Andrew Pickett Law represents individuals and families injured in serious motorcycle accidents in Melbourne, Florida and throughout surrounding Space Coast communities in Brevard County. Motorcycle crashes often cause severe injuries due to the lack of protection riders have compared to other vehicles. Our experienced Melbourne motorcycle accident lawyers help injured riders pursue compensation for medical bills, lost income, rehabilitation costs, and other damages following serious crashes.
Motorcycle Accident Lawyers Serving Melbourne, Florida
Motorcycle accidents occur throughout Melbourne and Brevard County, particularly along busy roadways such as US-1, Wickham Road, Eau Gallie Boulevard, Babcock Street, Palm Bay Road, and Interstate 95. These routes carry heavy daily traffic and often involve situations where drivers fail to see or yield to motorcycles.
At Andrew Pickett Law, our legal team represents riders injured in collisions involving passenger vehicles, commercial trucks, and other negligent drivers. Motorcycle accidents frequently occur when motorists change lanes without checking blind spots, make unsafe left turns, or drive while distracted. Our firm investigates the circumstances of each crash and works to hold negligent drivers accountable.
Compensation Available After a Motorcycle Crash
Motorcycle accident victims often suffer catastrophic injuries requiring extensive medical treatment and long-term rehabilitation. Our Melbourne injury attorneys help injured riders pursue compensation for:
- Emergency medical treatment and hospitalization
- Ongoing medical care and rehabilitation
- Lost wages and reduced earning capacity
- Pain and suffering
- Permanent disability or catastrophic injuries
- Wrongful death damages for families who have lost loved ones
Because motorcycle accident claims often involve disputes over liability or unfair stereotypes about riders, having an experienced attorney can help ensure that insurance companies evaluate the case based on the actual facts of the accident.
Why Clients Choose Andrew Pickett Law
- No legal fees unless we recover compensation
- Direct communication with an experienced motorcycle accident attorney
- Strong advocacy against insurance companies and negligent drivers
- Local representation serving Melbourne and Brevard County
Critical Deadline: Florida’s Two-Year Negligence Law
If you are recovering from a motorcycle crash, you must act decisively. Under Florida law (House Bill 837), the statute of limitations for personal injury claims based on negligence is two years from the exact date of the accident.
Waiting to secure legal representation can cripple your claim. Within months, road debris is swept away, damaged bikes are repaired or sold for salvage, and witness recollections fade. Even when a crash seems minor at the scene, internal or cognitive injuries can take weeks to surface. To protect your financial security, call a lawyer as soon as you are medically stable.
Frequently Asked Questions About Motorcycle Accident Claims
What should I do after a motorcycle accident in Melbourne?
After a motorcycle accident in Melbourne, you should seek medical attention immediately, report the crash to law enforcement, and document the scene if possible. Because serious injuries are common in motorcycle crashes, it is important to consult with an attorney before discussing the accident with insurance companies.
Who is responsible for a motorcycle accident?
Liability for a motorcycle accident often depends on the actions of other drivers involved in the crash. Many accidents occur when motorists fail to yield to motorcycles, make unsafe turns, or drive while distracted. An investigation can help determine which party is legally responsible for the collision.
What compensation can motorcycle accident victims recover?
Victims injured in motorcycle accidents may recover compensation for medical expenses, lost income, pain and suffering, rehabilitation costs, and other damages depending on the circumstances of the crash.
Riders in Melbourne: the rules that work for you, and against you
Does no-fault insurance apply to motorcycles?
Florida’s no-fault rules apply to vehicles with four or more wheels.1 A motorcycle has two, so no motorcyclist is required to carry no-fault medical coverage, and most do not have it.
Here is the part that rarely makes it onto a page. The permanent-injury requirement — the rule that stops most injured Florida drivers claiming for pain and suffering — exists as the price of being inside that system. It is tied to it. A motorcyclist hurt by a negligent driver is generally not required to prove a permanent injury before claiming for pain, suffering and loss of enjoyment of life.2
The same impact, the same injuries, in a car and on a bike, can produce two different answers to “can you claim for what this did to you.” On the bike, the answer is more often yes.
Who pays my hospital bill if I have no no-fault coverage?
That is the other side of it, and it arrives first.
A driver injured in a car has $10,000 standing between them and the emergency room bill, without anyone deciding whose fault it was. You have nothing. No first payer, no fourteen-day rule, no automatic anything. The trauma bill from Holmes Regional arrives with your name on it while the question of fault is still months from being answered, and it is a large bill because trauma care is billed at full rates.
What actually helps, in order: use your health insurance, even though someone else caused this — it pays a negotiated rate rather than the sticker price and it stops the debt landing on you. Check whether you bought medical payments coverage on the bike; many riders have it and forget. And if you have no health insurance, there are routes to treatment that do not start with signing away part of your settlement.
You should hear this in week one, not in month three when the account has gone to collections.
I was not wearing a helmet. Can that be used against me?
Florida allows a rider over 21 to ride without a helmet if they are covered by an insurance policy providing at least $10,000 in medical benefits for injuries suffered while riding. Eye protection is required either way, at any age.3
Riding legally without a helmet does not make the argument go away. The other side may well raise it — not to say you caused the accident, but to say the head injury would have been less severe. That is a different argument, and it should be named precisely, because it only reaches the injuries a helmet would have affected. It has nothing to say about a broken leg, a shoulder, or who ran the light.
Cyclists have a statute that forbids this argument. Motorcyclists do not. Anyone telling you it cannot be raised is thinking of the wrong two wheels.
What do drivers’ insurers claim about motorcyclists?
Motorcycle claims attract blame-shifting more than any other, and Florida’s rule stops paying entirely once your share passes half. The recurring arguments, and what answers them:
- “You were speeding.” Frequently asserted from the damage rather than measured. Scene evidence, the other vehicle’s own recorded data and the geometry of the impact are what settle it, and they can be gone within weeks if no one asks for them.
- “I didn’t see him.” This is closer to an admission than to a defence. A driver turning across traffic has to yield to what is there, and not having looked properly is the failure rather than the excuse.
- “He was lane splitting.” Be accurate here: riding between lanes of traffic is not permitted in Florida, so if it happened it matters. If it did not happen, do not let it be assumed from a final resting position.
- “He was wearing dark clothing.” Relevant only if it actually made you hard to see at that moment. Headlamps are on during daylight on a modern motorcycle.
References
- Fla. Stat. § 627.732(3) — “motor vehicle” means a self-propelled vehicle with four or more wheels designed and required to be licensed for use on the highways of this state
- Fla. Stat. § 627.737(2) — the threshold on non-economic damages applies to a defendant with security in effect under §§ 627.730–627.7405, and to a plaintiff within the no-fault system; the limitation does not reach a claimant who is not required to carry such coverage. Fla. Stat. § 627.733(1) — the security requirement applies to owners of motor vehicles as defined in § 627.732(3)
- Fla. Stat. § 316.211 — protective headgear required under 21; a rider over 21 may ride without it if covered by an insurance policy providing at least $10,000 in medical benefits for injuries incurred as a result of a crash while operating or riding on a motorcycle; eye-protective device required regardless of age
Other Injury Cases We Take On
In addition to representing victims of motorcycle accidents, Andrew Pickett Law handles many other types of accident and injury cases throughout Melbourne and Brevard County, including:
- Car Accident Lawyers
- Truck Accident Lawyers
- Uber & Lyft Accident Lawyers
- Slip and Fall Lawyers
- Dog Bite Injury Lawyers
- Boating Accident Lawyers
- Wrongful Death Lawyers
- Catastrophic Injury Lawyers
Areas and Zip Codes Served From Our Melbourne Office
- 32901 – Downtown Melbourne / Crane Creek
- 32904 – West Melbourne
- 32934 – Wickham Park / North Melbourne
- 32935 – Eau Gallie / Croton Road Corridor
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