MATTHEW D. POWELL, P.A.
TAMPA, FLORIDA

How can we help you? How can we help you? How can we help you? If you have questions about a crash and would like to speak with a Tampa car accident lawyer, please call us at MattLaw. We will be glad to give you a free consultation. If you have a case that we can accept, we will take your case on a contingency fee basis, which means you don’t pay us anything up front. We only get paid when we make a recovery for you. We are experienced Tampa personal injury attorneys helping people and families for over 20 years with car accident cases. Don’t move anyone that is badly injured unless there is a danger for greater injury by leaving them where they are. If you are hurt and are not in grave danger, it is usually best to remain in your car until medical help arrives. Preserve any evidence, such as the identity of witnesses who may be able to help explain that the other driver was at fault. Get the other drivers name, address, and insurance company, as well as the other vehicle owners information too. you will need. Your motorcycle accident lawyer should hire an accident reconstruction expert immediately to analyze the scene and the vehicles involved. They should also obtain the vehicle’s black box to determine the car’s speed before the vehicle is destroyed or sold by the insurance company as salvage. The car or truck driver’s insurance company often retains accident reconstruction experts as soon as they are notified. You need one as well to have the same evidence as the insurance company because they probably won’t turn over all of the evidence. to making a fair and full recovery for your losses. If you or a loved one has been in a motorcycle accident, you should hire an experienced motorcycle accident lawyer immediately. Hiring an experienced motorcycle accident lawyer immediately is crucial. Use this guide to help you or a loved one if in a motorcycle accident. If you have any questions or would like to speak with an experienced Tampa motorcycle accident lawyer, Matt Powell would be glad to speak with you at The investigation within the first few days are critical to protect the key evidence to win your case. In a perfect world, the truck driver would admit his fault and you would be paid for your losses. Unfortunately, the world is far from perfect and the truth is that good people like you, often pay for the greed of the transportation companies. Much like insurance companies, the trucking industry is all about one thing: Making Profits. They will do anything to get out of paying an accident claim that was clearly their fault. . He has been helping victims of truck accidents and their families for over 27 years. Don’t move anyone that is badly injured. Unless there is a danger for greater injury by leaving them where they are. If you are hurt, but not in danger, remain in your car until medical help arrives. Preserve any evidence. This includes the identity of witnesses who may be able to explain the other driver was at fault. Get the other drivers name, address, and insurance company, as well as the other vehicle owners information too. Please do not talk to anyone about your accident other than law enforcement personnel. Anything you say to insurance company representatives or investigators could make it harder for you to settle your claim. The claim may also be brought against the employer, company or agent of whoever caused the death. Wrongful death claims arise as a result of auto accidents, personal injury accidents, medical malpractice, construction site accidents, dangerous or defective products, or failure to provide adequate security, or drugs, or other accidents, negligence or injuries. The loss of a loved one is a devastating and tragic event that no one should experience. Especially when the death is caused by the needless fault of another. Losing a family member can be both emotionally and financially difficult. By knowing your rights and understanding the process of wrongful death claims, I hope to help you and your family with the stress and hardships you may be facing. My name is . I’m a Tampa wrongful death attorney who is Board Certified by the Florida Bar as a Civil Trial Lawyer. I’ve created this six-part video series to help explain some of the legal intricacies about wrongful death claims. This first video explains the questions about the purpose of the law, who can bring a claim, who is entitled to compensation, what are the general types of losses that can be sought as damages, and the These types of damages can be measured with the help of experts such as accountants and economists. One of the first and most basic economic losses is the loss of support and services. Loss of support talks about earnings that the decedent would have earned up until the time of their death and future lost wages. Services are things that people do for their family, but are not paid for doing them, such as chores around the house and spending time with children. Experts are used determine the extent of any lost services and calculate a dollar figure of the services that were provided to the family by the decedent. Decedents with stable lifestyles receive a higher value on the services they provided than a decedent with an unstable lifestyle, such as having a drug addiction. Watch this video to learn more about the details of what you are entitled to in a wrongful death claim. What is it about wrongful death that makes it so heavy, disturbing, and shocking? Why is the death of a loved one so complicated and difficult for us to deal with? When a death is sudden, unexpected, traumatic, preventable, and caused by a human wrong-doer, the intensity, duration, and the processing of the grief is unique and not normal. A wrongful death is an unnatural end to a life. The life was prevented from living its natural course. When a life is wrongfully taken from us, we and our family go through a totally unnatural change in our lives. As survivors, we experience grief in a totally different way than we would feel from a natural death. A natural death is like when a grandparent dies of old-age who lived a long life. We have time to deal with the impending loss, resolve any issues, have time to prepare, and understand the death. We have time to emotionally prepare for the death. A wrongful death is much different because no one is prepared. It robs of us the normal preparation time and we are prevented from communicating with our loved ones. There is no closure. Watch the video to better understand the emotional impacts caused by wrongful death and how to cope with them.