Please accept this question and response from the accident lawyer in Boca Raton (injury attorney West Kendall, Florida, accident lawyer Downtown Miami, injury lawyer Doral, accident attorney Aventura, accident lawyer North Miami, injury lawyer North Bay Village, accident attorney Keystone Point, injury lawyer Hialeah, accident lawyer Opa Locka).
Generally, in Florida, a car insurance policy has provisions which require you to give statements and otherwise cooperate with YOUR insurance company (sometimes an insurance company will even request an examination under oath, called an EUO, which is a sworn statement or essentially a deposition without a court case pending). The policy of the particular insurance must be read to determine exactly what the policy requires. Thus, if your own insurance company is calling you to ask questions about the accident, they are entitled to do so and you may be breaching the insurance policy/contract if you refuse to contact the insurance company and give the statement. Now, you do not have to give it at the moment they call and you certainly are entitled to have your own lawyer prepare you and be on the statement with you.
If you have been in a car accident, please call Drucker Law Offices today for a free consultation at (561) 483-9199 for Palm Beach County; (954) 755-2120 in Broward County; or (305) 981-1561 in Miami-Dade County.
Note that if the other insurance company is calling you, that you generally do NOT have to give a statement to the OTHER insurance company of the car involved in the accident. There may be practical reasons to give it to them, for example if you are trying to get your car fixed through them and that have been unable to confirm liability against their insurance for some reason or another. Again, you are entitled to speak with a lawyer and have that lawyer prepare you for the recorded statements and in my experiences the insurance company often will agree to such statements to be unrecorded, which clearly would be a better alternative.
Drucker Law Offices helps clients in giving statements to their insurance copmany and helping them prove their injury cases in car accident and other types of accident cases. If you have been an accident and would like a free consultation, please call 561-483-9199; or 954-755-2120; or 305-981-1561. Fees are only charged if money is recovered for you. The principal office is in Boca Raton and satellite offices are in Miami, Coral Springs, Boynton Beach and West Palm Beach.
Of course, every case has to be judged based on the facts of the case. The advice in this blog is intended to be general in nature and should not to be construed as specific advice for a case, as the most slight difference in the facts could ultimately change the result. Also, this blog is, as the web site suggests, based on Florida law and the laws of any other states or country could vary significantly from Florida.
