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Discussion of personal injury law and legal issues, with Florida focus.
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Toddler Run Over In Driveway - A Too Common Occurance

Posted on November 28, 2008
We’ve heard these stories before, too many times. This time a 2-year-old riding his tricycle in a driveway was run over in a driveway. The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office says the little boy, Sergio Martinez, was riding his tricycle, not in the street, when Rangel Rauda driving a Ford Explorer ran him over...

72 Car Safety Awards Highlight U.S. Automakers

Posted on November 28, 2008
If you happen to be car shopping, you’ll want to visit the Top Safety Picks from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The list for 2009 has more domestic cars that ever before. 72 vehicles are on the list, double the number from last year...

Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch Costing Consumers And J&J

Posted on November 26, 2008
It’s hard to believe it is still on the market. Johnson & Johnson has paid about $69 million to settle hundreds of lawsuits by women use used the Ortho Evra birth-control patch. Still to be heard, thousands of complaints that have been filed in federal and state courts...

$16.6 Million Duragesic Pain Patch Trial Ends

Posted on November 24, 2008
The trial of a woman who died from an overdose of the drug delivered through the Duragesic pain-killing patch is over. The jury awarded her husband and three children $16.6 million. The Chicago area woman, Janice DiCosolo, 38, died in February 2004. DiCosolo was the mother of three children who suffered constant pain from a neurological condition, reflex sympathetic dystrophy for which she used the patch...

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Bullies On The Internet

Posted on November 23, 2008
The father of a son who committed suicide on the Internet this week is “appalled” by the audience that watched his son die and is calling for regulations to oversee the Internet. Abraham Biggs, 19, of Pembroke Pines, Florida, took an overdose of medication for bipolar disorder...

More Warnings for Derma Fillers

Posted on November 20, 2008
An FDA advisory panel believes the cosmetics industry is not coming clean about the potential adverse side effects from dermal fillers, injected to soften facial wrinkles. Popular brands are Juvederm (Allergan) and Restylane (Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp)...

Raising the Tax On Cigarettes - It's About Time

Posted on November 19, 2008
It makes sense. Cigarettes cost the state of Florida about $6 billion a year in exorbitant health care costs associated with smoking - heart disease, cancers and hospitalizations, according to the Alliance for Healthy Florida Campaign. Productivity on the job decreases among smokers too...

Tricks of the Trade

Posted on November 17, 2008
At Farah and Farah, we’ve seen just about every excuse to avoid paying an insurance claim. Every day the big insurance companies do a cost analysis and find creative ways NOT to pay, while they continue to collect premiums. It’s called profit, and for the insurance industry that comes in at about $30 billion a year with insurance CEOs among the highest paid of any industry – it doesn’t hurt to find out the source of all of that profit...

The Hiring Of Home Health Aides

Posted on November 15, 2008
Frequently we at Farah and Farah are asked whether hiring a home health aide to watch over an elderly loved one, in our home or theirs, is a good idea and what should someone look for. You should treat the hiring of a home health care person with the same scrutiny as you would for your child...

Florida Vision Test Works To Reduce Elderly Deaths On The Road

Posted on November 13, 2008
It was almost five years ago now that Florida changed its law to require elderly drivers, age 80 and above, to have their vision tested before they renew their drivers license. It turns out that was a good idea. Requiring drivers 80 and older to pass a vision test for license renewal had reduced the numbers of deaths for drivers 80 or older by 17 percent after the law was first passed in January 2004...

Woman Buckles Up Infant As Her Last Act

Posted on November 13, 2008
A very sad story was in our paper this week. A woman, 39-year-old Kimberly Frazier, was driving south on U.S. 1 in Flagler County in northeast Florida. She drove her Chevy Blazer too close to a truck being driven by James Wilkes, 50, of Green Cove Springs, west of Jacksonville...

Support National Salvage Vehicles Database

Posted on November 11, 2008
Every try to buy a used car? About as much fun as going to the dentist. Not to disparage dentists, or the used car industry, but it can be very tricky. The used car stuff that is. Vehicles that have been totaled, flooded, fire-damaged, sold and re-sold several times over, and even stolen have been salvaged, repaired and sold to innocent buyers across the nation...

Vytorin Lawsuits Over Low Cholesterol Claims

Posted on November 07, 2008
You know the Vytorin commercials – comparing Fettucini Alfredo to your Uncle Alfredo – both are sources of high cholesterol, the ads said. Food and family are both to blame. Now Merck & Co and partner, Schering-Plough Corp are facing a probe by the Department of Justice about whether the promotion of Vytorin made false claims...

30 Off-Road Fatalities Subject Of Govt Probe

Posted on November 07, 2008
We blog all too frequently about children who are hurt or killed in off-highway vehicles and ATVs. Now the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is looking into the design of a handful of brands associated with more than 30 fatalities. The Yamaha Motor Company’s Rhino is one of those brands...

Drinking Age Should Stay 21

Posted on November 06, 2008
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is releasing new data that shows that keeping the drinking age laws at 21 prevented an estimated 4,441 drunk driving deaths over the last five years. NHTSA was responding to a national movement among colleges to turn back the drinking age to 18...

Cruise Line Customers To Receive A Refund

Posted on November 06, 2008
Passengers traveling on one cruise line have a refund coming thanks to Florida’s Attorney General. Bill McCollum filed a lawsuit this week against Imperial Majesty Cruise Line. The company is alleged to have added a fuel surcharge of $20 to $30 secretly onto customers’ bills...

Exploding Boat Injures Florida-Georgia Fans

Posted on November 01, 2008
The Florida-Georgia game weekend started on a bad note for four fans aboard a boat that exploded in the Intracoastal Waterway of Jacksonville. Two people were reportedly thrown from the boat when it exploded and burned to a crisp. The explosion occurred as the boat was refueling near the Palm Cove Marina on Beach Boulevard...

Let The Games Begin - 709 Ballots Rejected So Far

Posted on November 01, 2008
Remember the hanging chads from the 2000 election and the dysfunctional voting machines that registered the exact opposite candidate than a person voted for in 2004? Florida is a battleground state that makes it one of the most controversial areas in the country for fraud...

Avandia Focus Of Petition By Public Citizen

Posted on October 30, 2008
Type-2 diabetes drug Avandia once showed great promise in reducing blood glucose levels in patients. GlaxoSmithKline thought they had a winner on their hands. But then the reports of heart and liver damage. Now the consumer group, Public Citizen wants the Food and Drug Administration to take Avandia off of the market and has filed a petition to that end...

JAMA Favors Consumers In Upcoming Levine Pre-emption Case

Posted on October 27, 2008
Coming up next week before the U.S. Supreme Court is an issue that affects all Americans who take any kind of prescription drug from time to time – that would be virtually all of us. The case before the court on November 3 is Wyeth v. Levine and the decision will help clarify one of the fiercest battles between consumers and corporations to date, known as federal pre-emption...

5-Year-Old's Asthma Death At School Results In Wrongful Death Suit

Posted on October 25, 2008
The tragic death of a five-year-old boy who suffered an asthma attack at the beginning of school last year has resulted in a wrongful death lawsuit. Trenton Stokes died in August 2007. It was his fourth day of kindergarten at Orange Park Elementary School in Clay County, Florida...

Florida Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Injured Workers

Posted on October 25, 2008
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday stepped in to help injured workers. Ever since a controversial 2003 reform of the state’s workers’ compensation law, lawyer’s fees have been capped. In the case before the court this week, the attorney for Emma Murray was compensated $8 an hour...

Dangerous Cribs Recalled After Two Infants Die

Posted on October 24, 2008
An 8-month-old child has died , after becoming entrapped and suffocating in a Delta Enterprise Co. drop side crib. The company is voluntarily recalling almost 1.6 million cribs made in China, Indonesia and Taiwan. And this week, reports of a second child dying in the crib have come in...

Antilock Brakes On Motorcycles Might Save Lives In Florida

Posted on October 23, 2008
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety finds that antilock brakes on motorcycles could save lives. Antilock brakes are installed in cars and trucks. Typically they are found on touring bikes and a limited number of motorcycles. They add a cost of about $1,000...

Florida Foreclosures At Number 3 Nationwide

Posted on October 17, 2008
As forclosures are at record numbers across the country comes news that once again Florida ranks near the top – the number three spot nationwide. According to Foreclosures.com, the Sunshine State was topped only by Nevada and Arizona. · Nevada 77...

New School Bus Rules Protect Manufacturers

Posted on October 17, 2008
NHTSA, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, issued new rules this week that will improve the nation’s 474,000 school buses. Seat and shoulder belts will be required on small school buses. The requirement will also change seat backs making them four inches higher in all new buses...

13-Year-Old Killed At Apartment, Mother Settles Lawsuit

Posted on October 17, 2008
The mother of a 13-year-old Jacksonville girl, killed by a stray bullet fired within her apartment complex, has settled her lawsuit against the property owner. Tina Williams filed the lawsuit against Hartwood Place Apartments in Jacksonville. She claimed if the apartments had better security her daughter, Shenice Holmes, would be alive today...

Angry Investors File Suit

Posted on October 13, 2008
A wave of class action lawsuits has begun by angry shareholders who invested in two mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They allege that stock underwriters hid the true numbers on the mortgage giants, failing to disclose that Fannie Mae was “grossly undercapitalized” as a result of the subprime holdings...

Chain Reaction Involving Tractor-Trailer Kills One

Posted on October 11, 2008
A driver from Kingsland, Georgia died Friday afternoon after a chain-reaction on the road involving a tractor-trailer. The tractor-trailer was hauling a load of beer, heading south near Pecan Park Road, when he rear-ended a pickup truck that was pulling a cement mixer...

Florida Defines Road Rage And Aggressive Driving

Posted on October 09, 2008
Aggressive driving is responsible for 2/3rds of all fatalities on the road each year, or 27,000 deaths. That number is four times the number of deaths resulting from DUI or drunk under the influence. "Aggressive driving" is driving under the influence of “impaired emotions” which then leads to high-risk decisions...

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