Expert perspectives on Personal Injury, community safety, and updates from your trusted Melbourne legal team.
Andrew Pickett Law handles pedestrian incidents and bicycle injury claims across Florida, and one pattern appears again and again: a crossing is “improved,” the public assumes it is now safe, and drivers still fail to stop. That failure may happen at a pedestrian hybrid beacon, a rapid-flashing crossing, or another upgraded treatment on a wide ...
Read MoreAndrew Pickett Law represents people seriously injured in Florida motor vehicle, pedestrian, and bicycle crashes, and school-zone cases carry a different kind of urgency. When a child is hurt, or when a driver barrels through a school corridor in Melbourne, Palm Bay, Cocoa, or Titusville, the facts tend to matter in a very compressed time ...
Read MoreAndrew Pickett Law regularly hears a version of the same statement after a bicycle crash: “You were supposed to get off and walk.” It is a confident line, and it is often repeated by drivers, witnesses, and insurance adjusters as though it ends the conversation. In many Florida cases, it does not. The law is ...
Read MoreIf you’ve been hit by an 18‑wheeler, you’ll notice something almost immediately: the case feels bigger. More calls. More paperwork. More urgency. Sometimes it happens while you’re still trying to get your bearings, literally and medically. Andrew Pickett Law sees a pattern in serious truck crash cases across Brevard County: insurers often move fast, not ...
Read MoreIn a serious Florida truck crash case, you may do everything right, get medical care, document the scene, report the claim, only to learn you’re dealing with a trucking company that doesn’t behave like a normal business defendant. The name on the door isn’t the name on the insurance. The DOT number connects to a ...
Read MoreAndrew Pickett Law represents injured riders and families across Florida, including Brevard County communities like Melbourne, Palm Bay, Cocoa, and Titusville. Electric bicycles are now part of daily traffic in ways that would have sounded unusual a few years ago. They are used for commuting, errands, school runs, and quick trips through beachside neighborhoods, apartment ...
Read MoreAfter a serious truck crash, you’ll hear a phrase that sounds like something from aviation: “the black box.” In trucking accident cases, “black box” is often shorthand for a whole ecosystem of electronic evidence: data about speed, braking, engine activity, hours-of-service logs, GPS locations, camera footage, and more. Some of it is stored on the ...
Read MoreAndrew Pickett, founder and lead trial attorney at Andrew Pickett Law, recently sat down with Kevin Daisy on the Managing Partners Podcast to talk about building a law firm that genuinely serves its clients. The conversation ranged from Andrew’s path into personal injury law, to the mindset shifts that helped him grow his practice in ...
Read MoreWhen a commercial vehicle is involved, the claim is rarely “Driver A hit Driver B.” It’s usually a chain of decisions made by multiple people and multiple companies, dispatch, scheduling, equipment maintenance, loading, supervision, and compliance. Andrew Pickett Law approaches commercial crash cases with one guiding assumption: the driver may be liable, but the driver is ...
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