Injured on a Construction or Work Site?
A serious jobsite injury can turn a normal workday into questions about the next paycheck, the next doctor visit, and whether your family can keep up while you heal. Miller & Jacobs helps injured workers and families understand what may pay the bills now, what may protect future income, and how to build a claim around the life the injury has changed.
Free and confidential consultation. No attorney fee unless compensation is recovered for you.
The Questions That Usually Come First
Start with the pressure you are feeling at home and at work.
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How will I pay rent, groceries, and utilities if I cannot work?
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Who pays for surgery, therapy, medication, and follow-up care?
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Can I lose my job for reporting what happened?
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What if I cannot return to the same trade or earn the same income?
Those are the right questions. The legal strategy should be built around the answers.
Pompano Beach
Firm Headquarters
Local access on South Federal Highway.
50+ Years
Combined Experience
Representing injured people and handling litigation.
230+
Combined Jury Trials
Courtroom experience when a case cannot be resolved fairly.
Former Prosecutors
Evidence-Focused Background
Experience testing competing accounts against the record.
Stability Comes First
The immediate problem is often cash flow and medical access. Workers’ compensation may help with authorized treatment and part of lost wages. A separate injury claim may also be available in some cases and may address losses workers’ compensation does not. The right approach begins with what your household needs now and what the injury may cost over time.
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A serious injury may require surgery, therapy, medication, specialist care, transportation, home help, and future treatment. The claim should account for the full medical path, not only the first bill.
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Missing work can affect overtime, bonuses, union benefits, health coverage, retirement contributions, and advancement. Pay records and work history help show the real pressure.
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Medical restrictions, the physical demands of the trade, accommodations, retraining, and reduced earning ability should shape a safe and realistic return-to-work plan.
Miller & Jacobs can review the immediate pressure and the long-term picture during a
free, confidential consultation.Job Security
Florida law says an employer may not discharge, threaten, intimidate, or coerce an employee because the employee made or tried to make a valid workers’ compensation claim. That protection matters, but real job disputes can still involve work restrictions, missed time, schedule changes, discipline, layoffs, or claims that the employee can return before the employee feels ready.
Do not resign, agree to a new job status, or sign a release you do not understand simply because you feel cornered. Save the communications and get advice about the specific facts.
Read Florida Statute 440.205 on coercion of employees →Keep a Copy
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Texts, emails, and messages about the injury or claim
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Work schedules before and after the incident
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Medical restrictions and return-to-work notes
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Discipline, suspension, layoff, or termination notices
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Pay stubs, overtime history, and benefit information
How the Bills May Be Paid
The same injury can sometimes create two different financial paths. They have different rules, benefits, and deadlines, and they should be coordinated rather than treated as interchangeable.
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Workers’ Compensation
For a covered employee, workers’ compensation may provide authorized care and disability benefits when the injury prevents work or reduces earnings. The amount and duration depend on medical restrictions, work status, wages, and other statutory rules.
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Authorized medical treatment
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Partial wage-replacement benefits
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Benefits tied to impairment or permanent disability in qualifying cases
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Possible reemployment or vocational assistance
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Separate Injury Claim
When a third party caused the injury, Florida law may allow a worker to receive compensation benefits while also pursuing that party. A separate claim may address losses the workers’ compensation system does not fully cover.
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Full past and future lost earning ability
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Pain, suffering, and loss of normal life
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Future care and household support
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Family and long-term functional impact
Workers’ compensation carriers may have reimbursement or lien rights if money is recovered from a third party. The two paths should be evaluated together.
Read Florida Statute 440.39 →
The Human Part of Recovery
A construction-site injury can affect much more than one shift or one hospital visit. It can change how you carry your child, sleep through the night, climb stairs, drive to therapy, or think about returning to the trade that helped support your family.
The legal claim should account for the full human story, not only the first emergency-room bill or the first week off work.
Get the Help You Deserve →Recovery is not only getting out of the hospital. It is getting back to a life that still feels like yours.
Keeping housing, utilities, groceries, and insurance paid while income is reduced
Getting to appointments and handling childcare when driving or lifting is difficult
Facing the possibility that your body can no longer perform the same trade
Protecting overtime, retirement, benefits, and future earning growth
Planning for future surgery, therapy, chronic pain, or permanent restrictions
What to Do Now
You cannot change what happened at the site. You can still protect your health, your records, and the decisions you make next.
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Tell the provider how the injury affects sleep, movement, lifting, driving, concentration, and work. Do not minimize symptoms because you are worried about the job.
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An employee generally must notify the employer within 30 days, subject to exceptions. Keep the report, the names of the people told, and a short account of the task, equipment, and witnesses.
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Keep every restriction note. Do not perform restricted tasks simply because a supervisor pressures you or because you fear losing hours.
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Keep pay stubs, overtime history, mileage, prescriptions, childcare, and household-help expenses tied to the injury.
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Use care with resignations, broad authorizations, releases, settlements, or statements you do not understand. Ask questions before signing.
What Happened at the Site?
Construction accident cases are built from the details of the task, the equipment, the condition, and the people who were present. These are common starting points, not automatic conclusions about fault.
Falls and elevation work
Relevant records may include fall-protection plans, inspections, training, photographs, and the work assignment.
Loads and falling objects
Lift plans, spotter assignments, equipment records, delivery timing, video, and witnesses may explain the event.
Equipment and product issues
Rental records, maintenance, repairs, instructions, prior complaints, and equipment condition may become important.
Electrical and burn events
Hot-work permits, utility markings, electrical plans, chemical information, and incident reports may matter.
Collapse and excavation
Inspections, soil information, protective-system plans, engineering records, permits, and photographs may help reconstruct the event.
Work-zone and vehicle crashes
Traffic-control plans, driver logs, video, signage, lighting, and routing may be relevant.
Why Miller & Jacobs
Miller & Jacobs looks beyond the first hospital bill and a short period of missed work. The firm considers changes to your trade, overtime, benefits, mobility, family responsibilities, and long-term earning ability.
The first conversation starts with what the injury changed at home and at work, not with a claim number.
Both partners are former prosecutors. Mark Miller also worked in insurance defense.
The firm reports more than 230 combined jury trials and prepares each claim for the path it may take.
The firm is headquartered on South Federal Highway, with a local number and local access.
$150M+
Reported recoveries
50+
Years combined
230+
Combined jury trials
Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every matter depends on its facts, evidence, available coverage, injuries, and law.
What Happens After You Call
Miller & Jacobs can begin with the facts you know, then build outward into benefits, records, insurance, medical needs, and the financial future.
Step One
Understand the injury, treatment, missed work, employer communication, and the family’s immediate questions.
Step Two
Review notice, medical care, wage loss, job concerns, and any step that should not wait.
Step Three
Gather reports, contracts, video, equipment records, insurance, medical restrictions, wage history, and future needs.
Step Four
Present the evidence, respond to defenses, and prepare for court when litigation becomes necessary.
Partner · Former Prosecutor
Mark Miller has been a member of The Florida Bar since 1995. His background includes criminal prosecution, insurance defense, and more than 70 reported jury trials.
Read Mark Miller’s Bio →
Partner · Former Prosecutor
Rick Jacobs has been a member of The Florida Bar since 1995. His background includes criminal prosecution and more than 160 reported jury trials.
Read Rick Jacobs’s Bio →The Attorneys Behind the Firm
A construction injury case can involve medical evidence, wages, restrictions, site records, insurance, and disputed facts.
The goal is to make the full cost of the injury clear, supported, and difficult to dismiss.
Start With What Is Keeping You Up
Tell Miller & Jacobs what happened, what the doctors have said, and what your family is facing. You do not need every document or every answer before calling.
Pompano Beach and Broward County
Construction and renovation work in Pompano Beach can take place in residential towers, hotels, warehouses, road corridors, marinas, retail centers, and occupied properties where workers, delivery drivers, residents, and visitors share limited space.
Miller & Jacobs is headquartered at 1600 S. Federal Highway, Suite 1101. The firm represents injured people in Pompano Beach and throughout Broward County.
Pompano Beach Office
Pompano Beach, Florida 33062
Questions Injured Workers Often Ask First
These answers are general information. Employment status, medical restrictions, insurance coverage, the cause of the incident, and the applicable deadlines can change the analysis.
Workers’ compensation disability benefits may replace part of lost wages when an authorized provider takes a covered employee out of work or limits earnings. The amount depends on medical status and wages. Keep every work note and pay record.
Florida law prohibits firing, threats, intimidation, or coercion because of a valid claim or attempt to claim benefits. Save communications and seek advice about the specific facts. Read the statute →
Cash pay or a 1099 does not automatically eliminate every option. The actual work relationship, control, payment, tools, contracts, and insurance may matter.
The claim should examine restrictions, retraining, wage difference, future earning capacity, and permanent limitations. The full work history matters because the available paths address these losses differently.
Possibly. Florida law allows a covered worker to accept compensation benefits while pursuing a negligent third party in qualifying circumstances. Reimbursement or lien rights mean the paths should be coordinated.
An employee generally must notify the employer within 30 days, subject to exceptions. Florida generally provides two years for negligence and wrongful-death actions, but the correct deadline can change. Notice statute → Limitations statute →
The consultation is free and confidential. There is no attorney fee unless compensation is recovered for you. The written agreement explains the arrangement before representation begins.
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