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SERVING FORT LAUDERDALE & BROWARD COUNTY
A serious injury can affect your income, independence, family responsibilities, and sense of what happens next. Miller & Jacobs helps people in Fort Lauderdale investigate the cause, preserve available evidence, identify applicable coverage, and document the full effect of the harm.
Free and confidential consultation. No attorney fee unless compensation is recovered for you.
YOU DO NOT NEED EVERY ANSWER
You do not need to know the legal category, name every responsible party, or arrive with a complete file. A useful first conversation should organize the facts you already know and identify the questions that matter next.
START A FREE CASE REVIEWDescribe the incident, when and where it occurred, and who was involved.
Explain the medical care, missed work, daily limits, and responsibilities affected by the injury.
A report, photograph, insurance message, or appointment record can help, but you do not need a complete file.
$150M+
REPORTED RECOVERIES
50+ YEARS
COMBINED EXPERIENCE
230+
COMBINED JURY TRIALS
WHERE DID THE HARM BEGIN?
Start with the setting closest to what happened. The exact legal category can be determined after the people, records, insurance, and losses are understood.
Busy roads may involve several policies or potentially responsible parties.
Visibility, right of way, roadway design, and vehicle data may all matter.
Coverage may depend on the driver’s status, the platform, the vehicle owner, or evidence of alcohol service.
Notice, inspections, video, lighting, maintenance, warnings, and prior incidents may shape a property claim.
Ownership, operator conduct, navigation, maintenance, weather, and jurisdiction can affect a boating claim.
Records, staffing, fall precautions, treatment decisions, and family communication may reveal preventable harm.
Serious claims may require proof of future care, reduced independence, lost earning ability, and the effect on a family.
Tell us what happened and how the injury has changed your life. We can listen, identify the legal questions, and help you understand what may come next.
WHAT CAN DISAPPEAR FIRST
Fort Lauderdale moves by road and water and draws people into hotels, apartments, offices, marinas, and entertainment districts. A useful investigation follows the setting.
Crash reports, vehicle data, roadway photographs, signal information, and camera footage may help explain a collision.
Incident reports, inspections, maintenance records, prior complaints, and surveillance may show what the owner knew.
Ownership, navigation data, maintenance, rental records, operator information, and witnesses may be important.
Treatment records, pay information, receipts, messages, and first-hand notes can connect the event to what changed.
A dangerous intersection, inadequate security, or alcohol service before a crash can affect what evidence should be preserved and who may be responsible. These resources explain the issues that may deserve a closer look.
PROTECT YOUR HEALTH AND THE RECORD
Health comes first. The next useful steps preserve what is already available and help prevent guesswork from becoming the only account of the incident.
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Get the care your symptoms require and follow the instructions you receive.
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Contact the appropriate agency, owner, employer, operator, or care facility.
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Keep photographs, video, names, reports, damaged property, receipts, and messages.
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Auto, commercial, property, umbrella, rideshare, and other policies may apply differently.
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A consultation can identify missing evidence, deadlines, and communications that deserve care.
REQUEST A FREE CONSULTATION →06
Save bills and pay records. Note missed activities, new help, and limits on ordinary life.
THE LIFE BEHIND THE NUMBERS
Medical bills matter, but they do not show the whole loss. Evidence may also need to explain effects on work, mobility, family responsibilities, independence, and ordinary life.
Available damages depend on the claim, proof, coverage, and Florida law. No calculator or first conversation can promise a value.
FROM FIRST REVIEW TO RESOLUTION
The right path depends on what the evidence supports, what coverage is available, and how the injury can be documented.
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Identify what is known, disputed, time-sensitive, and still missing.
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Evaluate each potentially responsible party and each policy that may respond.
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Organize medical care, income loss, future needs, costs, and daily-life changes.
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Explain responsibility and the losses with supporting records.
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When needed, completed work should support discovery, negotiation, and trial preparation.
Depending on venue and claim type, a Fort Lauderdale lawsuit may proceed through Broward County’s courts and the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit. The correct court and deadline depend on the facts.
ASK HOW THE PROCESS MAY APPLY →THREE RULES WORTH UNDERSTANDING
These are general rules, not a conclusion about an individual claim. The correct rule depends on the event, policy, evidence, and claim type.
PIP may apply without first deciding fault. Initial care generally must begin within 14 days. It generally pays 80% of qualifying medical expenses and 60% of covered lost income, subject to statutory and policy limits. Motorcycle claims differ.
READ FLORIDA’S PIP LAW →Florida law gives many negligence and wrongful-death actions a two-year limit. Medical malpractice, government claims, matters involving minors, and other claims may have different rules.
READ FLORIDA’S LIMITATIONS LAW →Covered PIP follows a different analysis. Negligence damages may be reduced by a person’s share of fault and may be barred above 50%, subject to exceptions and claim type.
READ FLORIDA’S COMPARATIVE-FAULT LAW →THE RECORD BEHIND THE WORK
Miller & Jacobs reports more than $150 million in verdicts and settlements. Mark Miller and Rick Jacobs have each been members of The Florida Bar since 1995 and report more than 230 jury trials combined.
Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every matter depends on its facts, evidence, available coverage, injuries, and law.
$150M+
REPORTED RECOVERIES
50+
YEARS OF COMBINED EXPERIENCE
230+
COMBINED JURY TRIALS
1995
BOTH ADMITTED TO THE FLORIDA BAR
WHO REVIEWS THE CLAIM
Mark Miller and Rick Jacobs bring backgrounds in prosecution, insurance defense, civil litigation, negotiation, and jury trials.
PARTNER
Mark Miller has been a member of The Florida Bar since 1995. He served as an Assistant State Attorney, worked in insurance defense, and reports more than 70 jury trials.
READ MARK J. MILLER’S BIO → PARTNER
Rick Jacobs has been a member of The Florida Bar since 1995. He served as an Assistant State Attorney in Miami-Dade County and reports more than 160 jury trials.
READ RICK S. JACOBS’S BIO →FORT LAUDERDALE SERVICE. BROWARD-BASED FIRM.
Miller & Jacobs’ main office is at 1600 S Federal Highway, Suite 1101, in Pompano Beach. The firm serves injured people throughout Fort Lauderdale and Broward County.
An incident on I-95, Federal Highway, Sunrise Boulevard, Las Olas Boulevard, A1A, the New River, the Intracoastal, or inside a property may point to different agencies, records, witnesses, insurance, and court questions.
MILLER & JACOBS — POMPANO BEACH HEADQUARTERS
1600 S Federal Highway, Suite 1101, Pompano Beach, FL 33062
YOUR NEXT STEP CAN BE SIMPLE
Tell Miller & Jacobs what happened, what has changed, and what you have heard from the insurers. You do not need every record before asking for help.
BEFORE YOU DECIDE
These answers are general information. The facts, policy language, evidence, and claim type can change the answer.
No. Describe what happened and who was present. Reports, video, witnesses, and vehicle or property records may clarify responsibility. More than one party may be involved.
The consultation is free and confidential. There is no attorney fee unless compensation is recovered for you. The written fee agreement explains the arrangement before representation begins.
Keep the messages, company name, claim number, and caller’s name. Give required information truthfully, but do not guess or sign a release you do not understand.
In many covered auto claims, PIP pays qualifying benefits without first deciding fault. It may address part of medical expenses and lost income, subject to the 14-day rule and other limits. Motorcycle claims differ.
Do not assume that ends every option. Covered PIP uses a different analysis. In a negligence claim, Florida law may reduce damages by a person’s share of fault and may bar recovery above 50%, subject to the law and claim type.
Venue depends on the incident, the parties, the claim type, and other rules. Many Broward civil matters proceed in Broward County and the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, but the facts determine the court.
There is no standard timeline. Medical recovery, disputed responsibility, insurance, the number of parties, and a lawsuit can affect the duration. The useful early answer is what must happen next, not a guessed completion date.
