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Adrenaline often masks injuries right after a crash. Drivers walking away from a collision may feel fine, only for severe pain to develop days, weeks, or months later. However,

Florida law gives you 14 days from the crash to seek initial care, or your PIP benefits can be denied outright. Missing this window allows your insurer to deny Personal Injury Protection (PIP) benefits entirely, regardless of when symptoms actually appeared.

Viñas & DeLuca represents injured individuals and families from our South Dadeland Boulevard office across vehicle collisions, premises liability, medical negligence, defective products, and institutional abuse cases.

Bring your questions to a personal injury attorney in Miami by calling (305) 372-3650 or contact us online.

Injury & Wrongful Death Services Handled in Miami

Personal injury claims in Miami fall into distinct categories, each with its own evidence, legal rules, and insurance tactics.

As such, we represent clients in a broad swath of case types, including but not necessarily limited to:

Motor vehicle collisions. We can recover black box data, traffic footage, and driver logs for crashes involving cars, motorcycles, rideshare vehicles, commercial trucks, and buses.
Pedestrian and cyclist injuries. We can analyze crosswalk positions, signal timing, and visibility factors to counter defense attempts to blame victims.

Premises and property claims. We can obtain maintenance logs, surveillance footage, and complaint histories to prove property owners knew about dangerous hazards.
Medical negligence claims. We can guide you through Florida's mandatory pre-suit process and partner with medical experts to establish substandard care.
Defective products. We hold manufacturers, distributors, and retailers accountable when product failures cause harm, reaching beyond simple driver liability.
Institutional abuse and neglect. We can subpoena personnel files, staffing records, and prior complaints to hold negligent institutions responsible.

Wrongful death claims apply across all six areas, subject to strict statutory rules governing eligible survivors and recoverable damages. Because single events often involve multiple liable parties, we endeavor to investigate every angle and uncover all available insurance policies in your case.

Cases We Handle

How Comparative Fault Affects Your Claim

Florida follows a modified comparative fault standard that directly controls your financial recovery. Under this law, your compensation is reduced by your percentage of responsibility. Unless the case involves medical negligence or malpractice, if your share of fault passes 50%, you are barred from recovering any money in. While a simple two-car crash might seem straightforward, multi-vehicle collisions make fault distribution far more complex. A jury can spread liability across every driver involved, and fault can even be assigned to non-parties absent from the lawsuit, such as a hit-and-run driver or a government agency responsible for faulty traffic signals.

Insurance adjusters use this rule aggressively. Every single percentage point an insurer shifts onto you reduces their payout, and pushing your fault to 51% eliminates their financial responsibility entirely. Defense teams routinely rely on selective reconstructions to argue that an injured victim was primarily to blame.

We counteract these defense tactics by anchoring your claim in hard physical evidence. Our team acts immediately to secure scene measurements, vehicle data, signal timing records, and video footage before evidence disappears. By working with independent accident reconstruction experts, we dismantle unfair fault arguments, hold all responsible parties accountable, and protect your right to full financial recovery.

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When the At-Fault Driver Has No Bodily Injury Coverage

Florida law does not require drivers to carry bodily injury liability coverage. Standard vehicle registration demands personal injury protection and property damage liability, nothing more. A driver can be fully compliant under state law while carrying zero coverage to pay for injuries caused to someone else, creating a devastating financial gap after a serious crash.

Uninsured and underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) coverage on your own auto policy bridges this gap. Whether UM coverage applies, how many vehicles it covers, and whether policy limits can stack depend on the language in your declarations page and any signed selection forms. Identifying secondary sources of recovery, such as an employer's commercial policy or a vehicle owner separate from the driver, often matters far more than the driver's personal policy limits.

Following an accident, we can step in to uncover possible sources of financial compensation. Our team conducts exhaustive coverage investigations, auditing declarations pages, and historical waiver forms to fight for maximum UM/UIM benefits. We can also track down third-party liability coverage, including employer insurance and umbrella policies.

An injury claim is a record-building exercise long before it becomes an argument. Get that record started with a personal injury attorney in Miami by calling (305) 372-3650 or contact us online.