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I Just Had A Car Accident, How Long Does My Case Take?

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You are probably wondering, how long does my case? Your case will depend on a lot of factors. If you have big injuries and there is a low policy, many times the insurance company would not want to pay right away because they know they are putting their clients at risk. This does not mean that it’s a good position for you because depending on circumstances, that may be all that you can get. Now, there are all the things that can happen within that, but it gets a bit more complicated. The insurance company in good effort must do everything compliant with the demands of the compliant. That is the first. Next, you have big injuries, bad injuries- big policy. Yes, that sounds like a good idea, however sometimes when the policy is big, the insurance company will fight it because they have enough money to fight it. With that being said, if you bad injuries and big policy, the chances of recovery are much greater. Case scenario number three, you have little injuries, big policy. The insurance company has a lot of money to fight, so it takes much longer to settle the case. Case option number four, you have big injuries, decent policy. Now, this is a more realistic scenario. When this happens, you have bad injuries and your coverage is valued out what the injuries could be, now the insurance offer is more reasonable. Tampa personal injury lawyer Edward Reyes represents people in Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida who have suffered an injury in an incident or accident type of accident. Speak Directly to Me, At No Cost, Today 813.421.3411 At the end of the day, the insurance company has adjusters that work for them. Their job is to adjust claims down. Their job is not to pay you, but they are trying to reduce the amount for their company. That is what they are paid to do, so do not take it personally. They do not know you; they only know what’s on paper. So, if you feel that the adjusters are not treating you fairly, that is where we have to put more pressure, we have to use techniques so they raise the offer and we may have to file a suit. By filing suit, it comes in the hands of the adjusters and goes to the hands of another person which is the litigation adjuster and an attorney. If you have questions on this, call us at 813.421.3411. (Transcript from the video, transcribed but not reviewed)

Slip and fall
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Slip, Falls and Premise Liability

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Liability is when you’re injured inside a premise, a building, a structure of somebody or a company or likewise. It could be that you’re injured in someone’s home. It could be that you’re injured in their yard. It could be that you’re inside a company, like a grocery store, and you slip and you fell. It could be that you’re in an apartment complex, and you slipped and you fell. Or going down the stairs, you may have slipped and fallen because the stairs were improperly placed on that stairway. Premise liability is different than regular car accidents and regular personal injury in the sense that instead of going after car insurance, you’re going after liability insurance that that company or those homeowners may have a homeowner’s coverages, or that company may have it as liability coverage for incidences for injuries. Every case is different, and there’s still a duty to mitigate, which means if you had an injury from falling down, and you decided not to go to the doctor, and you decided not to get help for any reason, and you made the condition worse. Tampa personal injury lawyer Edward Reyes represents people in Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida who have suffered an injury in an incident or accident type of accident. Speak Directly to Me, At No Cost, Today 813.421.3411 Well, the other insurance company, or the insurance company even though you’re not at fault, is going to deduct part of your injuries and your recovery because you didn’t mitigate or reduce the number of losses that you could’ve saved. As well as, if it was Open and Obvious. If you went to a store, and you saw that the floor was wet, you saw that there was a stack of books there, you saw, or it could’ve been there for a period that you could’ve seen it, and at that point, it’s going to raise an argument of Open and Obvious. That does not mean that it’s a grand slam on the other side, that just means it creates issues when fighting the case because they’re going to claim Open and Obvious. On the flip side to that, if it’s a condition that is not readily visible to you, but it’s been there for a long period of time, that’s also considered constructive notice. So when you’re dealing with premise liability, either slip and falls or just general premise liability, the issues that come up are Open and Obvious on their side and constructive notice. And then, of course, the injuries itself, and the number of damages, and the duty to mitigate. If you have any questions about this, feel free to give us a call. Our number is 813-421-3411. (Transcript from the video, transcribed but not reviewed)

Where Do Injuries Come From After a Car Accident
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Where Do Injuries Come From After a Car Accident?

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After a crash, the question is rarely just “does it hurt?” It is “why does it hurt here, and why didn’t it hurt yesterday?” The forces in a collision can injure parts of your body you would never expect, and some of those injuries stay silent for days. Understanding where post-crash pain comes from helps you protect both your health and your injury claim. The Reyes Firm Hurting After a Crash in Tampa? Even hidden injuries deserve to be documented and valued. Had a bad day? Contact Us Now 24-72 Hrs When delayed symptoms often appear Adrenaline and inflammation 14 Days Deadline to seek care for PIP Fla. Stat. § 627.736(1)(a) Permanent Injury finding needed for pain and suffering Fla. Stat. § 627.737(2) 2 Years Deadline to file an injury claim Fla. Stat. § 95.11 A collision sends sudden, violent forces through the body, and those forces do not stop at the surface. They travel through muscles, joints, the spine, and even the brain, sometimes causing damage that is not obvious for days. Knowing the common sources of post-crash injury helps you take your symptoms seriously and get the care and documentation you need. Where do injuries come from after a car accident? Injuries after a crash come from the rapid transfer of force through your body at the moment of impact. Even a low-speed collision can generate enough energy to stretch, tear, compress, or jolt the structures that hold you together. Because a crash affects the whole body at once, it is common to have more than one injury, and to have injuries in places that took the indirect force rather than the direct hit. That is why post-crash pain can be confusing. The part of you that hurts the most may not be the part that was struck, and the injury doing the most long-term damage may be the one you notice last. What are the most common sources of post-crash pain? Most injuries after a car accident trace back to a handful of structures, each with its own pattern: Muscles, ligaments, and tendons. The classic example is whiplash, where the head snaps back and forth and strains the soft tissues of the neck. These injuries cause pain and stiffness that often build over the following days. Spinal discs. The cushions between your vertebrae can bulge or herniate under crash forces, pressing on nearby nerves and causing back or neck pain, sometimes with radiating symptoms. Facet joints. The small joints that connect the vertebrae can be injured and become a persistent source of spine pain, which doctors sometimes investigate with a medial branch block. Nerves. When a disc, joint, or swelling presses on a nerve, the result can be numbness, tingling, weakness, or shooting pain that travels down an arm or leg. Bones and joints. Fractures and joint damage to the shoulders, wrists, knees, ribs, and pelvis are common, especially where the body braced against the impact. The brain. A traumatic brain injury or concussion can occur even without striking your head, because the same motion that causes whiplash can shift the brain inside the skull. The most severe crashes can cause a spinal cord injury or other catastrophic harm, but even injuries that seem minor at first can have a lasting impact if they are not properly diagnosed and treated. Why don’t injuries always hurt right away? One of the most important things to understand after a crash is that feeling fine at the scene does not mean you were not hurt. In the moments after a collision, your body floods with adrenaline and stress hormones that mask pain and let you function. As those hormones fade over the first 24 to 72 hours, the true extent of your injuries begins to surface. Inflammation plays a role too. When muscles, ligaments, and nerves are injured, the body’s inflammatory response builds gradually, peaking a day or two later. Medical authorities such as the Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic note that whiplash and concussion symptoms in particular often take time to appear, which is why so many people feel fine driving away from a crash and wake up in serious pain two mornings later. 💡 Did You Know? Because serious injuries can stay hidden for days, Florida’s 14-day rule matters more than most people realize. You must seek initial medical care within 14 days of a crash to keep your Personal Injury Protection benefits. Waiting because you feel fine can cost you both your health and the coverage you already pay for. Source: Fla. Stat. § 627.736(1)(a). Why can pain show up somewhere other than the injury? Post-crash pain often appears in a different place than the injury itself, a phenomenon doctors call referred or radiating pain. It happens because the body’s nerves are interconnected. A herniated disc or an irritated nerve root in your neck, for example, can produce pain, numbness, or weakness that travels into your shoulder, arm, or hand, even though the source of the problem is your spine. This is exactly why the location of your pain does not always reveal its cause, and why proper diagnosis matters so much. Chasing the symptom instead of the source can mean treating the wrong thing, which is frustrating for you and useful to an insurer looking to argue your injury is not serious. ⚠️ Deadline Warning: Under Florida Statute § 95.11, you generally have two years from the date of your crash to file a personal injury lawsuit, even for an injury that took days or weeks to reveal itself. This was shortened from four years in March 2023. Do not let a hidden injury run out the clock on your claim. Why does finding the true source of your injury matter? Finding the real source of your pain matters for two reasons. Medically, an accurate diagnosis is the foundation of effective treatment, since treating the symptom rather than the source rarely resolves the problem. Legally, a documented diagnosis connects your symptoms to a specific injury

Car accidents are the Most Common Accidents
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Car accidents are the Most Common Accidents

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Accidents are the most common forms of incidents on the road. Just in Hillsborough County, there’s close to 3,000 car accidents, per day, in Polk, Pasco, Pinellas. In almost every other county, there is an average of 2,000 to 25, to 3,000 car accidents per day. Even though that number sounds staggering, there are hundreds of thousands of cars on the road every single day. So, the more cars that are on the road, the greater the risk of car accidents happening. Car accidents, many times on bumper-to-bumper traffic, between eight in the morning till six p.m., are typically non-fatal accidents when they’re on regular roads. Car accidents, when they’re on the interstate, because of the higher speeds, there are fewer accidents but they’re typically more fatal than other incidents that are on local roads. Car accidents, if the person that crashed into you, could’ve avoided the accident, due to their negligence of speeding, following to close, careless driving, they would be the one at fault. Florida is a no-clause state, which that means if you’re involved in a car accident, your insurance company covers you for your injuries, and your medical payments up to $10,000 if it’s an emergency medical condition. You do not need to go to the hospital to get the emergency medical condition, you may have to see a physician, or a doctor, or a chiropractic doctor, to evaluate you and then eventually you will have to go to an MD, or a DO, or something like that. MD, which is a medical doctor, and DO is also a form of a medical doctor, as well. To qualify from the $2500 that the insurance company caps you up to the $10,000 of insurance benefits. Car accidents, when the person that crashes into you, if they have bodily injury coverages, that’s the part that helps us, as a law firm, help you recover for your injuries, pain, and suffering, and loss of enjoyment. If the person that crashes into you has non-sufficient insurance or no insurance, if you carry uninsured motorist on your policy, that uninsured motorist will cover you for any offset that the other side did not have. Tampa personal injury lawyer Edward Reyes represents people in Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida who have suffered an injury in an incident or accident type of accident. Speak Directly to Me, At No Cost, Today 813.421.3411 For example, if you had a, if the person that crashed into you had a $10,000 bodily injury policy, and your injuries are worth $30,000, but you had a $20,000 uninsured motorist policy, that $10,000 would pay for the at-fault party, the person that caused the accident, and the $20,000 would pay for your insurance to make you whole. Not always does it make you whole, because many times if that’s the case, you may not have enough uninsured motorist, or they have enough bodily injury coverage that you don’t have to even impact your own policy. Every case is a little bit different, every auto accident is a little bit different. Auto accidents, it’s easier to find liability when it’s a rear-end collision, however, there are cases where there are T-bone collisions, there are cases where there’s making left-turn collisions, cases where people are making U-turns. So, every case is a little bit different. If you have any questions about auto accidents, feel free to reach out to us, it’s 813-421-3411. (Transcript from the video, transcribed but not reviewed)

Make A Claim in the Taxi Company
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Can I Make A Claim in the Taxi Company?

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People still use taxis. Not as often anymore. But taxis, many times they’re self-insured. Sometimes they have commercial policies. Sometimes they’re owned by the taxi car, they’re owned by individual people and they just pay to put the taxi symbol on their car. That changes the dynamic quite a bit because if they’re paying the company to put the tag on the car, they may have a higher policy, personal policy but we may not be able to go after taxi company. However, if they’re en route and they’re currently working as a taxi driver, if we ever had to make a claim, we would still make a claim to the taxi company and then that taxi company, if they paid anything, may segregate back from the person that caused the accident, which is their driver. Tampa personal injury lawyer Edward Reyes represents people in Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida who have suffered an injury in an incident or accident type of accident. Speak Directly to Me, At No Cost, Today 813.421.3411 If that taxi company is self-insured, you will look at that taxi company’s liability coverages to cover you for any injuries that that taxi negligent driver may have caused. Let’s say you’re in a taxi and someone crashes into the taxi, at that point, it’s not the taxi driver. It’s the person that caused the accident which would be the at-fault party. Then those entities or those peoples, yourself would make a claim against the people who actually caused the accident. Let’s say you are a passenger in a taxi company, and the taxi company crashes into somebody else, you can still make a claim towards that taxi driver, or the taxi driver’s company. We can definitely go through the process. Every case is a little bit different. If you have any questions, please reach out to us. Our number is 813-421-3411. (Transcript from the video, transcribed but not reviewed)

Percutaneous Disc Decompression
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Percutaneous Disc Decompression

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Disc decompression is an alternative to the surgery for a herniated disc. Some types of herniated discs can be treated without surgery. When the disc meets certain conditions, we can go, again with a cannula, a big needle, and we put a little drill through that cannula into the disc and when we get to the center of the disc, we drill a few, we call them “channels of destruction”. What we create is a lesion in the middle of the disc. That lesion is going to create a scarring process. That scarring process, like any scar, is going to retract. The symptoms go away very, very quickly. There is no further need to do anything else. Tampa personal injury lawyer Edward Reyes represents people in Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida who have suffered an injury in an incident or accident type of accident. Speak Directly to Me, At No Cost, Today 813.421.3411 Now you cannot do this on every herniation. So, many will still need surgery, so we have to evaluate the individual case to say. But it is a great alternative, and then it depends on the person whether or not, and that’s something that they would have to come in, and you’d have to check them, you’d have to do an MRI, I imagine, or X-Rays? We absolutely need the MRI and we need to see what the symptoms are and it’s also very important to know if there’s than one disc that is herniated. Call 813.421.3411 now. (Transcript from the video, transcribed but not reviewed)

Rejuvenate and Repair
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Rejuvenate and Repair

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I know there’s a growing trend in stem cells. In fact, and I did, you know, I have a shoulder injury and they did a PR. What is PRP? The PRP is plasma Platelet-rich plasma. In stem cell therapy we collectively call regenerative medicine and it’s in its infancy. We’re just starting to see all the potential and uses of it. But I do believe that it is, by far, the future of orthopedics. With stem cells, you can regenerate cartilage. Arthritis is the degeneration, usually by age or overuse of cartilage, which is the surface of joints. When you lose that, as of now, you can’t get that back. So, once you have arthritis, you can’t get it back. Well, stem cells, you can inject stem cells that are going to grow into new cartilage. Imagine you’re 80 years old, your knees hurt all the time, they crack every time you move them, and then I come with a needle, inject a few stem cells in your knee and they repopulate the cartilage. They create new cartilage, and now your knee is like a 20-year-old knee. – That’s like the Fountain of Youth, kind of. Kind of, because, I mean, I know that I have pain in my knees and my shoulder, you know, from multiple things and I’m sure I have arthritis somewhere, but that’s pretty interesting to me because a lot of people, especially in personal injury, you know, they want to say it’s arthritic, and sometimes it is arthritic, sometimes it’s not arthritis, but this is taking it to another step because now, not only are you treating their pain, you’re able to treat the arthritic condition to repair that.⁣ Rebuilding Yourself That’s a fair statement, but you could almost rebuild a person, you know, as far as in that area I mean, you can. What happens to us when we age? We lose our cartilage. Arthritis is what ages us. When you’re 80 years old, you can have a great heart, great lungs, great kidneys, but your bones, your joints, are suffering. And if we could regenerate those, imagine all the things that we can achieve. Maybe we can live for 120 years, 130 years. So, as long as your organs are functioning properly and your blood flows, and things like that, I mean, you could essentially. You could have a good life, even as an elderly person, which is, you know, we work all our lives hoping to retire and then when we retire, we can’t move, can’t do anything, because of arthritic conditions, et cetera. Arthritic conditions also come from car accidents, is that correct? – No, in car accidents, what the uses of regenerative medicines are to repair broken ligaments and tendons, because the tears from those, they take a very long time, we’re talking years. A very common example is of whiplash, a syndrome in the neck after those rear-ending accidents. Tampa personal injury lawyer Edward Reyes represents people in Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida who have suffered an injury in an incident or accident type of accident. Speak Directly to Me, At No Cost, Today 813.421.3411 There’s a lot of tears in those ligaments that can take years to repair, and through those years, the pains are suffering from pain in the neck, headaches. This regenerative medicine can accelerate the recovery of those ligaments, weeks of recovery, in the knees. Another very typical one is tennis elbow, for example, which is, contrary to what you may think, it occurs mostly on injuries, might be personal injury, et cetera, not so much in tennis players. – I can see that. I mean, weightlifting, I can see that too. Is that when you extend your elbow. Yeah.⁣- All the time, yeah. – Feel like I’m getting old.⁣- Those where you’re doing dumbbells like this.⁣ Then that tennis elbow is painful. Call us today at 813.421.3411 for more information. (Transcript from the video, transcribed but not reviewed)

Do you have Drugs on You
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Do you have Drugs on You?

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A very common thing that happens in these search and seizures for a case is frequently the drugs are not even found on the defendant. So, one of two things or both things happen. An officer might not have probable cause to search the car, but might ask for consent to search, or say something like, “You have any drugs on you?” Now a traffic stop is not a seizure in the sense of an arrest, so technically it’s a consensual encounter. That doesn’t mean you can drive away from any traffic stop, but it does mean that the officer doesn’t have to read you, Miranda. So, what happens a lot is people feel like they’re being detained but they’re not. They’re not compelled to answer in any way. They’re not compelled to submit, to either questioning or to a search. So typically, people spill the beans. Tampa personal injury lawyer Edward Reyes represents people in Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida who have suffered an injury in an incident or accident type of accident. Speak Directly to Me, At No Cost, Today 813.421.3411 They say, “Yeah, I have drugs in the glove compartment” or, “Sure you can search the car, sure you can search me.” They get out of the car and they say, “Sure, you can search me.” Even though they knew full well that they have drugs on them, or they have drugs in the car. For more information, call us today. (Transcript from the video, transcribed but not reviewed)

Insurance Companies Value your Claim
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This is how the Insurance Companies Value your Claim

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You’re probably wondering what are the insurance company looking at when they look at your claim? How do they value your claim? Well, they value it in multiple ways. One, they look at property damage. They look at the damage to your car to see how bad was the impact if, for example, if somebody rear-ended you, they look at the collision, the impact, the crushing, things like that. They look at your car, what type of car you have and what type of car the other person has as well. They also look at injuries. Injuries are, above all, the most important thing. They look at, did their car, did the at-fault party, the other driver, did they substantially cause the injuries to your body or to your self? If the damage is small, the property damage is small, but the injuries are great, that becomes an issue, but at least, if they are higher injuries, it could still mean that they caused that accident. Then they look at history. Were you involved in other car accidents? Were you involved in other injuries? Slip, falls, anything of that nature. It’s very important for them to look at everything because the insurance companies, they’re not your friend. Tampa personal injury lawyer Edward Reyes represents people in Tampa and Hillsborough County, Florida who have suffered an injury in an incident or accident type of accident. Speak Directly to Me, At No Cost, Today 813.421.3411 They’re trying to value the case as low as possible, to offer as low as possible. That’s why they’re called adjusters. They’re adjusting the claim down. So, it’s very important for us to document everything correctly and it’s very important for us to create the story of your life. How has it affected you, not just your pain, but how has it affected your life? How has it affected your life with your kids? How has it affected your life with loved ones, hobbies, activities, things of that nature? So, it’s not just a one-size-fits-all, most people complain about back pain, it’s not just about back pain, it’s other issues that we use to complete the story to present the story to the insurance company. That’s how they value the injuries. Property damage is very important, in addition, the injuries are very important. So, everybody’s injuries are going to be a little bit differently, everybody’s going to be different in their own way. If you have any questions on this, feel free to give us a call at 813-421-3411. (Transcript from the video, transcribed but not reviewed)

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