Available Damages From a Boating Accident

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If you’ve been involved in a boating accident here in Florida, there are various potential avenues for recovery. Most commonly, when someone is injured, they are compensated for the medical bills and the treatment that they’ve received. They’ve received perhaps a settlement that involves compensation for the pain and suffering that they had to endure because of the incident. Maybe they’ve lost wages. There’s also property damage to consider if you’ve been involved in a boating accident, whether it was your boat that was struck by the negligence of another or whatever act contributed to your injury, you can be compensated for that as well. The important thing is to be able to overturn every stone to find any recovery possible for you. If you have been involved in a boating accident, please speak with us. We’ll be able to examine the specific details of your case and compensate you in any way possible for your injuries.

Sometimes clients call and tell us they were injured in an accident due to somebody else’s fault; either they forgot, they were in a hurry, or some people are just opposed to it still. What we tell those clients is you are able to receive compensation for injuries sustained in that car accident as long as the seat belt would not have prevented them. For example, if you’re struck from the side and you break your arm against the door, you have a valid claim for that injury. However, if by wearing a seat belt you would not have struck your head on the steering wheel, for example, then you are not protected. It’s called the seat belt defense. What would happen is, although we would claim all of the injuries that were caused by the accident, the defendants are allowed to assert as a defense that because you weren’t wearing a seat belt those injuries should be either precluded or diminished because of your failure to wear that device.