Titusville Personal Injury Lawyers
Andrew Pickett represents people who were hurt by someone else’s carelessness in Titusville and north Brevard County. The office is on South Palm Avenue, across the street from the Historic Titusville Courthouse. There is no charge to talk about what happened to you, and no fee unless money is recovered. Call, or tell us what happened and we will call you.
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Personal Injury Cases We Handle in Titusville
Every one of these is handled from the Titusville office. If what happened to you is not on the list, it is still worth a call. The list is what comes up most often here, not the limit of what a personal injury claim covers.
- Car Accident Lawyers
- Truck Accident Lawyers
- Motorcycle Accident Lawyers
- Uber & Lyft Accident Lawyers
- Slip and Fall Lawyers
- Wrongful Death Lawyers
- Dog Bite Lawyers
- Boating Accident Lawyers
- Pedestrian Accident Lawyers
- Bicycle Accident Lawyers
- Workers’ Compensation Attorneys
- Sexual Abuse Lawyers
- Golf Cart Accident Lawyers
- Scooter Accident Lawyers
- Airbnb Injury Lawyers
What Being Hurt in North Brevard Actually Changes
Almost everything written about injury claims is written for the whole state. Some of it stops being true a few miles from here.
Where your case is heard depends on where the other side lives. In October 2025 the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit created a North Jurisdiction at the Historic Titusville Courthouse on South Palm Avenue. County civil cases — those worth $50,000 or less — are assigned there by the defendant’s ZIP code, not yours, and not by where you were hurt. If the person who injured you lives in Titusville or Mims, your case is heard in this building. Above $50,000 it is heard at the Moore Justice Center in Viera, about thirty miles south.
Parrish Medical Center is a government body. It is run by the North Brevard County Hospital District, and its own audited accounts state that it relies on sovereign immunity. That places a $200,000 limit on a claim arising from care there, and requires written notice before a suit can be filed. The same injury in a private hospital carries neither. Very few people here know that about their own hospital.
There is no trauma center in Titusville. Anyone badly hurt is taken to Holmes Regional in Melbourne, the only Level II trauma center in Brevard County. Your records, your bills and your treating doctors then sit in a different city from where you were hurt and from the courthouse.
US-1, Cheney Highway, Columbia Boulevard and Garden Street belong to the state, not the city. When the road itself is part of what went wrong, that is a claim against the Florida Department of Transportation, and it is made differently from a claim against Titusville or Brevard County.
Why Clients Choose Andrew Pickett Law
Andrew started out as a prosecutor at the State Attorney’s Office for the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit — the circuit whose courthouse stands across the street from this office. He handled thousands of cases there, from misdemeanors to serious felonies, and it is where he learned to try a case in front of a Brevard County jury.
Over the last ten years he has tried more than fifty jury trials to verdict. That matters for an unglamorous reason. Insurers keep track of which lawyers actually try cases and which ones settle everything, and that tends to show up in what they offer long before anything is filed.
He chairs the Judicial Nominating Commission for this circuit and has served as president of the Brevard County Bar Association. He has lived in Brevard County since 1987 and went to high school here.
And he builds the case himself.
According to Avvo, around a dozen personal injury lawyers serve Titusville. Most people choosing between them are doing it from a website and a review count, in the worst week of their year. Ask any of them the same questions: who builds the case, who picks up the phone at week six, and whether the fee changes if a lawsuit gets filed. You should come away with names and numbers rather than adjectives.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Personal Injury Claims
Who will actually be working on my case?
Andrew builds the case and supervises it.
Building it is the part that decides what your case becomes. Which records we go after and when. Which doctors we need to hear from. What we can prove about what happened. Whether the file is ready to settle or ready for a fight. He does that himself.
Ask this question at every firm you talk to. They all say you will work with an attorney. Ask them who does the work, and ask who picks up the phone when you have a question. You should come away with names.
What if the claim is against the hospital, the city, or the state?
These are different from a claim against another driver, a shop, or any other private business, in ways that matter early.
Florida allows claims against its own government bodies, but on its own terms. Damages are limited to $200,000 for one person and $300,000 for one incident. Anything above that can only be paid if the Legislature passes a bill for it, which is rare and slow. A bill to raise those limits passed both chambers this year and was vetoed on 30 June 2026, so the figures are unchanged.
Written notice has to be given before a suit is filed. Who receives it depends on who you are claiming against. A claim against the City of Titusville goes to the city and a claim against Brevard County goes to the county, while a claim against a state agency such as the Department of Transportation goes both to that agency and to the Department of Financial Services in Tallahassee. This is the one people miss, and US-1, Cheney Highway, Columbia Boulevard and Garden Street are all state roads.
Parrish Medical Center sits inside all of this. It is operated by the North Brevard County Hospital District, a taxing district, and its published accounts say it relies on sovereign immunity. So a claim arising from care at the town’s only hospital is capped and requires notice, while the identical claim against a private hospital thirty miles away is not.
We will tell you plainly if that is the situation you are in, including when the cap means a case is worth less than the injury deserves. You are better off hearing it in the first week than in the eighteenth month.
Deadlines here are shorter than most people assume, and they are not the same for every kind of claim. If a government body might be involved, that is a reason to ask sooner rather than later.
Can't I just deal with the insurance company on my own?
Sometimes you can. If nobody was hurt, nobody is arguing about who caused it, and all that is left is repairing or replacing something — a damaged car, a broken fence — you probably do not need a lawyer for that, and a good firm will tell you so.
What matters is not the size of the number, but whether anything is genuinely in dispute and whether anyone yet knows how the injury will end up.
It is worth talking to a lawyer before you handle it yourself if any of the following apply:
- You are still treating, or your doctors do not yet know where you will end up.
- Fault is contested, or you are being told some of it was yours.
- Whoever is responsible has no insurance, or not enough of it — an uninsured driver, a business, a property owner.
- A government body might be involved — the city, the county, a state road, or Parrish.
- You have been asked for a recorded statement.
- An offer arrived before you finished treating.
Whichever way you go, the adjuster is not neutral and is not your adviser. Their job is to work out what your claim is going to cost their company. That does not make them dishonest; it makes them the other side of it.
Whatever you decide, do not agree to a recorded statement while you still do not know how badly you are hurt, and do not sign a release until you understand what it closes off — a release usually ends the claim for good, including for an injury that turns out worse later.
How a claim actually works, start to finish
The first two weeks
Get seen early, and keep the record unbroken. Whether you were hurt in a crash, in a fall on someone else’s property, or by any other kind of negligence, the gap between the injury and your first medical record is the thing an insurer will point at later. People who feel fine on the day and stiffen up a fortnight later hand the other side an argument that the injury came from something else. What counts is that the treatment starts, not how quickly it works.
If your injury came from a motor vehicle crash there is also a hard deadline. Florida’s no-fault coverage — the part of your own policy that pays first, whoever was at fault — pays no medical benefits at all unless your care starts inside fourteen days, and people lose that coverage entirely by waiting. More on car accident claims.
That coverage is smaller than it sounds. The headline figure is $10,000, but it pays 80 percent of medical bills and 60 percent of lost wages, up to that total. The remainder is yours unless something else covers it. Knowing that early changes which treatment you agree to and in what order.
Be careful about a recorded statement. The insurer on the other side — the at-fault driver’s carrier, a property owner’s liability insurer, a hospital’s malpractice carrier — will ask for one, often within days, often warmly. You are not required to give it. What you say while you are medicated, exhausted, and unsure how badly you are hurt is quoted back later with none of that context attached. Say you will call back.
Weeks two to twelve
Treatment carries on and the file is built underneath it. Records requested, wages documented, the report obtained, witnesses found while they still remember. Almost nothing visible happens in this stretch, which is when most people assume nothing is happening. The claim cannot be valued until your doctors know where you are going to end up.
If you have no health insurance, treatment is still possible. Providers will sometimes agree to treat now and be paid out of the recovery later. It is a real arrangement with real trade-offs, and it is worth asking about rather than going without care.
Month three onward
A demand goes out. An adjuster values it against what their company expects to pay, not against what happened to you. Their first number is an opening position. Most claims settle in this phase. A lawsuit is what happens when their number and what the claim should actually pay are too far apart.
What actually reaches you
This is the question people are most reluctant to ask out loud, so here it is answered without being asked.
Money comes off a settlement in an order, and the order matters more than any single percentage.
- The fee comes out of the recovery. You pay nothing if there is no recovery.
- Costs are separate from the fee. Filing fees, medical records, expert reports, court reporters. These also come out of the recovery.
- Your agreement should say in writing whether costs come out before or after the fee is calculated. Those two orderings produce different numbers from the same settlement. Ask about it before you sign — here, or anywhere else.
- Liens are paid from your share. Health insurers, hospitals and some government programs can have a right to be repaid out of what you recover. Some can be negotiated down. That negotiation is real work and it changes your number.
At the end you are entitled to a written statement showing what came in, what was paid and to whom, and how your figure was arrived at. That is not a courtesy. If it does not arrive, ask for it.
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Kev Albaugh
8 days ago
After being in a serious car accident, I hired Andrew Pickett and his team in Melbourne to handle my case. From day one, Mr. Pickett treated me with genuine respect, compassion, and professionalism. He took the stress completely off my shoulders so I could focus on recovering. I would also like to recognize Lindsay, Jeremy, Vonda, and Caroline for always keeping me updated throughout the entire process and addressing any questions or concerns I may have had. Thanks to Andrews incredible expertise and relentless advocacy, he secured a phenomenal outcome that exceeded all of my expectations. If you are looking for an honest, hardworking personal injury attorney on the Space Coast who delivers real results, look no further than Andrew Pickett Law. They are the best in the business.
Robbi Sandkulla
10 days ago
When my fiancé was in a serious car accident, we were completely overwhelmed, but Andrew Pickett and his team were an absolute blessing. They stepped in immediately, handled every detail with the insurance companies, and kept us updated every step of the way. Seeing how much stress they lifted off his shoulders was a huge relief. Andrew fought hard and won an amazing outcome for his case. We are so incredibly grateful for this firm's dedication and highly recommend them!
Teresa Wyatt
22 days ago
The Team at Andrew Pickett has been great, so far. Extremely quick, and thorough. Wasted no time, in getting my case started.
Alondra “Alo” Ruiz
1 month ago
Very friendly and helpful. Love that they give back to the community.
Angela Oravits
1 month ago
We truley appreciate the kindness and helping us and many with a back pack. It was great to meet Andrew and Thank him for his kindness.
Jae is bae
1 month ago
That was so sweet of them, giving out free backpacks and supplies for the kids and making it easier for the parents to come up and just grab the backpacks and go to get home to their children. Love this event for people. I hope to see them next year as well.
K SN
1 month ago
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I cannot say enough good things about my experience with Phindile at Andrew Pickett Law. From the moment she answered the phone, she was kind, compassionate, and truly listened to everything I had to say. After spending almost 16 months with another law firm where I felt completely ghosted and struggled with a lack of communication, I was feeling frustrated and unheard. Phindile spent nearly an hour on the phone with me, patiently listening to my concerns, answering my questions, and walking me through the process. She made me feel like my case actually mattered. In that one phone call, I received more communication, care, and reassurance than I had during my entire 16 months with my previous firm. Her professionalism, empathy, and willingness to help made such a stressful situation feel so much easier. If the rest of the team is anything like Phindile, I know I’m in good hands. Thank you for treating me with kindness and making me feel heard. I truly appreciate everything you’ve done.
marianne mattern
1 month ago
Andrew was a very nice person. Unfortunately they did not have shade for the people in the pre register line. Which left people with disabilities and non disabled left in the sun. They did provide little bottles of sunscreen and promo hand fans. Water was provided. Thank you for the kindness.
Rachael Brown
1 month ago
Thanks for your gracious contribution to our community
Jeremiah's Ice of West Melbourne
1 month ago
It was an absolute pleasure to join you this year in project backpack! What a great give-back for our local youth, it was an incredibly smooth event. Great team work!!
Nicole Popun
1 month ago
Thank you for giving back to the community. God bless your family.
Andrew Arnabat
1 month ago
My wife and I got hit with a car accident and the insurance chaos that followed. Tiffany Whitehouse and the Andrew Pickett Law team stepped up. Tiffany was always on the ball and went the extra mile. Vonda, Lindsey, Lauren, and Caroline really cared. They handled everything so we didn’t have to, moved fast, and got us the max they could. No stress. Just results
Joshua Sund
1 month ago
My daughter really enjoyed her backpack everything was very well organized
Audra Forbes
1 month ago
Amazing turnout! Everyone was so helpful, handing out waterbottlesand fans to stave off the scorching heat. I'm glad I stopped by.
Latisha Watkins
2 months ago
It was a pleasure to volunteer with Andrew Pickett Law Firm and his incredible team. I can’t say enough about how amazing his team communicated with me. A wonderful community event. The families that his firm helped at this year’s Back-to-School event was such a rewarding experience. The team was well-organized, welcoming, and made it so easy for me as a volunteer to step right in and make a meaningful impact. Watching the kids get excited about their new backpacks filled with supplies and seeing parents feel supported as the school year begins was the best part of the day. It’s amazing what can happen when a community comes together with a shared goal. I’m so grateful to have been a part of it and definitely look forward to helping out again in the future.
Rahmeik Venable
2 months ago
Wow, any person willing to hold an event to give back is an A1 person to me, the staff was absolutely amazing in organizing, and maintaining a great atmosphere for us all. I'll be looking forward to attending another community event.
Jennifer Cleveland
2 months ago
Lauren and her team are the best! Thank you for all the help, I 10/10 recommended them!
Diondra Harrison
2 months ago
It was a pleasure meeting Mr. Pickett and everyone at the law firm. From the moment I arrived, I was welcomed with kindness, professionalism, and genuine hospitality. Mr. Pickett took the time to personally greet me, listen attentively, and make me feel valued. What impressed me most was his commitment to giving back to the community, especially through initiatives that support local youth, such as the annual back-to-school backpack drive. It’s inspiring to see a law firm that not only provides excellent service but also makes a meaningful impact beyond the office. I am truly grateful to have had the opportunity to meet Mr. Pickett and his incredible team. Thank you all for your dedication, generosity, and the positive difference you continue to make in the community. I highly recommend this firm to anyone looking for a team that genuinely cares.
Ivanova Rodriguez
2 months ago
Great experience, kindness people
andrew rafidi
2 months ago
Project Backpack was a major success! Wonderful community outreach event! Emma Vinson is incredibly kind and helpful!
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