Practice Areas

• Car and Motorcycle Accidents
• DUI and Criminal Defense
• Big Truck Accidents
• Medical Malpractice
• Serious Injuries:
  Slip and Fall | Dog Bites

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Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is Strict Liability and what does it mean?

A:

Strict Liability is a legal doctrine referring to absolute legal responsibility for an injury that can be imposed on the "wrongdoer" without proof of carelessness or fault.

As a Gainesville Dog Bite Lawyer, what is unique about Strict Liability is that a person does not have to be found careless, or at-fault, or negligent for something that happened that caused harm to another.   

In short it means that in certain types of cases, you can be held liable or responsible for something even if you did nothing wrong, there does not need to be proof of negligence when strict liability is applied in the case.

The bottom line is that in most cases there are defenses available to the claim of negligence as in accident or slip and fall cases.  However, where there is strict liability, there are no defenses.  

Strict Liability is most commonly seen in dog bite cases, and product liability lawsuits for defectively manufactured products.

In dog bites the owner of the dog is responsible or liable even if it was the first bite and the bite was provoked by the bitten person and the dog is restrained in a yard or home.

With defective products, the injured person has to prove that the product caused the injury, but does not have to prove how the manufacturer was careless.

Accident attorney, Jeffrey Meldon, strongly believes that public education is the first step in the prevention of and/or recovery from a serious accident. 

He and his Office take pride in their work, and in results they get for their clients.  

The Law Office of Jeffrey Meldon and Associates is a regional law firm that is located in Gainesville, Florida. They are personal injury lawyers, litigators and trial lawyers that have been working to get accident victims the justice they deserve for over 37 years throughout North Florida and all over Florida. Accidents involving a car crash, truck wreck, and motorcycle, bicycle, or pedestrian accidents, dog bites, slip and falls and medical malpractice are all included in their practice as accident attorneys.

They have been proudly representing injured victims in Gainesville, Ocala, Lake City, Inverness, Daytona Beach, Dunnellon, Palatka, The Villages, and the counties of Alachua, Marion, Columbia, Citrus, Volusia, Sumter, Putnam  and the entire North and Central Florida since 1971.

For more information on how they can help you, or any other question you may have, feel free to contact their office at 1 800 373 8000

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