Personal Injury Protection Blog Category

What Is Personal Injury Protection?

Were you recently injured in an accident? If so, you may need a special kind of insurance protection to help you pay your bills. This is known as personal injury protection (PIP). This is a...

A Miami Personal Injury Attorney Explains Florida’s No-Fault Law

In the case of a Miami car accident, no-fault insurance laws are in effect, but what does this mean for you? Shamis & Gentile, P.A., Miami Personal Injury Attorney take a look at what no-fault...

If You’ve Been in Any of These Situations, a Car Accident Lawyer Can Help

Have you recently been injured in a car accident? If you were at not fault for the accident, there is no reason you should have to face all of the accompanying legal repercussions. And there...

Hiring a Miami Personal Injury Protection (PIP) Lawyer

Medical providers, such as chiropractors, are routinely being taken advantage of by their patients’ personal injury protection (PIP) insurers (State Farm, Progressive, Geico and USAA). For instance, many insurance companies are underpaying, paying incorrectly, or...

Miami Car Accident Lawyers: Claim Vs. Lawsuit

Imagine you were hurt in a car accident caused by someone else. You are injured, cannot work, you’re your medical bills are piling up. What do you do? Miami Car Accident Lawyers (Shamis & Gentile,...

Know Your Rights in a UBER or Lyft Accident: Florida Personal Injury Protection

Know Your Rights in a UBER or Lyft Accident: Florida Personal Injury Protection Uber & Lyft are two convenient, inexpensive, and safe transportation services. They allow you to hire a private driver from your smartphone...

Steps for Getting your Medical Bills Paid After a Car Accident: Miami PIP

If someone’s negligence caused your injury in a Miami car accident, let Shamis & Gentile, P.A. help you get your medical bills paid. If you are covered by Personal Injury Protection (PIP), it pays benefits...

You may be entitled to compensation: Stryker Hip Recall and DePuy Hip Recall

Serving Victims of Dangerous Medical Products in Miami Thousands of lawsuits have been filed against most of the major hip implant manufacturers in the last few years. There has been an epidemic of early failures...

Does Personal Injury Protection benefits cover your medical bills if you are in an UBER accident?

Passengers in an UBER vehicle may get PIP From his/her own PIP Passengers most likely will qualify for PIP, through their OWN insurance! In the event a passenger does not have car insurance, the next...

What is Personal Injury Protection (PIP) ?

Personal Injury Protection (PIP) In Florida, Personal Injury Protection (PIP) is automobile insurance coverage that allows people to recover from an auto insurance company to which they are an insured for the economic loss (e.g....

Misconstrued Perception of Personal Injury Protection benefits

Often articles such as these really provide a misconstrued perception of personal injury protection benefits (or “PIP”). Insurance companies perpetuate this idea that PIP is rife with fraud and that the elimination of PIP would...

Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction (MPPR) for Selected Therapy Services

Miami PIP Attorneys - Personal Injury Protection Lawyers Did you know that pursuant to the new 2013 PIP statute certain insurance companies feel entitled to utilize MPPR reductions? Each individual insurance contract allows and disallows...