Accident help in Miramar, FL

The Miramar Police Department covers crashes inside the city. On I-75 and Florida's Turnpike it's usually Florida Highway Patrol, and just over the southern line it may be a Miami-Dade agency instead. All reports go to FLHSMV. Get the case number and the responding agency's name before you leave, because those two facts save days later.

Broward County, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, with filings going to the Broward courts in Fort Lauderdale. If the crash happened across the county line, it's Miami-Dade and the Eleventh Circuit instead. Smaller claims go to county court and larger ones to circuit court. We are not a law firm, so which one your claim belongs in is a question for a licensed Florida attorney.

Florida law is the same statewide, so the two-year deadline and the $10,000 PIP don't change at the county line. What changes is where a suit is filed and which agency wrote the report. A crash on the job may also raise workers' compensation, which runs on a separate track with its own rules. Tell whoever reviews your file that you were working.

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.