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Who pays for wages in a motor vehicle accident

In Florida, owners of cars are required to carry some amount of car insurance – Personal Injury Protection (PIP) and Property damage coverage.   PIP pays 80 percent of medical bills and 60 percent of wages to a total of $10,000.00.  Some people have a PIP deductible of up to $1,000.00.

Wages claims are generally presented as follows.  The injured person needs to get a disability note from their treating doctor stating they could not work for the pertinent period as a result of the accident.  The injured person needs to have their employer fill out a wage verifiation form showing the time they missed from work and showing the earning history for the last 13 weeks.  Once these documents are forwarded to the PIP insurance company, the insurance company has 30 days to pay the wages.

The timing of the presentation of the wage claim can be important.  If the wage claim is presented at the very beginning and if the person has a deductible, then the wages may not get paid as they might be applied to the deductible.  Similarly, if the wage claim is presented too late, then the PIP benefits may exhaust if the medical bills are large enough to exhaust the $10,000.00 of PIP benefits.

Every case is different and must be judged on its merits. It is a good start to get a complementary consultation regarding an accident case in case this happens to you. The advice contained in this blog is intended to be of general matter and not as to a specific situation, so pelase call a licensed Florida attorney, like the lawyer at Drucker Law Offices, to determine if and how Florida law applies to your case.

If you have been in an accident, please feel free to conact Drucker Law Offices regarding your wage claim to discuss how to best present same.  Clients are helped to process their wage claims, medical claims and claims for pain an suffering.  The injury lawyer is in Boca Raton (accident lawyer in Boynton Beach, injury attorney in Delray Beach, accident lawyer in Deerfield Beach, injury lawyer in Pompano Beach). Please call 561-483-9199.

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