Bus Accident Attorney in Orlando
Injured in a Bus Crash? Preserve Evidence & Protect Your Claim
A bus crash can leave passengers, pedestrians, cyclists, and occupants of other vehicles facing serious injuries and uncertainty about who is responsible. Liability may depend on the driver’s conduct, the transportation provider, the vehicle’s condition, boarding procedures, roadway hazards, or another motorist.
Evidence can disappear quickly. Crash reports, photographs, witness details, route or vehicle numbers, medical records, and available surveillance footage can shape how a claim is evaluated.
Call our bus accident lawyers at (888) 979-4941 to discuss the crash and your next steps.
Engineering-Informed Analysis & Direct Litigator Oversight
Our founder and chief litigator, Carolyn Salzmann, personally oversees every case that enters our office. Her chemical engineering background adds a technical perspective when examining collision forces, injury causation, and conflicting accounts of how a crash occurred.
We focus exclusively on personal injury law and have recovered more than $20 million for clients facing serious injuries and life-changing accidents. Those results span our personal injury practice and don’t promise what may be recovered in any individual claim.
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Your Questions, Answered
Get Clear, Straightforward Answers from Experienced Personal Injury Attorneys
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In all cases, there are two general categories of damages – economic damages and non-economic damages. You can be compensated for both past and future economic and non-economic damages.
Economic damages are things such as wage loss, mileage expense to go to doctor appointments, prescription costs, co-pays on insurance, over-the-counter medications, diminution in value to your car, etc. The other category is non-economic damages, which may include things such as pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, emotional distress, etc.
The non-economic damages are often greater than the economic damages if the injuries are significant enough. Consult with an attorney for a full explanation of these types of damages.
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Yes. Under Florida law, there are very specific, detailed deadlines to file claims. If you do not meet these deadlines, you may be forever barred from bringing your claim forward.
These time restrictions are known as statutes of limitations, and they vary depending on the type of claim you are bringing. It is critical that you consult with an attorney as soon as possible after your incident so you can receive good legal advice on the time limits for filing a personal injury claim.
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Wage loss is paid out under your Personal Injury Protection benefit, which happens to be mandatory coverage for auto insurance in the State of Florida. There are exceptions, such as when you elected to have your wage loss reimbursement excluded on your Personal Injury Protection (PIP) benefit when you obtained your policy.
Normally, people who have their wage loss benefits excluded are those who are not employed for some reason or another. You can also elect to have a standard PIP (which covers wage loss at 60%) or extended PIP (which covers wage loss at 80%).
You will need to provide proof of income in the form of a paycheck stub, income tax return, or some other verifiable means. The remaining percentage of your wage loss not covered by your PIP insurance will become part of your claim against the defendant driver.
When cases do not involve PIP coverage, the wage loss becomes part of the demand to the at-fault party. In most cases, proof of lost income is rather simple if the injured person receives a paycheck. For our clients who are self-employed, we work very closely with them to help them assemble the necessary documentation to prove the wage loss claim. Tax returns can be helpful in instances where clients are self-employed.
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Out-of-pocket expenses are always made part of your claim and are part of your economic damages that we seek to recover from the at-fault party. When your claim is presented to the at-fault party, we include your out-of-pocket expenses as part of the demand package.
If your case does not settle in what we call the "pre-suit phase," then your case will proceed to court where we will ask a jury for your out-of-pocket expenses as part of your economic damages on the verdict form.
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Your insurance premiums should not go up if you are not at fault for the accident. It will be part of your insurance record, but if you are not at fault, your premiums should not increase.
In most situations, your own insurance company will go after the insurance company that insures the at-fault party to recover the costs it may have paid to you for things such as car repairs or additional medical expenses.
Focused Representation From a Bus Accident Lawyer in Orlando
A serious bus injury claim may require more than reviewing a police report and an insurance policy. Medical and wage-loss documentation, witness accounts, video, vehicle and maintenance records, and evidence held by the transportation provider may all require close attention.
We accept a limited number of serious injury cases so a senior attorney can remain involved from the first contact through resolution. Our all-female personal injury trial team provides direct advocacy and personalized guidance while keeping clients informed as the evidence and legal issues develop.
We’re available 24/7 and offer flexible in-person or virtual appointments. During the consultation, we can review what happened, identify evidence that may still be available, and explain the next stage of the claim.
Bus Claims Across Central Florida
We serve injured people throughout Orlando and Central Florida. Local bus service through LYNX connects Orange, Osceola, and Seminole counties, with additional service reaching small portions of Polk and Lake counties. Private shuttles, school transportation, and charter operators also travel throughout the region.
The route, bus number, crash location, transportation provider, and governing entity can affect where evidence is held and which procedures apply. These details are particularly important when determining whether a claim involves a private company or a governmental entity.
