Truck Accident Attorneys in Orlando, FL

For truck accidents on or after March 24, 2023, Florida gives you two years from the date of the crash to file a personal injury lawsuit. That window was cut from four years under prior law, so older guidance you find online is often out of date. Wrongful death claims carry their own two-year deadline. Evidence in trucking cases can disappear fast, which is why acting well before the deadline matters.

Florida PIP pays up to $10,000 only if a medical doctor certifies that you suffered an emergency medical condition. Without that finding, your benefits are capped at $2,500. The catch is timing: you have to be seen and evaluated within 14 days of the crash, and the certification has to come from an M.D., not a chiropractor or massage therapist alone. Most common crash injuries qualify, but if you wait past the 14-day window you can lose access to the full benefit.

Truck cases often involve more than one responsible party. Depending on the facts, that can include the driver, the trucking company that hired or supervised them, the company that owned or maintained the truck, a cargo loader, or a parts manufacturer in a brake or tire failure. Identifying every responsible party matters, because commercial policies and corporate defendants are usually where meaningful compensation comes from.

Commercial trucks generate evidence passenger cars do not. We look for the electronic logging device and the engine control module (the truck's black box), the driver's hours-of-service logs, the driver qualification file, maintenance and inspection records, and any dashcam footage. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration rules govern much of this. Because carriers can cycle or overwrite these records, an evidence-preservation letter sent early is often decisive.

Yes. In Florida you can pursue the driver for their own negligence and the trucking company when the driver was working in the course of their employment. The company can also be directly liable for negligent hiring, training, supervision, or maintenance. Naming the company matters because its commercial coverage is typically far larger than an individual driver's policy.

Driver error leads the list, including speeding, fatigue, and distraction, and it is often compounded by improper loading, tire blowouts, and mechanical failure. Large trucks also need far more distance to stop, so following too closely or sudden lane changes turn into serious wrecks quickly.

The Turnpike through Kissimmee and Osceola County is one of the worst stretches. A six-lane highway where traffic moves around 80 miles per hour chokes down to two lanes, and drivers who are not expecting it pile up. Truck crashes there tend to be catastrophic. The Four Corners area and the roads around The Loop also generate a high share of the crashes we see each year.

Yes. Osceola County sits in the 9th Judicial Circuit along with Orange County, and we have tried many cases in the Kissimmee courthouse. It tends to be less congested than the Orange County courthouse, which can make it easier to move a case toward resolution.

One of the largest came in 2021, when a Florida jury returned a verdict of roughly $1 billion in a wrongful death case after finding a trucking company had failed to properly screen its driver and ignored safety standards. Verdicts that size are rare and depend entirely on the facts, but they show what is at stake when a carrier puts an unsafe driver on the road.

Depending on your case, recovery can include past and future medical care, lost wages and lost earning capacity, the cost of long-term or in-home care for serious injuries, and pain, suffering, and loss of quality of life. Where a company acted with gross negligence, such as knowingly putting an unsafe truck or driver on the road, punitive damages may also be available.