Navigating Florida’s New Negligence Law: Challenges for Personal Injury Cases

February 20, 2025adminNews, Personal Injury

In March 2023, Florida enacted significant changes to its negligence laws, making it more difficult for personal injury victims to recover damages. The state transitioned from a pure comparative negligence system to a modified comparative negligence rule. Under this new law, if a plaintiff is found to be more than 50% at fault, they are...

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Seeking Justice Across America

January 2, 2024adminPersonal Injury

The Law Offices of Evan M. Ostfeld, P.A. Founded on 09/11/01, Evan M. Ostfeld, P.A. has dedicated over 30 years to fighting for the rights of the injured and their families across the United States, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Our ambition is to extend our services to the American territories...

Apr

Why You Need to Purchase Uninsured Motorist Coverage?

April 5, 2021adminPersonal Injury

More than one in five Florida drivers are on the roads without insurance, according to a new study by the Insurance Research Council. Not a shock, but Florida was the sixth-worst state in the nation for uninsured motorists with a rate of 20.4% driving unprotected. The national average was 12.9%. To make matters worse even...

Oct

What Insurance Companies Don’t Want You to Know… Three Tricks of the Trade’ Insurers Use against You!

October 23, 2020adminPersonal Injury, Product Liability, Workers Compensation

Learn the Tricks from a Coral Springs Insurance Claim Lawyer We all know insurance companies work hard to avoid paying you and others who deserve compensation following an accident or injury. Should you get into a car wreck or get hurt on the job, and then hop on the phone with an insurance adjuster, they’re...

Nov

Collisions With Pedestrians

November 1, 2017adminPersonal Injury

THE SAD STATISTICS When a pedestrian and a car, truck and or motorcycle collide, the vehicle always wins. In 2015, over 32,000 people lost their lives in automobile crashes in the United States. That was a 7.7 percent increase over 2014. The number of people killed while walking or biking is rising even faster. In […]

Jun

Two Workers’ Vehicles Collide In Miami, Florida

June 2, 2017adminPersonal Injury, Workers Compensation

No one ever leaves for work in the morning expecting to collide with another vehicle, but that’s exactly what happened in South Florida recently. Employees from two different companies collided with each other on the streets in North Miami. One injured individual was employed as a mental health facility. The other worked for the United […]

Mar

Does Your Employer Carry Workers’ Compensation Coverage?

March 13, 2017adminPersonal Injury

There is an on-line insurance coverage database set up by the Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation to help injured workers find out if their employer has secured this required insurance coverage in case they suffered an injury at the job. The link is https://apps8.fldfs.com/proofofcoverage/Search.aspx The Division of Workers’ Compensation is in place to make sure […]

Jul

New Florida Law Defines Negligence In Workers’ Compensation Cases

July 12, 2016adminPersonal Injury

Whether or not a person was negligent is the pivotal issue in all cases alleging carelessness, but Florida law carves out a difference between ordinary negligence and gross negligence. That distinction arose in the context of a case involving a construction worker who was injured on the job, and it was addressed by a Florida […]

Apr

Employee Injured in Construction Site Accident

April 28, 2015Evan OstfeldPersonal Injury, Workers Compensation

A construction worker employed by All Florida Electric was recently injured in an electrical trench collapse during the renovation of the Stephen C. O’Connell Center on the campus of the University of Florida. The injured worker was helping to install an underground electrical conduit at the facility. The employee’s legs were pinned. He was removed […]

Feb

Two Construction Workers Injured When Wall Falls

February 19, 2015Evan OstfeldPersonal Injury, Workers Compensation

Two construction workers in downtown Miami had the surprise of a lifetime when a wall fell down on top of them at the construction site where they were working. According to fire and rescue personnel, coworkers who were on the same floor where the accident took place assisted in pulling the trapped men out from […]

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