{"id":425,"date":"2023-10-27T13:17:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T17:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.injuryattorneyfla.com\/blog\/?p=425"},"modified":"2023-12-09T13:18:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T18:18:15","slug":"what-do-the-criminal-courts-have-to-do-with-your-personal-injury-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.injuryattorneyfla.com\/blog\/what-do-the-criminal-courts-have-to-do-with-your-personal-injury-case\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do the Criminal Courts Have to Do With Your Personal Injury Case?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Drunk driving is a crime, but not every person who causes a car accident while under the influence of alcohol gets criminal penalties. The civil courts and criminal courts operate independently of each other, so a Miami<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.injuryattorneyfla.com\/car-accidents.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0car accident lawyer<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0can help you seek compensation if the drunk driver who caused your injuries was never convicted of DUI in criminal court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">How are Civil and Criminal Cases Different?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Most of the court cases you hear about on the news or see dramatized in movies are criminal cases, but most of the ones in which you or people you know well have been directly involved are civil cases. If you have ever gotten divorced, settled a deceased family member\u2019s estate, or faced a lawsuit about an unpaid debt, the legal proceedings took place in civil court. Personal injury lawsuits are civil cases. As in many civil matters, the plaintiff in a personal injury lawsuit is asking the court to order the defendant to pay monetary compensation to the plaintiff to compensate the plaintiff for financial losses caused by the defendant\u2019s negligence. The plaintiff can win the case if they can persuade that a preponderance of the evidence shows that the defendant\u2019s negligence directly caused the plaintiff\u2019s financial losses.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.injuryattorneyfla.com\/blog\/what-do-the-criminal-courts-have-to-do-with-your-personal-injury-case\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading What Do the Criminal Courts Have to Do With Your Personal Injury Case?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drunk driving is a crime, but not every person who causes a car accident while under the influence of alcohol gets criminal penalties. The civil courts and criminal courts operate independently of each other, so a Miami\u00a0car accident lawyer\u00a0can help you seek compensation if the drunk driver who caused your injuries was never convicted of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[46,34],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-accidents","category-personal-injury","tag-damages","tag-personal-injury"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What Do the Criminal Courts Have to Do With Your Personal Injury Case? &#8212; Miami Personal Injury Lawyer Blog &#8212; October 27, 2023<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Drunk driving is a crime, but not every person who causes a car accident while under the influence of alcohol gets criminal penalties. 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