Chipley, FL Personal Injury Law Firms & Lawyers

Proving the extent of your injury will be based on testimony from your treating physicians. You mention that you have the symptoms for TBI. However, you have stated that any doctor has diagnosed you with TBI. If the Neurologist or Eye Doctor were unable to determine what is wrong with you, normally they would keep administering tests until they can diagnose the problem, or would refer you on to another specialist, unless they do not think anything is wrong. Lawyers are not qualified to refer you to doctors for help, although some lawyer's do. Normally, if a lawyer refers you to a doctor, it messes up your case because the doctor will be perceived as a hired gun for the attorney. You need to ask you doctor for advice on where to go from here .

In Florida, merely because someone is injured on the property of another does not make the property owner responsible. You would have the burden of proving that the gasoline had been on the ground for a period of time that the owner, in the exercise of due care, should have known of its existence and failed to clean it up. I think that would be very difficult to prove after the fact. Typically, gasoline is not a slippery substance, and there was probably oil that had soaked into the concrete and the spilled gas only brought it to the surface. In any event, this doesn't sound like a provable case to me, but that's just my opinion.

For a medical malpractice case to be worth pursuing there must be substantial permanent injuries. These kinds of cases are expensive and labor intensive. Only a severe injury warrants the costs, commitment and risk of loss that an attorney must assume.