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Winter Haven Florida Personal Injury & Accident Lawyers Near You

Our Experienced Personal Injury & Accident Attorneys Represent the Injured in Winter Haven

Winter Haven, Florida is the home of many of our friends and clients. Due to its humid subtropical climate, at its best during the winter months, it didn’t take us long to figure out how Winter Haven got its name.

In terms of natural features, we can’t decide which one we like better – the Chain of Lakes with its fishing, boating, and skiing opportunities, or the Legoland Florida botanical gardens.

In our opinion, however, the best attribute of Winter Haven is the friendliness and authenticity of its people.

Winter Haven Injury Lawyers

Unfortunately, however, Winter Haven is no more immune than anywhere else from hidden dangers that only surface when an accident occurs. Texting motorists, carelessly manufactured pharmaceuticals, overworked medical staff, and vicious dogs are several among a multitude of dangers that could turn a tranquil life into a nightmare in the space of an instant.

The damage done to your life by a serious accident can be multidimensional. Pain and disability, shock and fear, interruption of your lifestyle, and sudden financial difficulties all compete for your attention just when you are in the worst position to deal with them.

Perhaps the worst part of the experience is finding out that your accident wouldn’t have happened except for the inexcusable carelessness of someone else. We understand the anger you must feel when you try to obtain fair compensation, only to find that the responsible party is playing games with you in an attempt to avoid paying up.

A Winter Haven Injury Attorney Will Stop the Gamesmanship

At Abrahamson & Uiterwyk, our Winter Haven personal injury lawyers don’t let anyone play games with our clients – and when they try to play games with us, they find themselves in over their heads very quickly.

After 30 years of practice, 20,000 personal injury clients, and over 100 years of combined practice experience, we have seen it all – there is not much that could happen in a personal injury case that we haven’t seen before. Personal injury law is what we do, and it is all we do.

You won’t see us defending drug dealers or writing business contracts – you’ll only see us helping injured victims seek the justice they deserve.

Our Winter Haven Personal Injury Practice Areas

Car Accident Lawyers

Florida is one of the nation’s most dangerous states to drive in, second only to California and Texas in terms of sheer carnage. Furthermore, the accident rate has been increasing over the past 5 to 10 years, due largely to texting while driving and similar activities.

If you are injured in a Florida car accident, it is likely that the accident was somebody’s fault. Even if you were partly at fault, you might still be eligible for compensation. Speak to a car accident lawyer today.

Drunk Driving Accident Lawyers

No accident is more avoidable than a drunken-driving accident. Drunken driving is reckless behavior, well beyond the minimum threshold of carelessness needed to establish financial liability.

You don’t need a DUI conviction to win a civil lawsuit over a drunken driving accident – in fact, sometimes you can win even if the defendant was acquitted in criminal court.

Bicycle Accident Lawyers

A bicycle is perhaps the most vulnerable vehicle on the road, yet even a child can legally ride a bicycle down a busy thoroughfare.

Bicycle accidents tend to be serious, and children are disproportionately represented among bicycle accident victims.

A bicycle accident may be caused by a bicycle malfunction or by a motorist’s unawareness of its presence, among other causes.

Brain Injury Lawyers

Because the brain is the body’s command and control system, a serious brain injury can result in catastrophic medical expenses and a lifetime of lost earnings, not to mention tremendous emotional trauma.

In some cases, you might not even be aware of a brain injury for quite some time after the accident, and you might not even connect your symptoms to the incident that caused it.

Product Liability Attorneys

Product liability law applies to injuries caused by defective products such as food, pharmaceuticals, household appliances, auto parts, or medical devices to name a few.

Many injuries could have been avoided if the manufacturer or designer had paid more attention to consumer safety.

Birth Injury Attorneys

Injuries during childbirth are surprisingly common, and they can affect both the baby and the mother. In many cases, the hard part is tracing the injury to medical malpractice. For that, you will probably need the services of an experienced medical malpractice law firm.

We have represented clients in hundreds of birth injury cases.

Pedestrian Accident Lawyers

Florida is, unfortunately, one of the least pedestrian-friendly states in the national, consistently ranking near the top of the pedestrian accident statistics in terms of both total numbers of injuries and deaths and the highest accident rate per capita.

Competent representation is essential in a pedestrian accident case because it is easier to “win” a case than to secure the full amount of compensation to which you are entitled.

We also handle the following types of cases:

Since this is only a partial list of the types of cases we handle, feel free to contact us if your injury doesn’t fit neatly into one of the aforementioned categories.

Winter Haven Personal Injury FAQs

Sometimes you can, but legal restrictions make winning a lawsuit against the government a more difficult undertaking than winning a lawsuit against a private party. The reason for these restrictions is that when you sue the government, the judgment must be paid by taxpayers. You generally cannot sue the government for negligent planning, but you can often sue it for negligent execution.

You probably cannot sue the state of Florida, for example, for failing to place a guardrail along a dangerous curve, but you might be able to sue if the guardrail failed because it was negligently installed by a state employee.

Damages are limited in such lawsuits, and you must comply with special procedures.

An accident reconstruction specialist is someone who applies scientific principles to the physical evidence of an accident to help determine facts relevant to the case, such as who was at fault.

An accident reconstruction specialist might use stopping distances based on well-established physics, for example, to determine that a drunken driver could not have stopped in time to avoid an accident even if he or she had been sober. Accident reconstruction specialists can be used as witnesses by either side.

Yes, you can, and there are many ways to win such a lawsuit. Nursing homes are regulated by a multitude of state and federal regulations. If you can prove that the defendant nursing home violated a regulation, and that this regulation harmed the resident for whom you are suing, you can win the lawsuit.

In some cases, it is possible to win a lawsuit against a nursing home without even proving that the nursing home violated a regulation, since even a library full of regulations cannot anticipate every possible circumstance.

Yes, under limited circumstances. Florida’s dram shop law allows you to sue a nightclub for serving alcohol to a customer who injured you, under two alternative circumstances – (i) the customer was a minor (under 21), or (ii) the customer was known to be “habitually addicted” to alcohol.

Florida’s dram shop law, unfortunately, is harder for accident victims to use than the dram shop laws of most other states; in many states, for example, serving an obviously intoxicated customer is enough to trigger dram shop liability for a subsequent car accident.

You should file a claim against the drug manufacturer, and perhaps also the distributor and/or retailer of the drug.

If your doctor prescribed the drug to you, you might also have a claim against your doctor.

Remember that a drug does not have to be dangerous to everyone to be considered defective. A drug might have a “warning defect,” for example, if its packaging failed to contain a warning that it should not be used by pregnant women.

Get a Free Consultation With a Winter Haven Injury Attorney Today

At Abrahamson & Uiterwyk, we focus on aggressive and prompt representation, so that we can seek full compensation for your injuries as quickly as possible. You won’t need to put up any money upfront – we work on a “no win, no pay” system, meaning you pay no fees or costs unless we win.

Although we focus on a settlement, we will take your case to court if the other side refuses to cooperate. At Abrahamson & Uiterwyk, we have experienced trial attorneys that, at times, are hired by other law firms for their cases.

If you live or work in Winter Haven, call us today toll-free 24/7 at 866-511-2605, or contact us online to schedule a cost-free, obligation-free consultation of your claim. We can conduct a telephone evaluation or even meet you at your home or office in Winter Haven. Contact us 24/7 and you will find a representative standing by to take your call.

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