Please accept this week’s question and the response from the accident attorney from Drucker Law Offices, a Florida law firm.
Generally, you are not “required” to give a statement to the other insurance company who caused an accident. Generally, you are required to give statements to insurance companies that you are seeking “first party” benefits, like your own insurance company who is paying your medical bills in PIP, for example. Generally, the car that caused the accident is simply providing “third party” benefits and thus there is no contractual privacy between you and that company and thus you are not required to give them a statement. From a practical standpoint, giving a statement or interview may help expedite getting your car fixed, so to that extent the statement may have some positive attributes. However, you are certainly entitled to be prepared for the statement and can do so with the help of an attorney. Indeed, one advantage of hiring an attorney is to gain the benefit of their experience. Preparing you for a statement would be one such benefit.
At Drucker law office, a free consultation is offered to all accident victims. The attorney helps to prepare you for a statement as well as all other aspects of an injury case. Please call Drucker Law Offices for a free consultation at (561) 483-9199 for Palm Beach County (Boca Raton Main office); (954) 755-2120 in Broward County (Coral Springs satellite office); or (305) 981-1561 in Miami-Dade County (Miami satellite office).
Of course, every case is unique has to be judged based on the facts of the case. The advice in this blog is intended to be general in nature and should not to be construed as specific advice for a case, as the most slight difference in the facts could ultimately change the result. Also, this blog is, as the web site suggests, based on Florida law and the laws of any other states or country could vary significantly from Florida.
