Few experiences are more frightening than being in a car, motorcycle, or bicycle accident. Drivers and riders in South Pasadena, Florida, have to be especially cautious with such close proximity to the Gulf’s white-sand beaches, shopping, restaurants, and cultural events that draw in a plethora of tourists each year. According to Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles’ Crash Statistics, an average of 400,599 crashes occur each year in the Sunshine State. While South Pasadena is small in size with a total area of 1.1 square miles, it’s a large population of mostly older drivers, and the high number of tourists each year make this area particularly accident-prone.
After being in a car, motorcycle, bicycle, or drunk driving accident, injured victims can experience extreme pain and financial hardships due to their injuries. While filing an injury claim for damages may seem simple enough, Florida’s personal injury laws are complex. These laws can make the process of reaching a resolution or settlement with an insurance company challenging for most people. Accident victims in South Pasadena look to Marsalisi Law for trusted legal representation with their injury claims.
Frank P. Marsalisi focuses exclusively on helping victims recover fair and favorable compensation that they deserve after being injured. Frank builds personal relationships with his clients to understand their needs. This one on one relationship alone adds value to the client’s accident injury claim.
Some of the benefits you can expect after partnering with Marsalisi Law include:
Depending on the facts surrounding your accident, your case might only require negotiation by a skillful attorney on your behalf. Still, in other situations, your case may have to go to trial. Frank P. Marsalisi is prepared to fight for his clients in court when the parties involved cannot reach a settlement agreement. If you or a loved one have suffered accident injuries and hardship, get the help and compensation you deserve so you can focus on what matters most – healing from your injuries and getting back to a steady life.
After an accident in Florida, victims shouldn’t delay filing a personal injury claim for damages. Florida’s strict statute of limitations allows accident victims four years to file a personal injury claim before courts refuse the case. The time limit of four years applies to victims of car, truck, motorcycle, pedestrian, and drunk-driving accidents. The statute of limitations is even shorter at three years if the claim is against a government entity, and only two years if the accident results in wrongful death.
Potential compensation that accident victims might be owed depends on the facts surrounding the accident. Generally, accident victims are entitled to damages for economic loss, non-economic loss, and even punitive damages if circumstances warrant them.
Economic damages refer to objective, tangible expenses that can be verified through bills and documents. Recovering financial reimbursement for these losses are at most times, more straightforward to prove than non-economic damages.
Economic damages in a personal injury claim include:
Compensation for non-economic damages include costs that aren’t tangible and don’t directly relate to a bill, itemized expense, or receipt. These losses include physical and mental injuries or afflictions brought on by your accident.
Non-economic damages in a personal injury claim include:
If injuries from the accident resulted in a loss of life or denied victims of a family relationship’s full benefits, then the victim’s spouse can seek non-economic damages for loss of consortium.
The final and least common type of compensation is punitive damages. This type of payment is awarded to penalize extreme misconduct for acting with malicious disregard for others’ safety. Punitive damages are intended to deter the accused from ever acting in that way again and also sending a message to the public at large. In South Pasadena, damages for injuries caused by drunk driving are a typical example of when punitive damages might be given.
After suffering in an accident caused by the carelessness of another driver, personal injury lawyer Frank Marsalisi wants to help you recover the compensation that you deserve to recover and get your life back on track. The Mission of Marsalisi Law is to provide outstanding personal legal services for each of our clients. With that Mission in mind, Frank has helped personal injury victims recover millions of dollars in personal injury settlements in South Pasadena and surrounding cities.
Frank P. Marsalisi has won many accolades for his legal service, including being the winner of St. Petersburg’s “Top 3 Personal Injury Attorney” and the “National Top 40 Under 40 Trial Lawyers” award. You’ll notice from your first consultation that Frank pays personal attention to his clients’ injury claims, and this is the hallmark of his firm, Marsalisi Law.
To schedule a free consultation and speak with Frank about your claim, complete an online contact form or call today at (727) 334-1344.
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To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
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Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to