The above question will be responded to by the accident lawyer from Boca Raton (injury lawyer Fort Lauderdale, accident attorney Wilton Manors, injury attorney Weston, accident lawyer Margate, injury attorney Coral Springs, accident lawyer Parkland).
Any injury case has four primary elements – 1) liability; 2) damages and 3) causation. You must prove all three elements to win a case. The above question involves damages. While generally the liability in a case will be the same as between two people that are in a car (regardless of whether they are drivers or passengers), the damages could be significantly different. First of all, if there is a side impact, the person on the side where the impact was located could sustain completely different injuries than someone on the other side of the car. Further, someone’s age and someone’s ability to withstand an impact based on body weight, how in shape they are and other factors could make one person much more injured as opposed to someone else, even if for the same accident.
If someone is injured but never goes to the hospital or never goes to a doctor, this could make their “case” worth nothing, even though had they gone to a doctor and treated for those injuries then they would have a case.
The primary point here is that you do not get a settlement or a trial verdict solely for being in a car and just because someone you know received a settlement based on THEIR INJURY does not mean that your case is worth the SAME. Each case is “worth” the damages and damages would be based on a case by case basis, based on the diagnostic tests, the injuries, the medical bills, and so forth.
Drucker Law Offices handles accident cases. The law firm helps passengers and drivers of cars. If you have been in an accident, please call Drucker Law Offices at 561-483-9199 (Boca Raton Main office) or 954-755-2120 (Coral Springs satellite office) or 305-981-1561 (Miami satellite office).
Of course, a case based on a fact pattern such as the one above is unique and any other case should be judged based on the specific facts of the case. The advice in this blog is intended to be general and should not to be used as specific advice for a case, as the slightest difference in the facts could change the result. Also, this blog is, as the web site name suggests, based on Florida law and the laws of any other state could vary significantly from Florida.
