIP”) insurance to pay a workers’ compensation lien.  Then, the claimant will keep more of the injury settlement to himself. [Read more…]

The Basics

In Florida, Personal Injury Protection (PIP) is automobile insurance coverage that allows people to recover from an auto insurance company to which they are an insured for the economic loss (e.g. medical bills, lost wages, etc.) that results from bodily injuries in automobile crash. [Read more…]

An auto insurer may deny PIP coverage if the applicant didn’t tell the insurer about all the people who resided with the applicant when the Florida insurance application was completed.   [Read more…]

If the PIP adjuster asks an insured for a recorded statement in a Florida auto accident case, he has to give it. [Read more…]

A motor vehicle driver’s negligence may cause a pedestrian’s injury in Florida.  If so, in most cases, Personal Injury Protection (PIP) benefits will pay benefits. [Read more…]

If you don’t own a car, and you’re hurt in a Florida car crash, Personal Injury Protection (PIP) insurance may pay your medical bills. [Read more…]

There is no time limit within which you must get medical treatment after a Florida auto accident to have a case.  However, there are time limits that may affect: [Read more…]