Worried About Legal Fees? A Workers’ Comp Claim in Florida Costs Nothing Upfront

One of the reasons that people who get injured at work don’t call an attorney or don’t hire an attorney is they think that they have to pay a lot of money to hire the attorney, and that’s not the case at all. Almost all workers’ comp attorneys do not—get—need any money to start your case, like… We don’t ask for a retainer agreement; we don’t need you to put a couple thousand dollars to hire us. We don’t send any bills to say, “Hey, we have this many hours and you owe us this amount for this month.” That’s not how workers’ comp attorneys work. We work on a complete contingency basis, which means that we only get paid when we settle the case. We get paid a percentage of the settlement, and usually that percentage is 25%—that’s the maximum that most attorneys charge. And sometimes, we can charge less than 25% if we can get the employer or the insurance company to pay some of the fees based on the number of hours we spent, but our clients never pay anything out of their pocket. So, if you’re afraid that, “I don’t have any money to hire an attorney,” then that’s—you should not worry about that, you should call the attorney, because every workers’ comp attorney is going to tell you they don’t need any money from you. They don’t—they’re not going to—they don’t require a retainer; they don’t require you to send them money every month or every year to keep the case open. So, I don’t want people to worry about, “Well, what if I don’t have any money?” because that doesn’t exist in workers’ comp—if you have a case, you can get an attorney for free, and you’re not going to pay anything out of your pocket, okay?