Injured in Miami? We Can Help.

Templer & Hirsch are Miami personal injury lawyers, working from an office a short drive north in Aventura. We handle car and motorcycle accidents, truck crashes, wrongful death claims, and brain and spinal cord injuries anywhere in Miami and Miami-Dade County. Free consultation, and no fee unless we recover.

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Truck Crashes on the 836, the Palmetto and the Port Routes

Miami moves more commercial freight than any city in Florida, and the truck traffic is concentrated on a handful of corridors. Drayage runs between PortMiami and the warehouse districts put tractor-trailers through downtown and onto the Dolphin Expressway. Air cargo out of Miami International Airport feeds the NW 36th Street and Milam Dairy Road corridors all day. The Palmetto Expressway carries both, along with the construction and dump truck traffic serving the western suburbs. A Miami truck accident lawyer is working against a clock most people do not know about: the electronic logging device data, the dashcam footage and the maintenance file that decide these cases are kept on retention schedules measured in months, and a national carrier will have an adjuster and often a defense team at the scene the same day. A letter preserving that evidence should go out in the first week.

Wrongful Death Claims in Miami-Dade

Florida does not let just anyone file after a death. Under Fla. Stat. 768.20 the wrongful death action is brought by the personal representative of the estate, on behalf of the estate and the surviving family members the statute recognizes, which means the probate side and the injury side have to move together. The deadline is two years from the date of death under Fla. Stat. 95.11(4)(e), shorter than most people assume, and it does not pause while the family sorts out the estate. What the claim covers also differs from an injury case: lost support and services, loss of companionship for a spouse, loss of parental companionship for children, the mental pain and suffering the statute allows each survivor, and the medical and funeral expenses someone has already paid. A Miami wrongful death lawyer should be talking to the family about the estate paperwork in the first conversation, because nothing else can be filed until a personal representative is appointed.

Brain and Spinal Injuries, and What Ryder Trauma Records Prove

Serious head and spine trauma in Miami-Dade goes to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial, the county’s Level I trauma center, and the record created in those first hours does more work in a claim than anything that comes later. Imaging, Glasgow Coma Scale scores, intubation notes and the trauma team’s own narrative are what a carrier reads when it decides whether to treat an injury as real. The problem case is the brain injury that does not show on the initial CT. A person walks out with a normal scan and then cannot hold a schedule, follow a conversation or go back to the job they had, and the insurer points at the scan. Those claims are built with neuropsychological testing, treating physicians and the people who knew the person before. Our catastrophic injury lawyers handle the brain and spinal cord side, including the life care plan that sets the number.

Premises Claims Downtown, in Brickell and on the Beach Routes

Miami premises cases cluster in a few predictable places: hotel and restaurant frontage in Brickell and downtown, parking garages, apartment and condominium common areas, and construction sites where a sidewalk has been rerouted around scaffolding. Florida requires a slip and fall claimant to prove the business knew or should have known about the hazard under Fla. Stat. 768.0755, which in practice means the surveillance video and the inspection log decide the case. Both get overwritten or discarded on short cycles, so a preservation letter matters more here than almost anywhere else.

Injury Types We Handle in Miami

Whatever happened in Miami, the claim is decided by the same three things: which policies can be reached, what the medical record proves, and how fast the evidence was saved. These pages cover each case type in detail.

Courts, Roads and Hospitals in Miami

Where suit is filed
Miami-Dade County Courthouse, 73 West Flagler Street, Miami
Judicial circuit
Eleventh Judicial Circuit
Roads we see most
I-95, US-1 and Biscayne Boulevard, the Dolphin Expressway (SR-836), the Palmetto Expressway (SR-826), Brickell Avenue, Flagler Street, NW 36th Street and the MacArthur and Venetian Causeways
Where the injured are treated
Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, the Level I trauma center for Miami-Dade County, with Mount Sinai Medical Center, Baptist Hospital of Miami and Mercy Hospital serving emergency and specialty care

Miami Injury Claims: Common Questions

A commercial truck hit me in Miami. What should happen first?
Evidence preservation. The carrier’s electronic logging data, dashcam footage, driver qualification file and maintenance records are all on retention schedules, and some of them can lawfully be destroyed within months. A spoliation letter demanding preservation should go out before anything else. The other early question is who the defendant actually is, because the driver, the tractor owner, the trailer owner, the broker and the shipper can all be separate companies with separate policies.
Who can file a wrongful death claim in Miami?
Only the personal representative of the estate, under Fla. Stat. 768.20, acting for the estate and the survivors the statute recognizes: generally a spouse, children, parents, and any blood relative or adoptive sibling who was dependent on the person who died. That is why a wrongful death case usually starts with a probate filing to get a personal representative appointed.
How long do I have to file after a death in Florida?
Two years from the date of death under Fla. Stat. 95.11(4)(e). It is shorter than the deadline for most injury claims and it does not wait while the family opens the estate, so the two tracks need to run at the same time.
Where would my Miami case be filed?
In the Eleventh Judicial Circuit at the Miami-Dade County Courthouse, 73 West Flagler Street in Miami.

Nearby Communities We Serve

  • Coral Gables Car & Bicycle Accidents · Premises Liability · Wrongful Death
  • Doral Truck & Highway Crashes · Warehouse & Workplace Injuries · Premises Claims
  • Hialeah Car & Pedestrian Accidents · Workplace Injuries · Premises Liability
  • Kendall Car & Pedestrian Accidents · Premises Liability · Wrongful Death
  • North Miami Beach Car Accidents · Pedestrian Injuries · Condominium Premises Claims