Construction Accident Lawyer Davie, FL

Injured on a job site in Davie?

Workers’ compensation is where these claims start, not where they end.

Davie keeps building. The South Florida Education Center campuses expand, the corridors along Griffin Road and University Drive redevelop, and residential work runs steadily across the town’s 35 square miles. Every one of those sites puts subcontractors, equipment suppliers, and property owners on the same ground under separate contracts, and that structure is exactly what opens a claim beyond the comp check. Our construction accident lawyer in Davie, FL looks for the party outside your employer who caused the injury. Call (561) 567-7163 for a free consultation.

Construction Accident Lawyer in Davie, FL

Most injured workers are told the same thing on day one: file comp, that is your only option. It is half true. Workers’ compensation pays medical care and partial wages without anyone proving fault, and in exchange it usually blocks you from suing your own employer.

It never blocks a claim against someone else. A subcontractor whose crew dropped material, a general contractor who ran an unsafe site, a scaffold company, an equipment manufacturer, a property owner who hid a hazard. A Davie construction injury attorney reads the site structure first, because that is where the difference between a comp file and a full damages claim shows up.

Table of Contents

1. Construction Accident Lawyer in Davie, FL
2. Why Choose Jacobson Injury Firm for Job Site Injuries
3. Types of Construction Accident Cases We Handle
4. Workers’ Compensation and the Third-Party Claim
5. OSHA Standards and How Violations Help Your Case
6. Damages in a Davie Construction Accident Claim
7. Frequently Asked Questions
8. Contact Jacobson Injury Firm

Why Choose Jacobson Injury Firm for Job Site Injuries

Someone Who Reads the Contracts, Not Just the Injury Report

Third-party claims live inside subcontracts, indemnity clauses, and certificates of insurance. Adam Jacobson earned his Juris Doctor from Florida International University College of Law and is a member of The Florida Bar, with additional admissions in New York, Connecticut, and Illinois. Multi-state admissions help when the equipment maker or the general contractor answers to a parent company somewhere else.

Results That Reflect Lifetime Costs

Our firm has recovered millions of dollars for injured clients. Construction injuries end careers, and a settlement built on today’s medical bills ignores the forty years of lost earning capacity behind them.

No Fee unless We Recover

Construction accident claims in Davie, FL run on a contingency fee agreement, with expert costs advanced by the firm.

What Our Clients Say

“I’ve worked with Adam and known him for many years and found him to be an excellent attorney. Adam is persistent and dedicated as an advocate, and these traits benefit his clients immeasurably.” 

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Types of Construction Accident Cases We Handle

• Falls from height: Scaffolds, ladders, roofs, and unprotected floor openings. The federal fall protection rules are specific enough to prove a breach against a measurable standard.
• Struck-by incidents: Dropped tools and material, swinging loads, and vehicles moving through the work zone.
• Caught-in and caught-between: Trench collapse, equipment pinch points, and material shifts. These produce crush injuries and amputations.
• Electrocution: Contact with live lines, unlabeled panels, and failed lockout procedures, frequently causing severe burn injuries.
• Crane, lift, and heavy equipment failures: Mechanical failure points at the manufacturer or maintenance provider rather than the employer.
• Defective tools and materials: A tool that fails under normal use supports a product liability claim against the maker.
• Vehicle and roadway work zone crashes: Workers struck by passing traffic along Davie’s arterials, which brings the driver’s auto coverage into the claim.

Workers’ Compensation and the Third-Party Claim

Florida Statute § 440.11 makes workers’ compensation the exclusive remedy against your employer, replacing all other liability, including vicarious liability. That exclusivity has edges worth knowing:

• The intentional tort exception: Exclusivity falls away where the worker proves by clear and convincing evidence that the employer engaged in conduct it knew was virtually certain to cause injury or death, the worker did not know of the risk because the danger was not apparent, and the employer deliberately concealed or misrepresented it. The standard is demanding and occasionally met.
• Uninsured employers: An employer who failed to secure required compensation coverage loses the protection.
• Fellow employees: Exclusivity does not shield a coworker acting with willful and wanton disregard, unprovoked physical aggression, or gross negligence.

Outside those edges, the money comes from third parties, and the negligence standard applies normally. Comparative fault under Florida Statute § 768.81 reduces recovery by your share and bars it past 50 percent, and you have two years to file under Florida Statute § 95.11. A comp carrier that paid your bills will assert a lien against the third-party recovery, and negotiating that lien down is part of the work.

OSHA Standards and How Violations Help Your Case

OSHA’s Construction Focus Four names the hazards that kill construction workers: falls, caught-in or -between, struck-by, and electrocution. Nearly every serious site injury traces to one of them.

Specific standards give the case a measuring stick. 29 CFR 1926.501 requires fall protection for any unprotected side or edge six feet or more above a lower level, through guardrails, safety nets, or a personal fall arrest system, and requires the employer to verify that walking and working surfaces can support workers safely before anyone steps on them.

An OSHA citation does not decide a civil case on its own. It does establish what the industry standard required and what the responsible party failed to do, and that framing carries real weight with a jury. We request the inspection file early and pair it with site photographs, daily reports, and witness accounts, because that evidence gets cleaned up quickly.

Damages in a Davie Construction Accident Claim

A third-party claim reaches damages that workers’ compensation never pays. Comp covers medical treatment and a portion of lost wages. It pays nothing for pain and suffering, nothing for disfigurement, and nothing for a spouse’s loss of consortium.

Economic damages in the civil claim cover the full medical picture, future surgeries, vocational retraining, and the earning capacity a [catastrophic injury] takes away. Where a worker dies, the family pursues a [wrongful death] claim against the responsible party.

Insurance companies defending contractors move fast to take recorded statements. Nothing requires you to give one before you have counsel.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I file a claim if I am undocumented? 

Yes. Florida’s workers’ compensation system and third-party injury claims do not turn on immigration status.

My employer says I was an independent contractor. What should I do?

That label gets applied loosely on job sites and does not settle the question. Courts look at the actual working relationship, and the classification affects which route applies.

Will filing cost me my job? 

Retaliation for pursuing a comp claim is prohibited. Tell us if it happens.

How does the comp lien work? 

The carrier seeks repayment from your third-party recovery. The lien is negotiable, and reducing it is part of what we handle. Our case timelines page shows where that falls in the process.

Contact Jacobson Injury Firm

Job sites change daily. Scaffolding comes down, equipment leaves, and crews rotate to the next project. The site that injured you may not exist in recognizable form a month from now.

Consultations are free, and we work on contingency. Contact us to talk through what happened on site. A construction accident attorney in Davie, FL can tell you whether a third-party claim exists before the comp carrier closes your file.