Author Archives: Jay Butchko
Damages In Florida Wrongful Death Cases
The last thing that most people want to do when they have lost a loved one is to try and quantify the nature of that loss. However, it is an important part of filing a wrongful death claim, and if your loved one died as a result of someone else’s negligence, you have the… Read More »
What Is An Idiopathic Injury?
There are many, many different types of injuries that a person can sustain, most of which can be incurred on or off the job. One of the most perplexing and often frightening types is what medicine calls an idiopathic injury. If something is idiopathic, it means that there is no immediately discernible cause for… Read More »
Florida Burn Injuries
Burns are among the most serious injuries that a person can sustain, because it takes very little time for significant, long-term damage to be done to the body. If you were burned due to someone else’s recklessness or negligence, it can seem to be even worse, because it could have been avoidable. Contacting an… Read More »
Third Party Claims For Workplace Injuries
When an employee is injured on the job, most of the time they will file for workers’ compensation, as they are generally entitled to do. However, there are some claims where liability would be more properly alleged against a third party – someone on the premises, or someone off the premises who might still… Read More »
Personal Injury Claims For Psychological Injuries
When someone is injured in an accident, they most often try to seek compensation for any physical injury they may have suffered. It is much less common for personal injury lawsuits to be brought based on psychological trauma, or on any other type of invisible illness or injury – and yet they cause as… Read More »
Identifying Employers’ Retaliatory Conduct After A Workers’ Comp Claim
Unless someone falls under a very specific exception, every employee is entitled to make a workers’ compensation claim if they are injured on the job. However, some employers will take the news of a workers’ compensation claim as a personal slight, or see it as somehow undermining their authority, and may take what is… Read More »
What Is The “Course and Scope of Employment”?
When you have been injured on the job, and you begin the process of filing for workers’ compensation, the very first question that will be asked of you is whether or not your injury occurred within the scope of your employment. While most of the time, the answer is an easy yes or no,… Read More »
Showing Traumatic Brain Injuries In Court
In civil litigation, proof of injuries is a major cornerstone of the evidence required to hold a defendant liable. However, some injuries can easily be misunderstood or misinterpreted, which may lead to an adverse outcome when it is not necessarily appropriate. Nowhere is this more common than with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), which are… Read More »
Workers’ Compensation For Injuries With Unknown Causes
It might seem impossible that an employee could be compensated for an injury that occurs on the job if the cause is unknown. However, in some situations, Florida workers’ compensation law does allow this, as long as the employee can show that their employment was the major contributing cause of the injury. If you… Read More »
Florida Slip & Fall Cases Can Be Difficult To Win
Slip and fall accidents are some of the most commonly seen personal injury cases in this day and age. However, they have become something of a joke; they are often assumed to be silly, avoidable incidents due largely to the victim’s own recklessness. This could not be further from the truth, but stigma is… Read More »