Attorney Shares Insight on a Jacksonville Car Accident Case

People, when they’re involved in accidents, they really get involved, they get tied up in the accident report. You know, what did the accident report say? Who got the ticket? Who didn’t get the ticket? And what comes to my mind is a case that we handled where our client was struck by a commercial vehicle.

The client came to us kind of concerned, saying, “Well, really, do I even have a claim? The officer who investigated the case did not issue a citation to the other driver.” Well, what our client didn’t know is that in Florida, the fact that you did or did not receive a ticket is not admissible in a court of law.

The liability, or how the accident occurred, has to be proven by us, and we prove it by witness statements, by the physical evidence.  You have to prove how the accident happened. That’s what we did in this case. We were able to secure almost a $2 million resolution for somebody who thought that the other side maybe didn’t cause the accident because he didn’t get a ticket.  And that’s where we stepped in, and we were able to prove how the accident happened.