You never thought that on the day you set out for lunch in Historic Downtown Cocoa Village that another motorist would try to run a red light and instead embroiled you in a front-end collision on State Road 520. Even with seat belts, the jarring impact and sudden stop caused devastating injuries. First, seek medical care and then seek legal care. Medical care heals your physical injuries, and legal care heals your financial ones caused by the accident.
When a careless or reckless motorist crashes into you head-on, they assume the tort liability for your injuries. Your car accident attorney must prove their negligence to prevail in a civil lawsuit, but negligence is also a powerful bargaining tool in insurance negotiations. You can be compensated for the physical, financial, and emotional damage the careless motorist causes. Front-end car accidents in Cocoa are serious, and so is The Umansky Law Firm when it comes to seeking compensation for your losses.
Front-end or head-on car wrecks are often catastrophic or fatal. The laws of physics dictate that when a moving object at any speed hits an impervious barrier, it will come to an immediate halt.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reported a 58 percent fatality rate for drivers and passengers in front-end crashes in a recent year. Fatal head-on crashes are more likely on rural roads, such as those near Lone Cabbage Fish Camp, with about 13 percent of all fatalities attributed to them, as opposed to 7 percent in urban areas. Front-end crashes are caused by:
Our attorneys painstakingly build negligence cases by first speaking at length with you and then collecting and assessing evidence that can include police and medical reports, witness testimony, area surveillance camera footage, cell phone pictures, and expert witness evaluations if it will help your case. The first avenue for compensation after front-end car crashes in Cocoa may be the negligent driver’s insurance company for settlement negotiations. But our attorneys will file a civil claim if a settlement offer does not meet our clients’ needs.
Violating any Florida traffic ordinance or statute that results in a ticket can be valuable evidence in a claim of negligence. Generally, our attorneys attempt to prove that the driver who injured you breached the standard of duty that a reasonable driver who shares the road safely would follow. But if the driver is ticketed for causing the foreseeable accident, the elements of duty and breach of duty are presumed in a doctrine called negligence per se. Your Cocoa attorney must still prove the ticketed front-end car accident caused your injuries.
Florida and all states adopt a statute of limitations that acts as a stopwatch for the time you have to file your claim. Florida’s 2024 tort reform included reducing that time for personal injury claims from four years to two years, with some exceptions. The Umansky Law Firm will meet those deadlines for you after front-end car crashes in Cocoa.
Because front-end crashes are among the deadliest, families who lose loved ones in them can file a wrongful death action if the decedent would have prevailed in a personal injury lawsuit.
Compensation for wrongful death could include final medical and burial expenses, the loss of financial support the decedent provided for the family, emotional trauma, and the family’s loss of companionship and guidance.
Although car accidents are a daily fact of life, you might not think about them much until they happen to you. You will have to deal with physical impairment and pain, financial stress, and emotional trauma someone else causes because they drove recklessly.
Call us. The attorneys that comprise The Umansky Law Firm dedicate themselves to representing injured parties who could benefit from our strong but caring guidance and our track record of winning large settlements and awards for them after front-end car accidents in Cocoa.
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