Hurt On The Job And Need A Florida Construction Accident Lawyer? You May Have More Rights Than Workers Comp Alone.
A construction injury can put your income, your health and your family’s stability at risk all at once, and too many workers assume a workers compensation claim is the end of the story. Often it is not. Depending on how you were hurt, you may also have a separate claim against another company that puts far more on the table. Our Florida construction accident lawyers make sure you claim everything you are owed, from every source, while you focus on getting back on your feet.
Workers Comp Is Often Only Half Of It.
Workers compensation covers your medical care and part of your lost wages, but it does not pay for your pain and suffering. Separately, if someone other than your employer helped cause your injury, you may also have a third-party claim.
Workers Compensation Benefits
Your workers comp claim can cover medical care and part of the wages you lose while the injury keeps you from working.
A Separate Third-Party Claim
If another company or person contributed to the accident, a separate injury claim may exist alongside workers compensation.
Damages Comp Does Not Cover
A third-party claim can pursue damages such as pain and suffering that workers compensation does not provide.
Every Responsible Source
Subcontractors, property owners, equipment manufacturers and careless drivers on site may create additional paths to recovery.
Finding that additional claim is one of the most valuable things we do for injured construction workers.
What A Serious Site Injury Really Costs.
Construction injuries are often severe. Between workers compensation and any available third-party claim, we map out every source of recovery and pursue them together so nothing you are entitled to is left behind.
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Medical Bills
Current treatment, surgery, rehabilitation, prescriptions and the medical care you may still need in the future.
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Lost Wages
Income lost while you cannot work and the financial pressure created while your household still has bills to meet.
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Lost Earning Power
If you cannot return to the same physical work, the claim must account for what that changes about your future earning ability.
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Pain And Long-Term Impact
A third-party claim may also pursue pain and suffering and the lasting effect of a permanent or disabling injury.
We Know What Is Really On Your Mind.
When you work with your hands, an injury is not an abstract legal matter, it is your ability to provide. The worry is immediate: how the bills get paid, whether you will be able to do this job again, what happens to your family in the meantime. On top of that, some workers fear that speaking up will cost them their standing on the job. You have the right to pursue what you are owed, and we handle it in a way that protects you. Our job is to take the legal fight off your plate so you can concentrate on healing and getting back to work.
Your job matters. Your income matters. Your family's stability matters.
We look beyond the immediate injury to what the accident changes about your work, your finances and your future.
When Safety Rules Were IgnoredThat Is Your Evidence.
Employers and contractors have legal duties to keep a site reasonably safe, address known hazards, train workers and provide proper safety equipment in line with federal OSHA standards.
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Recognize And Address Hazards.
Known dangers on the site should be identified, corrected or controlled before they injure someone.
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Train Workers Properly.
Workers need the training, information and supervision required to perform dangerous tasks safely.
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Provide Safety Equipment.
Where hazards cannot be eliminated, the proper protective equipment and safety systems must be provided and maintained.
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Warn About Known Risks.
Workers should be told about dangers they may encounter so they can take the precautions the work requires.
A safety failure is not just a rule violation. It can help show who fell short.
We use those failures to identify responsibility and support a third-party claim where another company’s negligence played a part.
You Deserve A Lawyer Who Treats Your Case Like It Matters.
We are a boutique firm on purpose. Fewer clients, closer attention, and the same attorneys on your case from the first call to the last. You will not be handed to a case manager or left wondering what is happening, and it costs you nothing to find out where you stand, because you pay no fee unless we win. For our clients, that is the difference between feeling like a file number and feeling genuinely cared for.
Direct, focused representation from start to finish.
Your case stays close to the attorneys responsible for the evidence, experts, contractor and insurer communications and litigation strategy.
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How The Injuries We Handle Happen.
Construction is among the most dangerous work there is. Whatever happened to you, the question we start with is simple: whose failure caused it, and which claims does that open up for you?
Falls From Heights
Falls from scaffolding, ladders, roofs and elevated work areas can cause devastating injuries when fall protection fails.
Struck-By And Collapse Accidents
Falling tools, materials, objects and structural collapses can injure workers who had little or no chance to react.
Machinery, Crushing And Electrocution
Caught-in accidents, heavy machinery and contact with live electrical systems can cause catastrophic harm in seconds.
Defective Equipment And Cranes
Poorly maintained equipment, defective tools, cranes and heavy machinery can create claims beyond workers compensation.
How Can Florida Construction Accident Lawyers Help?
The legal team protects your workers compensation benefits while investigating whether the accident also created a separate third-party claim.
Protect The Workers Comp Claim
Help preserve access to medical care and wage benefits while the injury and work restrictions are documented properly.
Investigate Every Third Party
Examine subcontractors, property owners, equipment manufacturers, drivers and other companies whose negligence may have contributed.
Preserve Site Evidence
Secure photographs, video, witness information, accident reports, safety records and other evidence before the site changes.
Review OSHA And Safety Failures
Use training records, hazard controls, protective equipment and site practices to identify where required safety measures broke down.
Document The Full Damages
Build the claim around treatment, wage loss, earning power, pain and the lasting effects of serious injury.
Handle Both Insurance Systems
Deal with the workers comp carrier and any third-party insurer so one claim is not allowed to undermine the other.
Remember Whose Side The Insurance Company Is On.
Insurance companies are not in business to pay out claims, and that is true of both the workers comp insurer and any third party’s insurer. They may downplay your injury, push you back to work too soon, or settle a third-party claim cheaply before its full value is clear. We handle the insurers for you, protect your comp benefits, and make sure any additional claim is valued properly.
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Accident Reports
Employer and site reports can help establish when, where and how the construction accident occurred.
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Site Photographs And Video
Images can preserve dangerous conditions, missing protection, equipment placement and the state of the site before it changes.
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Witness Accounts
Coworkers, subcontractors and others on site may have seen the hazard, the accident or earlier problems.
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Safety And Training Records
Training documents, inspection records and safety procedures may show whether required precautions were actually in place.
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Equipment And Maintenance Evidence
Maintenance logs, equipment history and technical evidence may identify a defective or poorly maintained machine as a third-party cause.
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Medical And Work Restrictions
Your medical records and work restrictions help show why returning too soon could put both your recovery and your claim at risk.
Evidence That Can Clarify Responsibility
Workers compensation benefits are available regardless of fault. On a separate third-party claim, you can usually still recover as long as you were not more than half to blame, with your share reducing the amount. We look at the full evidence before accepting an insurer’s attempt to put the accident on you.
Construction sites change quickly. Preserving the condition, equipment and records early can be critical to proving who caused the accident and which claims are available.
Scott Marshall
Three decades of experience fighting your corner.
Scott Marshall founded this firm in 1997 on a simple belief: to serve people well, you have to know them. Nearly three decades and hundreds of clients later, that has not changed. Scott is a trial lawyer who is not afraid to take a case the distance, AV Preeminent rated by his peers and a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a group reserved for attorneys who have won multi-million dollar results.
He speaks English, Spanish, French and Swedish, so more Floridians can tell their story in their own words and be truly understood. When you work with this firm, that experience is the standard behind your case.
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Peer recognition for professional ability and ethical standards.
Years of Practice
Experience built through complex injury, wrongful death and workers’ compensation matters.
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Questions Injured Workers
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These answers are a starting point. A free case review lets us look at both workers compensation and any separate third-party claim the accident may have created.
Can I sue if I am already getting workers comp?
Will making a claim cost me my job?
What if I was partly at fault?
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