personal injury

Stephen J. Stanley, Attorney at law

412 E Madison St., Ste 1100, Tampa, FL 33602, 813-226-2727

LITIGATION, REAL ESTATE, CRIMINAL DEFENSE, PERSONAL INJURY, FAMILY LAW, APPEALS

CAR ACCIDENTS

If you or a loved one were involved in a serious car accident, please contact Tampa Car Accident Attorney Stephen J. Stanley, for a free consultation. Car accidents entail costly vehicle repairs, medical treatment, and even long-term lingering injuries. One would think that dealing with a car accident was a simple matter, but often, it becomes complicated and exhausting.

PERSONAL INJURY

If you or a loved one have been injured in an accident, you may be entitled to compensation. Such accidents can include car accidents, bicycle accidents, boating accidents, slip-and-fall accidents, trip-&-fall accidents, products liability accidents, medical malpractice accidents, dog bites, negligent security, sexual abuse, and many others.

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

If you or a loved one have been injured in an accident, you may be entitled to compensation. Such accidents can include car accidents, bicycle accidents, boating accidents, slip-and-fall accidents, trip-&-fall accidents, products liability accidents, medical malpractice accidents, dog bites, negligent security, sexual abuse, and many others.

inured in an accident?

If you or a loved one have been injured in an accident, you may be entitled to compensation. Such accidents can include car accidents, slip and fall accidents, trip & fall accidents, products liability accidents, medical malpractice accidents, and others such as:

Alcohol-Related Accident
Bicycle Accident
Boat Accident
Construction Accident
Cruise Ship Accident
Dog Bite
Falling Merchandise Accident
Motorcycle Accident
Negligent Security
Pedestrian Accident
Sexual Abuse
Sexual Assault
Truck Accident

In order to receive compensation for an accident, the claimant—or plaintiff—must demonstrate that the person that caused the act was negligent. From the objective standpoint of the law, negligence is measured using “the reasonable person standard.” Which is to say that the law looks at a person’s behaviors and actions and compares them to the behaviors and actions of a reasonable person. Negligence can be a complicated and ambiguous concept, and it can encompass a great many actions in which a person acted unreasonably or without due care. Jurors serving on civil cases in Florida are asked to abide by the legal definition of negligence provided in Jury Instruction 401.4 which states the following:

Negligence is the failure to use reasonable care, which is the care that a reasonably careful person would use under like circumstances. Negligence is doing something that a reasonably careful person would not do under like circumstances or failing to do something that a reasonably careful person would do under like circumstances.

Florida Standard Jury Instructions – Civil: Fla. Std. Jury Instr. (Civ.) 401.4.