Car Accidents in Fort Lauderdale, FL

Fort Lauderdale Police work crashes inside the city. The Broward Sheriff's Office covers unincorporated areas and several nearby cities, and Florida Highway Patrol usually takes I-95 and I-595. Everything is filed with FLHSMV, so you can request the report through the state crash portal or from the agency that responded, and having the case number from the scene makes that call much shorter.

The Broward County Courthouse downtown, near the New River, in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit. Smaller civil claims go to county court, larger ones to circuit court. The line is about the amount, not the injury. We are not a law firm, so we can't tell you where your claim falls, but an attorney who files in Broward will know in one conversation.

The road you were on decides who writes the report, and near Port Everglades and the airport that can be city police, the sheriff's office, or Florida Highway Patrol on the ramps. For a commercial vehicle, there may be a company policy sitting behind the driver's own. None of that changes your PIP, which pays the first medical bills either way. It does change how many insurers end up on the file.

In Florida, the deadline is generally 2 years from the date of the accident. Reduced from 4 to 2 years by HB 837 (2023). Wrongful death 2 years. Medical 2 years. Deadlines are strict — the sooner you act, the more options you have.