Florida Injury Claim Guide Plain-English answers to Florida injury-claim questions, every one tied to the statute.

Sources

Everything on this site traces to something on this page. Statute text comes from the Florida Legislature's own site; rules come from The Florida Bar; agency material comes from the agency. All links read August 14, 2026.

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Florida statutes

SectionSubjectUsed on
Fla. Stat. 95.11Limitations periods, including the 2-year negligence deadlineDeadlines
Fla. Stat. 95.051Tolling of limitations periodsDeadlines
Fla. Stat. 766.104Automatic 90-day extension in medical malpracticeDeadlines
Fla. Stat. 766.106Medical malpractice presuit notice and tollingDeadlines
Fla. Stat. 766.118Medical malpractice noneconomic caps — subsections (2) and (3) held unconstitutional and not enforcedFault and damages
Fla. Stat. 768.28Claims against the State and its subdivisions: notice, deadline, and the $200,000 / $300,000 capsDeadlines
Fla. Stat. 627.732No-fault definitions, including emergency medical conditionPIP and no-fault
Fla. Stat. 766.207Voluntary binding arbitration in medical malpractice, and its $250,000 noneconomic limitFault and damages
Fla. Stat. 766.209Consequences of rejecting arbitration, including the $350,000 noneconomic limit at trialFault and damages
Fla. Stat. 768.72Pleading gate for punitive damagesFault and damages
Fla. Stat. 768.73Punitive damages capsFault and damages
Fla. Stat. 768.81Comparative fault and the over-50% barFault and damages
Fla. Stat. 768.0427Admissibility of medical expense evidenceFault and damages
Fla. Stat. 768.0701Premises liability for criminal acts of third partiesProperty and dog bites
Fla. Stat. 768.0706Multifamily property security and presumption against liabilityProperty and dog bites
Fla. Stat. 768.0755Slip and fall on a transitory foreign substanceProperty and dog bites
Fla. Stat. 767.04Dog owner liabilityProperty and dog bites
Fla. Stat. 627.736Personal Injury Protection benefitsPIP and no-fault
Fla. Stat. 627.737Threshold for noneconomic damages in auto casesPIP and no-fault
Fla. Stat. 324.022Financial responsibility: property damage liabilityPIP and no-fault
Fla. Stat. 324.023Bodily injury coverage required after a DUI convictionPIP and no-fault
Fla. Stat. 316.066Crash reports: 60-day confidentiality and who may obtain themCrash report

Legislation

Cases

  • Estate of McCall v. United States, 134 So. 3d 894 (Fla. 2014) — struck the medical malpractice noneconomic cap as applied to wrongful death. Opinion.
  • Poole v. DeFranko (Fla. 3d DCA, December 18, 2019) — held the medical malpractice arbitration limits in ss. 766.207 and 766.209 were not considered by, and did not fall with, McCall and Kalitan.
  • North Broward Hospital District v. Kalitan, 219 So. 3d 49 (Fla. 2017), No. SC15-1858, decided June 8, 2017 — extended that holding to personal injury. Opinion (PDF) · Florida Bar News report.

Florida Bar

Agency and statistical sources

Reporting

  • Insurance Journal, May 5, 2026 — the 2026 PIP repeal bills died in committee, and law-firm and insurance web pages were falsely claiming PIP had been repealed.

Not yet used, and why

Two sources this site should carry and does not yet, listed so the gap is visible rather than papered over with an estimate:

  • FLHSMV Florida Traffic Crash Facts annual report — statewide and county-level crash, injury, and fatality counts. Published by the agency; not retrievable at the time of writing.
  • Florida courts Trial Court Statistical Reference Guide — circuit civil filings and dispositions. Note that it publishes caseload counts, not average claim timelines, so no “average Florida injury case takes X months” figure will appear here.