Car accident attorneys who stand with you.
After a serious car accident, life can feel upside down. In an instant, you're dealing with injuries, mounting medical bills, insurance calls, and a long list of unanswered questions.
At Gold & Gold, P.A., we guide you through it all with compassion, clarity, and a commitment to getting the justice you deserve. For over forty years, our trial team has helped people navigate the aftermath of collisions involving cars, motorcycles, commercial trucks, bicycles, and pedestrians, in Florida and New York. Whether you're facing physical pain, emotional trauma, or financial pressure, you shouldn't have to carry the burden alone. We handle the fight while you focus on healing.
Why legal support matters after a crash.
When you're recovering from an accident, the last thing you should worry about is legal red tape. Insurance companies have teams of adjusters and lawyers working immediately to limit what they pay; you need someone doing the same on your side.
Protecting your rights before evidence disappears
Handling all communication with insurance companies and defense teams
Gathering and preserving critical scene, vehicle, and medical evidence
Determining fault, including shared liability across multiple parties
Calculating the full cost of your injury, not just today's bills
Taking your case to trial when that's what justice requires
What Florida's no-fault insurance means for you.
Required coverage, but sharply limited.
Florida drivers must carry Personal Injury Protection, which covers a portion of your medical bills and lost wages regardless of who caused the crash. But PIP is capped at $10,000, and in serious or permanent injury cases, that ceiling is reached quickly. If your injuries cross the serious injury threshold, you may step outside the no-fault system entirely and pursue the at-fault driver for full economic and non-economic damages. Our attorneys know exactly when that threshold is met, and how to prove it.
The success of your case starts with a thorough investigation.
We take deliberate steps to make sure nothing gets overlooked, from the moment of impact through a lifetime of projected need:
Preserving evidence from the scene
Photographs, debris, black-box vehicle data, surveillance footage, and physical evidence, secured before defendants and insurers control the record.
Collecting every record
Medical providers, police reports, repair facilities, commercial carrier logs, and electronic control module data, the documentary backbone of a serious claim.
Working with accident-reconstruction experts
Speed, sight lines, mechanical failure, driver behavior, and witness accounts—we retain the specialists who can establish exactly what happened and put the fault where it belongs.
Calculating the full cost of your injury
Future surgeries, rehabilitation, lost earning capacity, home modifications, and the cost of years of ongoing care, we do not leave future damages to guesswork.
Depending on your injuries, your claim may include.
- Past and future medical expenses
- Lost wages and destroyed earning capacity
- Vehicle repair or replacement
- Long-term rehabilitation and home care
- Home and vehicle modifications
- Pain and suffering
- Emotional distress and psychological harm
- Permanent disfigurement or disability
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Loss of consortium for affected family members
In drunk-driving and other reckless-conduct cases involving drivers under the influence, commercial carriers with hours-of-service violations, or employers who ignored safety warnings, we also pursue punitive damages designed to punish the defendant and deter future harm.
Riders and trucking victims face a different fight.
Motorcyclists hit the pavement with nothing between them and the road. The injuries—road rash, spinal trauma, TBI, amputations—can be catastrophic, and insurers often try to blame the rider regardless of what the evidence shows. We know that playbook, and we counter it.
Commercial trucking cases carry an entirely different layer of complexity: federal FMCSA regulations, driver qualification files, Hours of Service logs, electronic control module data, cargo-securement standards, and the fleet carrier's own safety record. We subpoena all of it, and we try these cases in front of juries who understand what a 40-ton truck does at highway speed.
Florida's statute of limitations for motor-vehicle claims.
Victims and surviving family members generally have two years from the date of the crash to file a lawsuit under Florida law. That window closes faster than most people expect, especially when you're focused on recovery. Commercial trucking defendants begin preserving their own evidence immediately. Our team moves on the same timeline.
Time is the one thing you cannot recover.
Physical evidence degrades. Surveillance footage gets overwritten. ECM data gets purged. The defendants and their insurers begin building their defense on day one; you need a team doing the same.
The sooner you reach out, the sooner we can secure the evidence, retain the experts, and begin building the record your case deserves. Consultations are free, available around the clock, and if we take your case, you owe us nothing unless we win.
A record built case by case.
A selection of verdicts and settlements from this area of our practice. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome, every case is decided on its own facts.