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Last Entry: November 09, 2009 at 14:07:46

Pedestrians More Likely to Die in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale

Posted on November 09, 2009
As Florida Lawyers handling personal injury and wrongful death cases, we've learned of yet another report which demonstrates how dangerous the roadways are for pedestrians in South Florida. According to a recent report, the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area achieved the dubious honor of being named one of the nation's most dangerous areas for pedestrians...

Trip and Falls Cause Most Injuries to Elderly

Posted on November 08, 2009
According to a recent study, more than a third of all people over the age of sixty five fall each year. Unfortunately, more than one fall in 10 results in a serious injury, like a fractured hip. As Florida Lawyers, we too often seen the devistating affects such injuries from such trip and falls at stores, parking lot and shopping centers, have on our older clients...

Pedestrians and Bike Riders Involved in Double the Accidents with Hybrid Cars

Posted on September 30, 2009
In the desire to go "Green," the steady increase in hybrid cars on the road are causing a drastic increase in the number of car accidents with pedestrians and bicycle riders. According to a recently released report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, due to the lack of noise generated from hybrid engines, pedestrians and cyclists are less likely to hear such vehicles that were turning, slowing or backing up...

Students Injured in Accidents On Way to School in Broward County

Posted on September 29, 2009
Today was a particularly dangerous day for students going to school in Broward County. Two students walking to school were injured in separate accidents, one with a car and another with a bus. The accidents happened in Hollywood and Oakland Park. In the Hollywood car accident, police say a driver disregarded an extended school bus stop sign and struck a boy trying to get on the bus...

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Florida Highway Patrol Steps-Up Red Light Patrols to Prevent Car Accidents

Posted on August 21, 2009
The Florida Highway Patrol announced the results of their recent efforts to further prevent deadly car accidents, by increasing enforcement at intersections by citing drivers who fail to stop at red lights. The Florida campaign was done in conjunction with the National Stop On Red Week effort to monitor drivers who disregard red traffic signals...

Florida Drivers Who Cause Multiple Car Accidents Must Retake Tests

Posted on July 30, 2009
As Florida Attorneys representing victims of car accidents who suffer personal injuries in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, we applaud the Florida Legislature for enacting a new law which mandates that any driver who is convicted of three car accident related moving violations over a three-year time frame will have to pass a driving test, just like when they first received their license...

Florida Highway Patrol Cracks Down To Prevent Car Accidents

Posted on July 29, 2009
As Florida Lawyers representing victims who suffer personal injuries from car accidents, in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and Palm each, we are certainly glad to hear that the Florida Highway Patrol is stepping up its efforts to stop aggressive drivers. This week the Florida Highway Patrol is increasing the number of troopers along the Turnpike and Interstates hoping to reduce car accidents by stopping aggressive drivers...

Palm Beach Car Accident Results in Injuries to Road Worker

Posted on June 20, 2009
As Florida Lawyers specializing in car accidents in Palm Beach County, we are continually amazed at the carelessness of drivers as they disregard roadside warnings, and hit and injure roadway workers. Today, a roadside construction worker was struck by a truck and suffered serious personal injuries, while he worked along a road in Palm Springs...

Florida Enacts Updated Seat-belt Law to Save Lives

Posted on May 08, 2009
As Florida personal injury and car accident attorneys practicing in Ft. Lauderdale, we applaud the Florida Legislature for enacting a new seat-belt law, which will allow police officers to ticket drivers solely because they are not wearing seat-belts...

Florida Highway Patrol Crack Down Hopes to Prevent Motorcycle Accidents

Posted on May 07, 2009
As personal injury attorneys practicing in Broward County, we commend the Florida Highway Patrol and Broward County Sheriff's Office on their upcoming crackdown on aggressive motorcyclists. Too often, the reckless and aggressive driving of motorcyclists cause accidents resulting in injuries and wrongful death...

Car Accident Involving Miami Dade Police Officer Results in Wrongful Death of Mother

Posted on March 01, 2009

Cruise Ship Excursion in Dominica Ends in Bus Accident

Posted on February 26, 2009
As Florida Attorneys we are always sorry to hear about tourists who are injured in bus and car accidents caused cruise line tour operators in foreign countries. Unfortunately, another preventable accident happened this week, when fourteen passenger traveling on the Celebrity Cruise Lines Summit, were injured, many critically, when the tour bus type vehicle they were in, crashed outside of Roseau, Dominica's capital...

Suspended Florida Drivers Cause Too Many Car Accidents

Posted on February 20, 2009
As Florida Attorneys, we are distressed at the alarming number of people who are driving on Florida roads with suspended or revoked drivers licenses. Those same motorists, which in 2008, alone, totaled more than two million, caused almost 20 percent of all car accidents resulting in wrongful deaths, according to a AAA study...

Hit and Run Car Accident Leaves Two Dead in Ft. Lauderdale

Posted on February 13, 2009
As Florida Lawyers, working in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, we are saddened when tourists, those coming to our city to enjoy themselves, are wrongfully killed by the carelessness of speeding motorists. Unfortunately, such another tragedy happened today when two British tourists were killed in a hit-and-run car accident outside of the Marriott Hotel in which they were staying...

Florida Drivers Beware, Car Accidents Caused by Uninsured Motorists Expected to Rise

Posted on January 22, 2009
As Florida Lawyers who represent injured victims of car accidents, we are concerned about a recent report from an insurance research group indicating that the country's current financial recession will result in a sharp increase in uninsured motorists, particularly in Florida, by 2010...

Palm Beach County Car Accident Results in Mother's Death

Posted on January 10, 2009
As Florida Lawyers who handle serious injury and wrongful death car accidents, we are truly distressed by the tragic story of a mother of eight who died today due to the recklessness of an unlicensed and drunk driver, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office...

Court Rejects Claims of Floridians injured by Medical Products Liability

Posted on January 07, 2009
As Florida Lawyers we are truly disappointed by the current state of the law regarding the erosion of injured victims rights caused by the negligence of medical product manufacturers. A Federal Judge in Minnesota just dismissed cases brought by thousands of injured patients with heart-defibrillator wires which were proven to fracture, shock and sometimes kill patients ...

Florida Court Says Injured Kids Can Sue Even if Parents Sign Waiver

Posted on December 11, 2008
In some great news for children who are unfortunately injured in Florida, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that parents are not authorized to sign a personal injury or accident release/waiver on behalf of their minor child. As Florida Lawyers, we commend the Court's ruling, which will allow children injured while participating in a commercial activity, such as at amusement parks, to seek compensation for damages caused by the negligence of the business operator...

Four Dead In Broward Car Accidents

Posted on October 31, 2008
As Florida Lawyers, we are sad to report that last evening was one of the deadliest in memory, as three different car accidents resulted in the wrongful deaths of four people. The collisions included an accident in which two vehicles erupted in flames...

Florida Lawyers Can Help Injured Workers Again

Posted on October 24, 2008
On behalf of Florida Lawyers, we are overjoyed to give some great news for workers injured in Florida. The Florida Supreme Court declared the Worker's Compensation Law, enacted by the Florida Legislature in 2003, to be ambiguous. finding that claimant's attorneys are entitled to recover a "reasonable? attorney?s fee...

Broward Sherrif Hopes to Prevent Deadly Car Accidents

Posted on October 16, 2008
On the heals of being informed that Ft. Lauderdale is one of the aggressive driving capitals of the State of Florida, in which too many people suffer wrongful deaths in car accidents, the Broward Sheriff's Office announced a law enforcement agreement which permits any police officer to cite aggressive drivers everywhere in Broward County...

Car Accident in Ft. Lauderdale Results in Multiple Injuries

Posted on October 15, 2008
In an unusual series of circumstances, a multi-vehicle car accident, in which one of the cars collided with a Broward County Bus, forcing another one of the cars into a bus bench, resulting in injuries to seven people, who were taken to Broward General Hospital...

Don't Cause a Car Accident in Davie, Florida, It Will Cost You

Posted on September 18, 2008
In what we can only imagine is the beginning of an alarming trend, drivers who cause car accidents in the Town of Davie, Florida, a suburb of Ft. Lauderdale, will be billed close to a $1,000.00 by the Town for expenses supposedly incurred in their handling of those car accidents...

South Florida Car Accident Deaths Declining

Posted on August 31, 2008
Finally in some good news for Broward County residents, police are reporting a seven percent decline in car and motorcycle deaths this year, compared to 2007. This makes the second consecutive year of such decline. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, car and motorcycle accident wrongful deaths are decreasing monthly...

Injured Florida Car Accident Victims Cannot Sue Rental Car Companies

Posted on August 20, 2008
In what is certainly bad news for those injured in car accidents caused by the negligence of rental car drivers, Federal Law now definitively prevents any such personal injury cases against those rental car companies. While the United States Congress previously enacted the so-called Graves Amendment, a number of lower courts in Miami and Ft...

Disabled Truck Drivers Cause Many Deadly Accidents

Posted on July 21, 2008
According to a recent government report, many truck accidents, especially those resulting in wrongful death, particularly in Florida, are caused by truck drivers with diagnosed disabling medical conditions. Even though many of the drivers receive social security disability payments, for seizures, heart attacks or loss of consciousness, thousands of those same truck drivers also have valid commercial driver's licenses...

Car Accident In Miramar Leads to Wrongful Death of Baby

Posted on July 06, 2008
In what we consider to be the most tragic, and preventable, type of wrongful death, an early Sunday morning car accident in Miramar, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, left a less than one year old baby dead. Unbelievably, the baby was in a baby carrier which her mother failed to secure...

New Florida Law Hopes to Prevent Motorcycle Accidents

Posted on June 25, 2008
All we can say is, "it is about time," as Florida will finally require anyone who wants to get a motorcycle license to undergo a basic riding course. Given the number of motorcycle accidents, particularly in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale, too many of which result in serious spinal cord injuries, we certainly believe that this new law will have a beneficial effect...

Police Enforce "Move Over" Law to Prevent Roadside Car Accidents

Posted on June 24, 2008
In their annual effort to remind Florida motorists of their need to comply with the "move over" law, the Florida Highway Patrol is beginning a strict enforcement policy this week. The increased police effort is to hopefully prevent needless roadside car accidents, which, on too many occasions, lead to the wrongful death of an emergency worker...

Staring at Crashed Fort Lauderdale Police Car Causes Four Car Accidents

Posted on June 11, 2008
Consider this one as a wake up call for all Florida drivers to avoid being distracted by car accidents they drive past. Today, four separate car accidents occurred along I-95 in Boynton Beach, due to drivers taking their eyes of the road. The car accidents happened when, as described by the Florida Highway Patrol "people started slowing down to see [a] wrecked [Fort Lauderdale Police Department] patrol car on the road and they were hitting each other...

Car Accident Claims Life of University of Miami Law Professor

Posted on June 09, 2008
The University of Miami School of Law lost a pillar of it's community, when a Sunday morning car accident outside of downtown Miami claimed the life of Professor Alan Swan. Professor Swan died from injuries suffered in the collision which occurred Sunday morning on northbound S...

Wrong Way Car Accident In Boca Raton Leaves One Dead

Posted on June 06, 2008
A car driving against traffic on Interstate 95 caused a car accident which left one person dead and injured two others in Boca Raton Friday evening. The car, identified as a Jaguar, was going the wrong way on I-95, just north of Yamato Road, when it caused an SUV to overturn...

Hallandale Hopes Red Light Cameras Will Prevent Car Accidents

Posted on June 05, 2008
The city of Hallandale, which is just south of Fort Lauderale in Broward County, is hoping that installing red-light cameras at busy and dangerous intersections will, in the words of Police chief Tom Magill, "reduce the risk of injuries to our citizens," by reducing, if not preventing, car accidents...

Boca Raton Car Accident Leaves Children Critically Injured

Posted on June 01, 2008
In what should be a lesson to all parents, a father and two children, none of whom were wearing seat belts or child safety seats, suffered critical injuries in a Sunday morning car accident on I-95 in Boca Raton. Fire Rescue took the injured to Delray Medical Center...

Ft. Lauderdale Train Accident Leaves One Dead

Posted on May 21, 2008
A Coral Springs Man died when his car was unable to clear the railroad crossing on West Atlantic Blvd., in Ft. Lauderdale, and was struck by an Amtrack Train. The train, which was traveling from Miami to New York, was going approximately 80 m.p.h. when it had the accident with a car driven by Shawn Crowell...

Florida Leads Nation in Boating Accident Deaths

Posted on May 09, 2008
Not surprisingly, given our location and the number of boaters in Florida, we again lead the nation in the number of boating accident fatalities. Unfortunately, Miami-Dade County has the dubious distinction of leading the State, having had 13 such wrongful deaths last year...

Hollywood Car Accident with Tractor Trailer Leaves One Dead

Posted on May 06, 2008
A late night car accident in Hollywood, Florida, between a car and a tractor trailer resulted in the wrongful death of the car's driver. The car was heading south on the Florida Turnpike when it apparently lost control, crashed through a concrete wall and into oncoming traffic...

Florida Smokers Can Claim Part of $600 Million Fund

Posted on April 26, 2008
A Miami Dade County Judge ruled that Florida smokers, former smokers and survivors of smokers may be eligible for a portion of an unprecedented fund of $600 million which was established by the tobacco industry. The qualifications are: the disease or medical condition must have been first diagnosed or manifested itself before November 21, 1996; and claimants will be required to submit "contemporaneous, verifiable proof," mainly medical records dated before November 21, 1996, to support their claim...

Car Accident Victims Receive Improved Protection in Side Impact Accidents

Posted on April 10, 2008
According to a report release today by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, new mid-size cars fared much better, than prior year's testing, in protecting victims of side-impact car accidents. The tests were done to determine what type of injuries, serious or otherwise, occupants involved in a variety of accidents would suffer...

Miami Construction Accident Leaves Two Dead

Posted on March 25, 2008
Two workers died today in a construction accident when a 39 story crane collapsed. The crane, which fell from a height of hundreds of feet, landed on the construction site's "safety office," causing the wrongful death of Jeremy Thonsbury, a 21 year old from Tamarac, and another, yet to be identified, worker...

Florida Highway Patrol Cracks Down to Prevent Deadly Car Accidents

Posted on March 06, 2008
Given the increasing number of police officers injured and killed in car accidents, while they are involved in traffic stops along Florida highways, the Florida Highway Patrol and the Broward County Sheriff's Department are starting a zero tolerance initiative to enforce the State's "Move Over" law...

Ft. Lauderdale Car Accident Results in Wrongful Death of Teenager

Posted on March 03, 2008
In what we truly consider the epitome of a wrongful death and clearly a tragedy, a 19 year old from Oakland Park, a city adjacent to Ft. Lauderdale, who was wearing her seat-belt, died in a car accident Sunday evening. The accident which occurred on the ramp heading from southbound I-95 to 595, was caused when a "phantom vehicle" swerved into the 19 year old's lane, causing her to take evasive action and strike a large sign post...

Miami Car Accident Results in Death

Posted on March 02, 2008
Friday was a deadly night on the MacCarthur Causeway, the main roadway from Miami to South Beach, as a three car accident resulted in the wrongful death of an occupant of one of the vehicles. The accident occurred when a Toyota sports car collided with a Chevy Blazer and then rolled over...

Motorcycle Accident Leaves One Dead in Miami

Posted on February 15, 2008
Thursday night, which is a popular night for high performance motorcyclists in Miami to cruise the streets, was a deadly night, as a twenty something year old male died this morning when he had an accident after losing control of his high performance motorcycle in Miami...

Student On His Way To School Involved in Car Accident

Posted on January 30, 2008
In a wake up call for Florida drivers, a student on his way to class at Hallandale High School, located in a suburb of Broward County, was the victim of a serious car accident, when a van, driven by an unidentified female, struck him. According to police and witnesses, the student was within the school zone when the van struck him...

Deadly Car Accidents in Palm Beach and Ft. Lauderdale result in Pedestrian Death

Posted on January 18, 2008
In a wake-up call for pedestrians, separate car accidents resulted in the wrongful death of a 71 year old woman in Delray Beach, a suburb in Palm Beach County, and critical injuries to a man in Ft. Lauderdale. Both accident victims were pedestrians. An SUV being operated by a driver with a suspended license struck the Delray Beach victim...

Car Accident in Deerfield Beach Leaves One Dead

Posted on December 27, 2007
A family trip ended tragically when a head-on car accident in Deerfield Beach resulted in the wrongful death of one driver and spinal cord injuries to two others. The accident, which happened at the 300 block of S.E. 10th Street, in northern Broward County, occurred when the driver of one of the cars veered into oncoming traffic...

Broward County Pedestrian Dies in Truck Accident

Posted on December 12, 2007
In a wake up call for pedestrians throughout the State of Florida, a man from Davie, a suburb of Ft. Lauderdale, died after being involved in a truck accident this past weekend. The pedestrian was attempting to cross West Stirling Road when he was hit by an SUV...

Two Dead in Separate Miami Car Accidents

Posted on December 10, 2007
In continuing with our last entry about local alcohol related accidents, two South Florida residents, one from Miami and the other from Sunrise, died in separate car accidents when each of them were struck by cars driven by apparent drunk drivers. The first victim was a tow truck driver who was attempting to help some motorists, who themselves had an accident...

Motorbike Accident Leaves Two Dead in Ft. Lauderdale

Posted on December 04, 2007
In the unfortunate start of what appears to be another deadly holiday season for accidents on Florida roadways, two Broward County residents, one from Davie and the other from Miramar, died this week when they fell off of a motor scooter, landed on US1 and were run over by other cars...

Florida Landowners Now Liable for Car Accidents Caused by Their Landscaping

Posted on November 22, 2007
In some great news for Florida drivers, the Florida Supreme Court held that homeowners may be liable for personal injuries and wrongful death from car accidents which are caused by the landowner's failure to prevent their landscaping from overlapping into a public right of way and obstructing other traffic or traffic signs and signals...

Palm Beach Jury Finds ATV Owner Liable for Accident

Posted on November 07, 2007
A West Palm Beach Jury held the owners of an all terrain vehicle (ATV) responsible for the wrongful death of a 13 year old Boca Raton child and ordered them to pay the grieving parents $3.6 million dollars. The child was driving the ATV when she lost control, struck a tree and died...

FHP Reacts to Deadly Truck Crashes with Crackdown

Posted on October 26, 2007
Due to a disproportionate number of deadly car accidents involving commercial trucks, the Florida Highway Patrol is heightening enforcement of aggressive tractor trailer drivers in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties. The so-called "Operation Safe Ride" is part of the state's ongoing efforts to reduce wrongful deaths and personal injuries on Florida highways...

Lack of Security Results in Third Attack at Pompano Casino

Posted on October 25, 2007
In what appears to be another example of a business' negligent failure to provide adequate security to their customers, two elderly patrons of the Isle of Capri Casino in Pompano Beach were were attacked while exiting the Casino. These attacks were the third such incidents to happen in the past month, the other two resulted in extensive personal injuries...

"Put the Brakes on Fatalities" to Stop Florida Car Accident Deaths

Posted on October 10, 2007
Florida drivers are urged to be extra cautious today, the seventh annual "Put The Brakes on Fatalities Day." The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, in an effort to help reduce the more than 3,365 wrongful deaths which result from car accidents in Florida each year, is joining in the national observation of this special day...

Florida Legislature Says Car Accident Victims Must Still Have PIP

Posted on October 05, 2007
You can file this one as more news than my opinion, this afternoon the Florida Legislature passed a new version of the so called "PIP," personal injury protection law, which will apply to all Florida drivers and car accident victims effective January 1, 2008...

Injured Florida Car Accident Victims Can Sue Rental Car Companies

Posted on September 21, 2007
In what we can only describe as great news for Florida car accident victims, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, which covers Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties, declared a Federal Law, which prohibited personal injury lawsuits against car rental companies, as unconstitutional...

Palm Beach and Miami Buck Decline in Car Accident Deaths

Posted on September 20, 2007
In some good news for most of Florida, the death rate for victims of car accidents on Florida Highways fell to new low in 2006. According to the State of Florida Motor Vehicle Department, this is the first time in the last ten years that deaths from car accidents deceased...

Miami SUV Driver Dies on Florida Turnpike

Posted on September 14, 2007
In tragic car accident, a Miami Man, who was not wearing his seat-belt, was run over, when he was thrown from his SUV after it rolled-over on the Florida Turnpike. The SUV swerved several times, and rolled-over at least twice, when the driver was ejected onto the road...