The truck may leave the scene. Your injury stays with you.
Miller & Jacobs helps people injured in Hollywood crashes involving tractor-trailers, box trucks, and delivery vehicles. We investigate the driver and businesses involved, seek records that may be lost, and handle the claim while you receive care. Call our Pompano Beach office to discuss the next decision.
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Florida Bar since 1995
Both Mark J. Miller and Rick S. Jacobs.
Serving Hollywood
From our Pompano Beach office.
Once we represent you, we can manage the trucking claim, review insurer requests, and identify evidence that needs protection. Bring the letter, call, or bill that needs attention first.
Keep the caller’s name, insurer, and requested deadline. We can explain a statement request and handle communications with the trucking carrier. Your own policy may still require notice and cooperation. Avoid filling gaps with guesses.
An offer may settle much more than today’s bills. We can review what it closes, the losses supported so far, and future care that remains uncertain. Bring any release already signed as well.
Calling for a family member? Explain the injury and who can currently speak for them. We can discuss the authority needed for representation without asking you to assemble every record first.
Already back at home? Keep follow-up care and new symptoms in the record. Being discharged does not mean you can return to your usual work or daily tasks.
The carrier, vehicle owner, loader, or repair business may need investigation when their role contributed to the crash. We establish each relationship and the evidence of fault before deciding whom a claim should name.
A name painted on a trailer may differ from the company operating the cab. Safely taken photographs of both vehicles, plates, and a visible DOT number can help trace the operation.
A turn across your lane, a rear-end impact, or a sudden merge needs a careful sequence of events. Witnesses, damage, and available footage can test the accounts given afterward.
Dispatch instructions, the driver’s work arrangement, and applicable safety records may connect the trip to company decisions. A branded vehicle alone does not prove the legal relationship.
A brake issue, loose cargo, or trailer problem may point toward maintenance or loading work. We assess what failed and whether that failure helped cause the injury.
When businesses dispute their roles, the investigation should resolve those gaps. We review the relevant policies and direct claims to the appropriate parties rather than treating the first denial as the final answer.
Vehicle condition, company records, and video may need prompt preservation. We identify their holders, request protection, and assess whether an inspection is needed. Get medical care first; you do not have to chase the truck yourself.
We seek relevant logs, dispatch messages, and recordings. Knowing which camera or data system the truck used matters more than assuming every truck has the same equipment.
A truck, trailer, or damaged part may need examination before alteration. Tell us where your vehicle is stored and what repair or disposal dates you were given.
Delivery receipts, witnesses, and business cameras may fill gaps between the highway and the destination. A request to preserve material and a legal right to obtain it are separate issues.
An electronic logging device records information for hours-of-service compliance. FMCSA does not require it to capture speed or braking. Cameras and vehicle systems may hold other data, if installed.
Motor carriers subject to the federal requirement must retain ELD duty records and supporting documents for six months. That does not establish how long nearby security video or other electronic data will remain available.
“How do I keep my life moving when getting through a normal day still hurts?”
A delivery shift, a school pickup, or standing long enough to make dinner can become difficult. Tell us what has changed, including the help you now need at home.
Those details help explain the injury alongside treatment records. You can talk through them before you know what a claim may be worth.
A supported claim may include medical care, rehabilitation, lost earnings, reduced future earning ability, and pain or limits on daily life. Responsibility, coverage, and the applicable law affect what may be recovered.
Keep care plans and bills alongside income records. A future recovery does not replace this week’s pay, so tell us about urgent payment or benefit questions too.
Save the schedule, pay stubs, leave used, and your doctor’s work limits. If you returned on shorter shifts, record the dates and hours. A missing overtime shift may need different proof from regular wages.
Keep job messages, invoices, expenses, and records of replacement help. Lost sales and lost earnings are different amounts. The file should show what work you could not perform and what income you actually lost.
When an injury may affect work or independence long term, medical findings should support the expected needs. Appropriate experts can help assess future care, equipment, or earning limits when the facts call for them.
An insurer’s request, a repair deadline, or the work you cannot do. Call to discuss the facts and the records that may need protection.
The road, direction, and entrance can point toward different evidence. Describe the location as precisely as you can; a highway exit and a hotel loading driveway call for different follow-up.
Record the direction, nearest exit or intersection, and approximate time. Note whether the truck was changing lanes, turning, or entering traffic. Confirm which agency responded before requesting a report.
For a truck entering a shop, hotel, or service area near Federal Highway or Hollywood Beach, identify the driveway and turn direction. Keep receipts and witness details. The street-facing camera may show a different view from the loading area.
Mark J. Miller and Rick S. Jacobs have each been members of The Florida Bar since 1995. Their biographies describe their prosecution and courtroom backgrounds.
Ask who would handle your claim, how to share new records, and how updates would reach you. The first conversation should help you understand the working relationship.
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Mark’s background includes work as an Assistant State Attorney and in insurance defense. His biography describes that experience and his work in injury litigation.
Read Mark J. Miller’s biography → Partner
Rick served as an Assistant State Attorney in Miami-Dade County. Read his biography for his background and reported courtroom experience.
Read Rick S. Jacobs’s biography →A claim can involve a delivery company, a distant carrier, or evidence held by a local business. These answers explain where the review begins.
Have the filing deadline checked. Many Florida negligence lawsuits have a two-year filing period. Accrual, exceptions, and different claims can change the analysis. Waiting for an insurer’s answer does not by itself extend the deadline.
Keep safely taken photographs of both names, plates, a visible DOT number, and the report number. Those details help identify the carrier, equipment owners, and other businesses. The names alone do not establish who is legally responsible.
Bring the notice, storage charge, estimate, and vehicle location to the consultation promptly. We can assess an inspection and discuss how to protect evidence while addressing costs. A preservation concern is not a reason to ignore the tow yard.
Yes, a review can begin by phone after you return home. Keep the report, travel details, scene photographs, and follow-up records. Evidence may remain in Florida while your care continues elsewhere; the parties and your circumstances affect the legal review.
It can. Employment status and who caused the crash may make workers’ compensation and a third-party claim relevant. Tell us about employer notices and benefits already received. The claims can affect each other, including repayment rights.
No. A limit is a coverage ceiling, not an offer or a case valuation. The evidence of responsibility, covered losses, exclusions, and other claims matter. We need the relevant policies and facts before assessing potential recovery.
Explain what you dispute and identify any witness, footage, or damage that may support another sequence. A report does not automatically decide civil fault. In negligence actions covered by Florida’s rule, fault can reduce recovery and being more than 50 percent at fault bars damages.
If you can safely identify the business, give its name and the crash time to your attorney. A prompt request may help preserve relevant footage. Whether the business must provide it and what legal steps are available require separate review.
