Wrongful Death in Jacksonville, FL

Depends who worked it. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office covers police work across all of Duval County, so most crashes on city streets are theirs. Florida Highway Patrol usually takes I-95, I-10, and the 295 beltway. Reports go to FLHSMV either way, and you can request yours through the state crash portal or from the agency that wrote it, so get a case number before you leave the scene.

Duval County, at the courthouse downtown. The trial court is the Fourth Judicial Circuit. County court takes the smaller civil claims and circuit court takes the larger ones, and where your claim lands depends on what it's worth, which is not something we can tell you, because we are not a law firm and nothing here is legal advice.

The claim still starts with your own PIP, the same $10,000 as anyone else. What changes is who else may be involved. Trucks running to and from JAXPORT and the Blount Island terminals are often owned by one company, driven by an employee of another, and insured through a third, which is a lot of paperwork before anyone talks about your injuries. An attorney sorts that out. We don't.

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.