Shiner Law Group – A Boca Raton Personal Injury Law Firm

Seeking Compensation for Victims & Holding Those Who Cause Injury Accountable

When you suffer a significant injury or lose a loved one, you will face significant hardships that might include intense pain and suffering, lost income, staggering medical bills, and changes to your quality of life. The emotional impact of your injury or loss might be ever more devastating if it is caused by the negligent or intentional actions of an individual, public entity, or corporation. Our Boca Raton personal injury attorneys are committed to advocating for the rights of injury victims and seeking the maximum compensation for victims, so they can fully recover and reclaim their lives. The Shiner Law Group also is committed to holding those who injure others through their careless or wrongful conduct financially accountable for the harm they cause to discourage such conduct in the future.

Our Boca Raton personal injury lawyers and support staff are dedicated to providing the guidance and representation you need to pursue the fullest compensation. Whether your case is small or large, we provide small firm client-oriented services while pursuing big firm results. Since the Shiner Law Group was founded over 15 years ago, we have received a significant number of awards and honors that include:

• “Superb 10.0” rating by AVVO which rates every attorney in the U.S.
• Inclusion among “Best Law Firms” by U.S. News & World Report
• “Top 100 Trial Lawyers” by the National Trial Lawyers
• Listed in “The Best Lawyers in America®
• “Superb Top Attorney Car Accident” designation from AVVO
• Highest “Preeminent AV” rating based on peer review by Martindale-Hubbell
• 4.9 out of 5.0 Rating on Google based on Client Reviews (verified 12/20/16)
• Perfect 5 out of 5 rating from clients at AVVO (verified 12/20/16)
• 4.8 out of 5.0 rating on Facebook based on client reviews (verified 12/20/16)
• Dozens of 5-star reviews on legal portals across the Internet

While this sampling is far from a comprehensive list of the prestigious awards and accolades bestowed on Shiner Law Group, these honors testify to the reputation our law firm has achieved among judges, insurance carriers, the insurance defense bar, peers, and former clients. Our Boca Raton personal injury attorneys have handled hundreds upon hundreds of personal injury and wrongful death claims obtaining tens of millions of dollars for our clients. We rely on a thorough investigation of the facts, consultation with leading experts in their field of expertise, effective negotiation, tenacious advocacy, and up to the minute knowledge of changes in the law.

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Voted Best Boca Raton Personal Accident and Injury Law Firm

Our Palm Beach County personal injury lawyers are committed to the principle that the practice of law should be a customer service oriented endeavor. When you are struggling with decreased household income and spiraling medical bills, we know your physical challenges can be magnified by the stress of a complex legal process. At the Shiner Law Group, we are committed to demystifying the legal process and keeping our clients informed through the duration of their case from our initial investigation to providing funds for a settlement or verdict. We understand that the lack of communication is the most prominent complaint about attorneys, so we have a law firm policy of trying to respond to all calls and emails the same or next business day. We also provide our clients with updates when significant developments occur and/or at reasonable intervals during the process.

How the Experienced Accident Injury Lawyers at the Shiner Law Group Can Help

The lawyers at the Shiner Law Group have experience representing individuals injured by the intentional and negligent conduct of other individuals, corporations, and government entities. While some injury victims attempt to handle their own legal matters when pursuing a claim for damages, this strategy is dangerous because insurance companies have many advantages. The insurance carrier has insurance defense attorneys, claims adjusters, accident reconstruction experts, extensive litigation experience, and a financial war chest that is nearly unlimited. Our Palm Beach County personal injury lawyers can provide a significant number of benefits to balance the scales of justice for injured persons taking on large commercial and public entities, such as:

Knowledge of Traps for the Unwary: When an injury victim navigates the legal and insurance claims process, there are many traps for the unwary. If a plaintiff fails to respond in a timely fashion to a discovery request, the result can be sanctions that result in liability for the other side’s attorney fees and/or court rulings damaging the claim. When you fail to comply with critical deadlines, such as those established by the Florida Tort Claims Act (FTCA) or the statute of limitations, your claim can be severely damaged. Failure to give notice under the FTCA when suing a public entity will result in the plaintiff being barred from suing the government. If an uninsured driver hits you on a road that is unsafely designed, your ability to obtain damages from the government entity responsible for the roadway might constitute the difference between receiving fair compensation and no recovery. When a plaintiff fails to file their lawsuit before the expiration of the statute of limitations, noncompliance with this deadline can bar your lawsuit without consideration of the merits of your claim. Our attorneys at Shiner Law Group guide our clients through the litigation process avoiding these types of procedural pitfalls.

Network of Highly Regarded Experts: Many personal injury cases become a battle between experts with specialized knowledge about accident reconstruction, medical facts, manufacturing processes, trucking industry safety, and a multitude of other disciplines. Because our accident injury lawyers have handled hundreds of personal injury cases, we have an established network of industry-specific experts who can provide guidance in untangling complex evidence, testify about the required standard of care, identify negligent conduct that deviates from industry and safety standards, and provide other support for our clients’ cases. We routinely work with many types of experts, including but not limited to the following:

• Accident Deconstructionist
• Trucking Industry Experts
• Forensic Accountants/Economists
• Vocational Counselors
• Manufacturing Experts
• Engineers
• Construction Experts
• Law Enforcement Officers

These are only a few examples of individuals with specialized knowledge that we might utilize when constructing a personal injury or wrongful death claim for our clients. We recognize that an expert with impeccable credentials and the ability to explain complex concepts to laypersons can have a significant impact on the outcome of a lawsuit.

Assuming the Financial Risk of Litigation: Although the cost of funding a lawsuit can vary widely based on the facts and circumstances, our law firm generally advances the cost of litigation. Most people do not have tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars to dedicate to bankrolling a lawsuit. Our law firm advances these costs, which will ultimately be covered by the judgment or settlement we obtain from our client. Our law firm represents injury victims and families on a contingency fee basis, so you typically only owe attorney fees when we recover compensation through a verdict or settlement. Because the attorney fees you pay will be a percentage of your damages, our law firm typically assumes the financial risk. We also have a strong motivation to obtain the fullest recovery for our clients.

Effective Discovery & Investigation of Facts: Whether we are representing individuals injured by a fatigued trucker, distracted driver, or a defective product, our law firm engages in a thorough investigation of the facts and circumstances. This initial investigation, which might include obtaining law enforcement accident reports, visiting the site of an accident, and analyzing your medical records, will inform our use of the discovery process. Effective discovery will significantly impact the outcome of your personal injury claim. We might use depositions, document requests, interrogatories, requests for admission, document subpoenas, and other discovery tools, so we can narrow the issues, reveal potential defenses, develop theories of liability, and otherwise build a compelling case for our clients.

Protecting Plaintiffs from Ill-Advised Disclosures: Without an experienced personal injury lawyer, plaintiffs might make damaging statements to insurance adjusters, such as a car accident victim admitting that he or she was not buckled up when the crash occurred. Even when plaintiffs do not directly make damaging admissions to a representative of the insurance company, unrepresented clients who share accident information on their social media websites can undermine their claim because insurance investigators now routinely search the social media pages of injury victims. While a person who has injuries will have good days and bad days, pictures of you engaged in certain physical activity could be problematic when you are pursuing a claim for a severe back injury that resulted in permanent disability. While some people think posting information in password-protected areas of social media websites constitutes a safe practice, a growing number of lawsuits have been impacted by a judge ordering the plaintiff to provide login information to secure areas of social media pages. Judges have also held sanctioned parties that have attempted to delete damaging information after being ordered to provide login credentials.

Attorneys Focused on Personal Injury Law: Although you might have had an estate planning lawyer draft a simple will, you can gain a substantial advantage by working with an experienced personal injury and wrongful death lawyer. Areas of legal specialization are too complex for a single attorney to effectively handle many different areas of law. At Shiner Law Group, we are litigators with a practice narrowly focused on serious injury claims.

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Categories of Cases Handled by Our Delray Beach Injury Law Firm

Our extensive experience representing individuals who have suffered catastrophic injuries or lost loved ones means that we have the legal expertise and factual familiarity to handle many types of injury cases. Some of the types of personal injury cases we handle include:

Motor Vehicle Accidents: Our personal injury attorneys handle all types of vehicular accident legal claims covering the full spectrum of vehicles, such as passenger cars, tractor-trailers, 15-passenger vans, SUVs, pickup trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians. We have represented clients injured by many forms of negligent driving, such as speeding, running red lights or traffic signals, distracted driving, DWI/DUI, tailgating, failure to yield, aggressive driving, alcohol-impaired driving, and other forms of unsafe operation of a vehicle. We also represent victims injured by other factors like defective vehicles, dangerous roads, substandard vehicle maintenance, and other non-driving causes.

Nursing Home Litigation: With the baby boomer generation approaching their golden years, the rising demand for nursing home services will put an increasing strain on public health dollars. Understaffing in nursing homes is a serious problem that promotes chronic neglect and abuse of elderly residents. The scope of the nursing home abuse problem has resulted in verdicts and settlements in the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars range against large nursing home chains. Our Boca Raton nursing home attorneys provide a voice to elderly residents subject to physical abuse, emotional abuse, mental abuse, and chronic neglect. Our law firm seeks compensation for elderly residents of long-term care facilities while also creating financial incentives for other nursing homes to adopt adequate safety practices, maintain an adequately trained staff, and exercise diligence in providing for the medical, physical, and emotional needs of elderly residents.

Defective Products: When large product manufacturers introduce defective products into the market, the consequences can be life-altering injuries and even fatalities. Our injury attorneys represent consumers injured by defectively designed or manufactured products. We also can pursue a claim when a product causes injury because it comes with inadequate warning or instructions. When unsafe products cause serious injury to consumers, the designer, manufacturer, and retailer might be obligated to compensate the injured consumer. While corporations and other companies that provide products can be liable for failing to exercise reasonable care to ensure that their products are safe, they also might be subject to strict liability if the defect was present when the product left the entity’s facility.

Slip, Trip & Fall Accidents: The media often spoofs fall-related accidents, but slip and fall and trip and fall accidents can have devastating consequences. Falls are the leading cause of preventable death among adults 65 and older according to the National Safety Council (NSC). While falls pose the highest risk of injury to older persons, people of all ages suffer broken legs, knee injuries, broken arms, spinal cord injuries, and traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) in slip and fall or trip and fall accidents. Our Boca Raton personal injury attorneys recognize that fall-related lawsuits can be difficult to prove because of the fact-intensive nature of these claims. Our law firm conducts careful investigations that include reviewing accident reports, interviewing witnesses (employees, other customers), researching building code violations, analyzing maintenance records, and more. This investigation allows us to identify the negligent conduct that caused injury to our clients when visiting stores, university campuses, apartment complexes, amusement parks, and other property with fall hazards.

Premises Liability: When property owners fail to take reasonable care to warn of hazard or keep their premises clear of unsafe conditions, the consequences can be serious injury for those who come on the property. Whether you are bitten by a dog that is not adequately secured behind a gate or a loved one drowns in a neighbor’s swimming pool, our Palm Beach County personal injury lawyers seek compensation for those injured on the property of others. There are many types of hazards that might result in injury when care is not taken to provide adequate warnings or make hazards safe. These hazards include but are not limited to inadequate maintenance of the premises, unsafe or broken steps or staircases, escalator or elevator accidents, negligent security, canine attacks, amusement park accidents, resort accidents, pool and spa accidents, fires, and exposure to toxic chemicals or substances.

General Negligence: The forms of careless or inattentive conduct that can cause serious injury are virtually limitless. Our Florida personal injury attorneys have the expertise and experience to provide legal representation for injuries caused by dangerous drugs, construction accidents, workplace injuries, travel accidents, cruise accidents, and other forms of unreasonably careless conduct.

Wrongful Death: When a loved one is taken from you prematurely, the emotional impact can be devastating. The loss of a family breadwinner can impose overwhelming financial hardships on surviving family members. The mental stress and pain of losing a loved can be even more agonizing when the death is caused by the negligent, reckless, or intentional misconduct of a third party. Our Boca Raton personal injury law firm seeks compensation both for the damages suffered by the fatality victim and the losses incurred by a surviving spouse and/or children.

Important Tips to Avoid Compromising Your Personal Injury Claim

When an injury victim obtains prompt legal representation from an experienced personal injury lawyer, he or she will minimize potential mistakes that might compromise a personal injury claim. Because you can preserve your legal claim by taking some simple precautions, we have provided suggestions to position your claim for a full recovery.

Seek Medical Attention ASAP: The importance of obtaining prompt medical attention can hardly be overstated. Some injuries like traumatic brain injuries can become worse when not treated promptly. If you have bleeding inside your skull, pressure can increase and cause brain damage that could have been prevented with timely medical attention. The insurance company might also contend that any delay in seeking medical treatment demonstrates your injuries are fabricated or exaggerated. Diagnostic screening like X-rays, MRIs, and CT scans can be important evidence in documenting your injuries. The insurance company might also challenge the severity of your injury if you fail to complete your course of treatment.

Gather Evidence: If you are physically able to gather evidence at a car accident scene, this preservation of evidence can strengthen your legal claim. The names of the witnesses and the driver’s license, license plate, and insurance information of the other driver should be obtained. Pictures also should be taken of the accident scene, any injuries, vehicle damage, and relevant physical features of the area or roadway. The vehicle should be left in its post-crash condition, and all debris saved to aid in accident reconstruction analysis.

Obtain Legal Representation: There are many traps for the unwary that can derail a personal injury claim, including damaging admissions, signing documents waiving your rights, and even accepting lowball settlements. When you immediately retain legal representation, your Boca Raton personal injury lawyer can guide you past potential pitfalls while navigating legal complexities and insurance company sharp practices.

Avoid Discussing You Case: While attorney-client privilege typically will protect the information you provide your lawyer, the same protection does not extend to facts you share with other people. The best practice is not to discuss your personal injury claim or the underlying incident with anyone but your lawyer. This recommendation includes not posting information about your accident on your social media site. The attorneys at our law firm advise discontinuing all posting on social media websites when you have a pending personal injury claim.

If you or someone you love has been seriously injured by the negligent, reckless, or intentional acts of an individual, corporation, or government entity, we welcome you to contact our experienced legal team so that we can evaluate your claim and advise you of your rights and options. We are committed to helping victims recover the compensation they need to move past their car accident, so contact us 24/7 at 561-777-7700 or online for a free case review to see how we can help. The Shiner Law Group represents injury victims in Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Palm Beach County, and throughout the surrounding counties.