South Florida Personal Injury Lawyer Plays Waiting Game with Pain and Suffering; Many Personal Injury Claims Take Time to Resolve

A Fort Lauderdale personal injury attorney says individuals who are injured in accidents such as slip and falls or vehicle accidents are entitled to compensation because they were injured by the negligence of another person or company.

Nearly all automobile accidents on the roadways today are caused by distracted drivers who for one reason or another are not paying attention to what the cars around them are doing.  Just recently, cell phone usage and text messaging while driving has become the number one distraction.  This overtakes eating while driving.  Other things that could cause a driver to be distracted while driving that could possibly cause injury accidents are speaking with passengers, adjusting the radio or looking for CDs or simply thinking about other things.

When a person is injured in an automobile accident or another type of accident they are entitled to just compensation for their medical bills, lost wages, time and travel expenses in addition to ‘pain and suffering’.

The concept of ‘pain and suffering’ can be hard for many people to grasp because it is an abstract concept. Under the law, negligent drivers are responsible for “returning the injured person to the place and condition they found them in.” Of course there is no magic wand to do this, no time traveling machine, there has to be a solution in which things are put back as close to normal as possible and the negligent party is held accountable.

Unfortunately the reality of an automobile accident or any other type of accident is that ‘pain and suffering’ is usually only the tip of the iceberg.  Because a South Florida personal injury lawyer wants their client to be as healthy as they could be before settlements issues are discussed and payments are agreed upon, personal injury cases may take several years to finally resolve and therefore added stress from unpaid medical bills or other bills that go unpaid because of lost wages can be frustrating and even somewhat dangerous for a person who might not be able to pay their mortgage payments in a timely fashion.