Mark B. Carroll

Mark B. Carroll is a Partner in the firm specializing in personal injury, wrongful death and business litigation. He was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School and received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame in 1986. He graduated from the University of Florida School of Law in 1989 and was honored as a member of the Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity. He has been admitted to practice before all Florida state courts since 1990, as well as the trial bar of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He has argued successfully several times before the Fourth District Court of Appeals resulting in published opinions.

Mr. Carroll was Board Certified by the Florida Bar in 1999 and then Recertified in 2004 as a specialist in the practice of Civil Trial Law. He was selected due to his depth of trial experience to the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates in 2001 and is a longtime member of the Broward County Bar Association and the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers. He has almost two decades of experience in representing claimants and tortfeasors and their insurers in disputes involving negligence and resulting injury. His clients have included south florida’s most prominent financial institutions and property owners and he currently serves on the boards of several charitable organizations including the Gold Coast Opera of Florida and the University of Notre Dame's Alumni Association.

Mr. Carroll has an established conviction that the aggressive and thorough pursuit of his client’s interests can be integrated with the highest degree of professional discipline and ethics.

Common Legal Questions

Negligence

After an accident, who pays for my car?

The first question a car owner often asks after an automobile accident is who pays for the damage and repairs to their car? Ultimately, the person found at fault will pay for repairs. However the more immediate question is how do I get the car repaired as quickly as possible. Often, the quickest way to have the car repaired is through the car owner’s own insurance. Regardless of fault, the owner’s insurance has to pay for repairs so there should not be a delay caused by investigators. The owner's insurer will contact the mechanic or the owner can drive his car to the insurer’s office for appraisal. State Farm, Allstate and other large companies often have inspection locations for obtaining quick repair estimates. The owner’s insurance is called collision coverage and may include a $500.00 or $1,000.00 deductible which often obligates the car owner to pay that amount of the repairs. The deductible will likely be recovered later on from the person at fault or his insurer.

The insurer for the person at fault may be slower in paying the repairs because they have to investigate the claim, wait for a police report and contact their insured. The upside is that the at fault insurer will often pay for a rental car or loss of use and there is no deductible. Many insurers such as Progressive now process repair bills very quickly.

In most instances, check with both insurers after an accident and have the mechanic paid by the insurer who is able to pay first. Then, make sure that you collect your deductible or rental bill from the insurer at fault.

IF INJURED, WHAT DO I DO FIRST?

Often injury at the outset is underestimated and sometimes not even perceived. Some physical conditions and symptoms will arise for an injury days or even months after the harmful event. Symptoms due to brain injury may never be perceived and may be detectable only after the conduct of batteries of electrical and written tests. It is important and crucial that any person who is concerned about the possibility of injury SEEK A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL OR HOSPITAL IMMEDIATELY to determine what, if any, injuries he has sustained. Any symptom regardless of how small or intermittent should be examined since English and American common law have always stressed the need for full compensation of any injury. This compensation should include not only lost wages but also the diminished ability to earn money, plus pain and suffering, anguish, and inconvenience sustained in the past and to be foreseeably suffered in the future.

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