Although there have been many Florida appellate and Supreme Court cases recognizing the right to recover diminished value for your vehicle, insurance companies will not offer that information to you. In fact it has been my experience with my clients that when they present the diminished value claims themselves to the insurance companies, the insurance adjuster typically asks the following question, “well sir was your car properly repaired and if so there’s no diminished value.” Which, is just a complete misstatement of the law.
Without actually hiring an attorney to represent you, you have no actual leverage to deal with the insurance adjuster or the insurance company. By retaining an attorney to represent you in your diminished value claim you go from a position of having no leverage to a position of strength and the reason that is is because we have the ability to file a lawsuit if necessary and push this to trial.