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Discussion of personal injury law and legal issues, with Florida focus.
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Last Entry: January 13, 2010 at 11:16:39

Florida Enacts "Three Crash" Law To Educate Bad Drivers

Posted on January 13, 2010
About 1,000 Floridians should expect to soon be sent back to the classroom because of bad driving. A new law in Florida mandates that drivers who are at fault for three crash-related moving violations over a three-year period go back to the classroom to refresh their education about the need to drive safely...

Why Did A 7-Year-Old Fall Through A Skylight?

Posted on January 06, 2010
It was an unbelievable fall at a Jacksonville Beach strip mall. A 7-year-old boy plunged through a skylight on the roof, falling 14-feet to the ground. A witness said she heard the child cry. The boy's mother and sister were also on the roof. The child was transported by air ambulance to Shands Jacksonville and is reported to be in serious condition...

Consumers Should Stop Taking Tylenol Arthritis

Posted on December 29, 2009
If you open the Tylenol bottle and there is a funny smell, close it and call Johnson & Johnson. The Food and Drug Administration is expanding its recall of TYLENOL Arthritis Pain Caplets in the 100 count bottle. The bottles have a distinctive red EZ-Open Cap...

Three-Year-Old Killed on I-95 Wreck With Tractor-Trailer

Posted on December 29, 2009
A three-year-old Pittsburgh boy died in a crash on Interstate-95 in McIntosh County, Georgia Sunday afternoon. Witnesses say a tractor-trailer, was heading at a high rate of speed before it hit the rear of the 2007 Toyota Sienna van carrying a family of five from Pittsburgh...

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136 Silver Alerts Issued In 2009

Posted on December 27, 2009
They are a lot like the Amber Alerts. Since Florida began the Silver Alert program a year ago, 136 alerts have been issued for missing Floridians ages 54 to 94. Some have Alzheimer's, while others suffer from dementia. Many wander away from their homes...

Jacksonville Girl Killed In Crosswalk When Light Changed

Posted on December 23, 2009
A six-year-old Jacksonville girl didn't stand a chance when she was hit by an SUV in a Jacksonville crosswalk Saturday morning. Her mother was pushing a stroller with her five-year-old disabled brother crossing San Jose Boulevard near Kori Road. The three were in the furthest southbound lane when the light turned green and an SUV pulled ahead and hit the little girl, killing her at the scene...

Jacksonville Among Worst For Tap Water EWG Finds

Posted on December 17, 2009
This news comes from the highly credible nonprofit group, Environmental Working Group. EWG finds there are over 300 pollutants in U.S. tap water. After analyzing almost 20 million records, EWG finds that more than half of those chemicals are not even subject to health or safety regulations...

Rotweiller Kills Florida Toddler

Posted on December 15, 2009
A 20-month old little Florida boy was attacked and killed by a Rottweiler after dropping his cookie on the floor, according to law enforcement authorities in New Port Richey, Florida. The baby was visiting his aunt's home during a party Saturday night...

Teen Driver Dies One Week After Fatal SUV Crash Kills Mother

Posted on December 12, 2009
There seems to be no end to the tragedy suffered by one Jacksonville family. Last weekend, the family was vacationing in Orlando when their GMC Yukon SUV suddenly lurched forward in a parking lot, ran through a fence, and plunged nine feet down an embankment into a retention pond, where it landed upside down...

Consumers Need To Be Informed About St. John's wort and Cataracts

Posted on December 12, 2009
News is beginning to emerge in the popular media that the plant, St. John's wort may, while being a cure for mild depression, not be good for our eyesight. Research out of Fordham University finds that in the lab, hypericin, which is the active ingredient in St...

18-Year-Old St. Augustine Woman Killed in Crash

Posted on December 04, 2009
Condolences are pouring into the MySpace and Facebook pages of an 18-year-old young woman from St. Augustine, Florida who died earlier this week in a car crash. Megan Elizabeth Bunn and another teenager were killed Sunday night when the truck they were riding in collided with an ambulance...

Tougher Driver's License Requirements in North Florida January First

Posted on December 03, 2009
Beginning January first, it is not going to be as easy as it has been in the past to renew or replace your driver's license in the North Florida's St. Johns County. It's all part of the Real ID Act that was passed by Congress on May 11, 2005. Previously the rules were not as stringent, but now residents will have to provide their Social Security number, their identity, and address...

Supreme Court Lets Stand Ford Explorer $82.6 Million Verdict

Posted on December 01, 2009
In 2002, a San Diego woman lost her ability to walk after her Ford Explorer rolled over and its roof collapsed, severing her spine. She was awarded $369 million by jurors who listened to the evidence against Ford. As frequently happens, a judge and appellate court eventually whittled down the award to $82...

11-Year-Old Dies After Pellet Gun Blast To Chest

Posted on November 23, 2009
Mitchell "D.J." Maxwell, 11, of Waycross, Georgia, was at a sleep over Friday night with two other boys at the football coach's home when he was shot in the chest with a .177-caliber pellet gun. He died in the hospital about an hour later. Our deepest condolences go out to the Maxwell family at this time...

Gov. Crist Supports Texting Ban This Legislative Session

Posted on November 19, 2009
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has come out with a Legislative wish list for 2010. He clearly stated he is in favor of a ban on texting while driving this year, adding new momentum for the state Legislature to finally adopt some legislation when they meet in the spring...

Making Health Care Easier and More Affordable

Posted on November 17, 2009
When you need to access health care in a hurry in Florida, you might not be thinking about cost comparisons like you would with food or toys. But consider this. Shop for health care like you shop for anything when you want to save money – wisely...

Party House Mom Facing Two Counts of Manslaughter

Posted on November 15, 2009
Her lawyer had argued that Diane Katz Santarelli should not be charged with two counts of manslaughter after hosting an open house drinking party that preceded the death of two teens in an auto crash. But Friday, St. Johns Circuit Judge Wendy W. Berger, refused to dismiss manslaughter charges against Santarelli, 51, saying her action 'set in motion a chain of events' that ended January 11 with the deaths of Jesse Calvin Pitts, 18 and Taylor Rae Brennan, 17...

Florida Tops List For Pedestrian Deaths

Posted on November 14, 2009
A 42-year-old St. Augustine, Florida woman was killed Friday night after authorities say she walked in front of a moving car. Glenadine Harding was crossing Florida 207 when she was hit by a Honda sedan about 6:20 p.m. The driver was identified as Jill E...

Number of Yaz and Yasmin Lawsuits Growing

Posted on November 13, 2009
In 2007, Susan Galinis of San Francisco was the happy mother of 3-year-old twins, until doctors put her on the Yaz birth control pill. Four weeks and one day later she suffered a stroke. Today it's obvious to see part of her skull has been removed...

FDA Addresses Medical Errors And $4 Billion Pricetag

Posted on November 06, 2009
As we look at saving money on health care spending, Americans should consider drugs, specifically the huge cost of medical errors involving prescriptions. Medication interactions, a mix-up in the pharmacy such as switching out the wrong prescription, an inability read a doctor's handwriting, all can lead to drug dosage errors which cost us all about $4 billion a year, not to mention lives and injuries...

25-Year-Old Loses Life In I-95 Explorer Rollover

Posted on November 01, 2009
It seems like we are reporting on these Ford Explorer rollover deaths on a weekly basis. Now there has been another. A 25-year-old Orange Park woman lost her life on I-95 Saturday. The Florida Highway Patrol reports that Kathleen Lugo was heading south on Interstate 95 in Flagler County when she lost control of her 1999 Ford Explorer SUV and crashed Saturday afternoon around 3:15 p...

Two Die After Collision With School Bus

Posted on September 30, 2009
Children at a Clay County elementary school are trying to cope with the deaths of two people who were in a car that collided with a school bus. The Florida Highway Patrol reports the car ran into the back of a school bus filled with kids returning home Tuesday afternoon...

Teen Mother And Unborn Baby Killed in Pickup Crash

Posted on September 24, 2009
A Westside Jacksonville family is grieving and making funeral plans for a 19-year-old woman and her unborn baby who died in a collision between two pickup trucks Tuesday afternoon. Eight people were in the two trucks when they collided in the westbound lane of Normandy Boulevard just before 5 p...

Grandmother Blames Gardasil In Granddaughter's Death

Posted on September 20, 2009
Jessie Ericzon was 17-years-old and about to graduate from high school. Like many girls her age, she was given the first of the three-shot series of Gardasil, the Merck drug that is supposed to protect young girls from the human papillomavirus, or HPV, that causes two types of cervical cancer and two types of warts...

Florida Teens Rally Against Texting While Driving

Posted on September 17, 2009
By now we've all seen the video on YouTube than aired on British television. The public service announcement should be seen by all teenagers who are close to the driving age, or presently behind the wheel. A warning – it is a gruesome, up close and graphic look at the inside of a car during an accident...

Teen Facing Vehicular Homicide In Another Teen's Death

Posted on September 11, 2009
The friends and family of Miranda Zant will be celebrating her 17th birthday this Saturday, but Miranda won't be there. She was killed last July when the pickup truck in which she was riding rolled onto her. Now the driver is being charged in her death...

Bicyclist Critical After Hit By Five Time DUI Offender

Posted on September 08, 2009
This is a tragic story. A 77-year-old man, riding his bicycle 10 a.m. Saturday morning on Seminole Road in Atlantic Beach, was hit by the driver of an SUV. Charges have now been filed against the driver, 41-year-old William Adams. He was driving his SUV, towing a trailer when the right fender well of the trailer hit the man...

What Happened Before Man Jumped Off The Carnival Sensation

Posted on September 04, 2009
Martha Jackson, a passenger on the Carnival Sensation, returning from four nights in the Bahamas, heard the splash. A 34-year-old unidentified man from Philadelphia jumped from his sixth-deck suite aboard the Sensation late Wednesday and into the Atlantic waters off Port St...

UNF Student Hit And Killed By Two Hit-And-Run Drivers

Posted on September 03, 2009
He was a 23-year-old graduate student at the University of North Florida. Yasser Hamdy, from Egypt, was killed in a double hit-and-run early Thursday morning. Hamdy and two friends were riding their scooters back to the UNF campus from McDonalds about 2 a...

New Chrysler Will Accept Liability Claims, But Not All

Posted on August 30, 2009
The New Chrysler has reversed itself. After filing for bankruptcy and then emerging fresh from a sale to Fiat, the "New Chrysler" said it would refuse to accept any product liability lawsuits resulting from the 30 million vehicles still on the road...

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