Florida law requires that your injuries reach a certain level of severity before you can pursue a lawsuit for compensation. This generally means that the injury must result in permanent and significant loss of an important bodily function, injuries that are anticipated to be permanent, significant and permanent scarring or disfigurement or death. However, this does not mean that you cannot recover compensation for injuries that the doctors anticipate will heal—the threshold for what constitutes a “significant” injury leaves room for interpretation—for example, a broken bone that should heal with time is generally serious enough.