My name is Johnny Pineyro of the Pineyro Law Firm.  I’m a lawyer and a pilot, and today, unfortunately, we’re heading off to see a new client who sustained a traumatic brain injury.

Traumatic brain injuries as result of an accident vary from mild to moderate to severe.  These cases involve specialized, technical knowledge about brain injuries.  Our law firm employs top experts in understanding and explaining the extent to which individuals sustain these types of injuries.

A traumatic brain injury requires short and long term medical treatment.  It is not unusual that years after the case is resolved, clients continue to treat and get cognitive therapy.  This is important to deal with short term memory loss, for example, or loss of senses.  Oftentimes, seizures result from traumatic brain injuries.  It’s important that we get the right doctors to treat, evaluate, and provide the cognitive therapy that is necessary when you sustain any type of traumatic brain injury.

If you’ve sustained any sort of a head injury resulting in a blackout, please give us a call at 877-­566-1020 or visit us online at www.JusticeDeserved.com.

My name is Johnny Pineyro of the Pineyro Law Firm.  And today we’re going to talk a little bit about what we do once we accept a client at our office.

The first step for us to do is to find out who is responsible and make sure that they are placed on notice.  And what that means is we send letters out by certified mail to make sure that the individuals or entities responsible for the accident become aware that they are a target.  Once they are aware, we can begin, hopefully, meaningful dialogue between our office, our clients, the insurance companies, or directly with the at-fault parties.

There’s a misconception in these cases that lawyers will just file a law suit without giving an opportunity to get the case resolved outside of court.  And, although, some law firms do take that approach, at our firm we attempt to amicably resolve the matter-disagreement as quickly as we can without litigation.  Litigation, which we’ll discuss later, takes a lot of time and money.  A lot of clients by the end of litigation are far worse off than they would have been prior to any litigation being commenced.   So, we try to do what we can to resolve all disputes without litigation.

This pre-litigation stage requires us to send out documents and begin dialogue with the insurance companies or with the individuals or entities that caused the accident in the first place.  This process, typically, can last up to a year.  However, some cases do resolve sooner than that.  If the injuries are clear and the cause of the accident is clear, it’s not unusual for cases to resolve in less than 30 days.

Once we feel that the pre-litigation phase will not resolve the case, either because the other side is denying responsibility or the injuries exceed what the coverage is and they still don’t want to pay the amount of money they have, we consult with our clients and get from them permission to file a law suit.  That beings the litigation phase of these cases.

Whether it’s an automobile accident, a slip-and-fall injury, or some product defect that caused the injuries, the process is generally the same.  There are, also, very important statutes of limitations that apply to these cases.  We have to make sure that if we’re not going to get these cases resolved through the pre-litigation phase, that we do file a law suit to preserve our clients’ rights.  And statues of limitations can vary from case to case.  When you call the Pineyro Law Firm, one of the things you want to make sure you’re aware of is how much time the lawyer has to file the law suit.

My name is Johnny Pineyro, I’m a lawyer and a pilot.  Today we’re going to be meeting a new client.  This client slipped and fell at a grocery store in town.  These cases involving slip-and-falls in Florida are very unique cases.  They are quite interesting in that, oftentimes, the store where it occurred is quick to get everything swept up, so to speak.  In these types of cases, we often counsel our clients, if they’ve got a camera, a cell phone, to use it to document the area by taking photographs and preserving the evidence.  Sometimes it’s difficult to get any video that may exist from the store, department store, grocery store, and we often have to litigate or go to court about this kind of thing.

Any statements that are given typically are also protected as work product by the department stores. They rarely like to disclose that kind of stuff to us.  So, we tell our clients to be as detailed as possible and to contact our office as soon as possible, so that we can begin our own investigation as to what occurred.  Slip-and-fall cases are unique cases, and, oftentimes, our clients give statements to the grocery store or department store where they slipped and fell.  These statements, unbeknownst to our clients, are, typically, not shared with our clients or their attorneys.  They are considered work product.  These slip-and-fall cases often turn on how quickly the evidence can be preserved.

It’s important to make sure the client continues to treat in these cases, and we help in that regard by getting all of our clients to healthcare providers near them, where they can continue their treatment.  Oftentimes, the healthcare providers will not charge unless and until there’s a recovery at the end of the case.  This is helpful, especially in this economy, when people don’t have health insurance or have limited means to getting to a doctor and paying for that care and treatment.

If you have sustained an injury in a slip-and-fall context, please give us a call at 877-566-1020 or visit us online at www.JusticeDeserved.com.

Today we’re going to visit a theoretical client who sustained injuries during an automobile accident in Florida.  We get a lot of cases involving automobile accidents and people wonder:  What can they do?  Why would they hire an attorney?  And how soon can they get compensation?   The answers to those questions vary depending on the type of case it is.  We have seen cases resolved in several days and others take years to get a resolution.  It really depends on the injuries and who caused the accident.  The first thing we do as a law firm is find out who was involved.  Secondly, we look at the damages; how you’re injured.  That’s very important, and it’s important for us to understand if there are any long term injuries, especially any permanent injuries.  The more permanent the injuries are, the more compensation, typically, one finds.  And lastly, the third thing we look at is collecting.  We want to make sure that whoever is responsible has the money for us to collect on behalf of our clients.

Every case has three elements to it.  The first is liability, who caused the accident.   The second are the damages sustained during the accident.  And finally, the third is collecting those damages.   Our law firm works very hard to find out who was responsible.  There may be more than one entity or person responsible.  If there’s more than one responsible party, we try to go after each of them to the fullest extent of the law to get compensation for our clients.

It’s important regardless of the type of injury you sustained or how it was caused that you contact a lawyer.  You can reach our firm at www.JusticeDeserved.com or by phone at 877-566-1020.

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Much like the seasons, the law is a dynamic and changing process. Change is inevitable in our lives. What worked with a prior attorney at a prior time may no longer work today. We must stay on pace with the ever-changing nature of the law in order to ensure you, as a client, will get the most recovery possible for your injuries. Our legislature often votes change into laws that used to be favorable and now are not. Understanding these changes is important. Being involved early on to help effect change that will protect consumer rights is even more important.

Johnny Pineyro of the Pineyro & Cressman law firm understands how critical it is to help our legislature make the right choices. Every year, Mr. Pineyro travels to Tallahassee and volunteers locally to lobby for your rights. In addition, his position as an Eagle Member of the Florida Justice Association, allows him access to key figures that will help protect you. His financial contributions to the organization ensure your consumer rights will be protected year after year.

Please call us if you have suffered injuries that have changed your life. When a new season of your life begins, the Pineyro & Cressman law firm will be there with you every step of the way.