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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

Couple Together 65 Years Die Together In Auto Accident

Posted on October 08, 2008
James and Blanch Whiddon had been married for 65 years. They told relatives recently they could never live without each other. After a car accident, they died three days apart last week. James, 85, and his wife who was 79, were on their way home from the grocery store September 30th...

Teen Auto Safety Message By Teens For Teens

Posted on October 08, 2008
With more than 36,000 teen drivers involved in car crashes in Florida last year – and a teen killed every 6.5 minutes nationwide, the state’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles has created an interactive web site to drive home the message of safety on the road...

DUI Mom Will Go To Prison For 9 Years For Killing Son

Posted on October 03, 2008
A 32-yer-old Jacksonville woman will be spending close to nine years in prison for driving drunk and killing her son in the crash that followed. Last April, Angela Harper was was drunk driving at 100 mph on Interstate-295, south of Jacksonville. Harper lost control of her Saturn and hit a metal guardrail on Interstate 295 in Jacksonville...

Teens Recovering After ATV Hits Tree

Posted on October 03, 2008
This week, a couple of teenage boys riding an all-terrain vehicle in Baker County, smashed into a tree after losing control of the ATV on a dirt road. Neither wore a helmet, and were both reported to be in serious condition. 17-year-old Michael Jewel of Sanderson was driving...

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Florida, Eight States Sue Merck & Co

Posted on October 02, 2008
Florida is joining eight other states in seeking its share of money it spent reimbursing patients who took the dangerous painkiller, Vioxx. All of the states are also suing Merck & Co alleging deceptive marketing of the recalled painkiller Vioxx. The lawsuit claims that while Merck offered Vioxx to the Medicaid program it was hiding the drug’s adverse effects in direct violation of the state’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act...

Auto Fraud Database Will Help Consumers

Posted on September 26, 2008
It was 1992 when Congress passed a law calling for the creation of a database of rebuilt or stolen vehicles. But it never happened until now. A U.S. judge has ruled that the Department of Justice has until January 30th to make this information available to consumers...

Medtronic Is In The News Again

Posted on September 26, 2008
This time patients and doctors need to be aware of a substance used to promote bone growth during spine-repair surgery. "Infuse Bone Graft" has led to complications, largely during the "Off-label" use of the drug, according to the Wall Street Journal...

Florida Fatal Highway Accidents Down, Alcohol Use Deaths Up

Posted on September 25, 2008
Fatal accidents on Florida's roads are down four percent, according to the Florida Highway Patrol, but deaths from alcohol-related crashes are on the rise. For the second year in a row, the number of traffic accidents is down as are the number of deaths from those accidents - down more than four percent from 2006...

Student Killed When Tractor Trailer Driver On Cellphone Collides With School Bus

Posted on September 24, 2008
Incredible details are coming out about a school bus crash in Citra, Florida that killed one 13-year old girl. The tractor-trailer driver was talking on his cell phone when he slammed into the school bus Wednesday! Four bystanders who witnessed the accident ran to the school bus and pulled out half of the students from the burning bus...

Teen Motocross Death In North Florida

Posted on September 20, 2008
Students at Bartram Trail High School are mourning a senior who was killed this week in a motocross track accident in Flagler County, Florida. Bennet "Ben" Gordon Geiger Jr. was just 17 years old. He had been riding motocross for two years and was on a practice ride at the Pax Trax Motocross in Bunnell Tuesday when his landed under his motorcycle after a jump...

Texting While Driving Still Allowed In Florida

Posted on September 20, 2008
Los Angeles area officials have banned the use of all mobile drvices by anyone at the controls of a moving train after it was discovered this week that a Metrolink engineer had been texting around the time he drove his commuter train into a freight train...

Gasoline In Short Supply And Expensive

Posted on September 20, 2008
The Florida Attorney General's Office had received more than 300 complaints by weeks end about gasoline price gouging following Hurricane Ike. The Gate stations in questions say their supplier raised the price on them and they're passing it onto the consumer...

REAL ID Driver's License Coming To Florida

Posted on September 19, 2008
Beginning in October, Florida drivers will have to obtain a nationally compliant drivers license called Real ID. This is controversial because it moves us one step closer to a national ID card, many believe will give government more control over our lives, while taking authority away from states...

Vehicular Homicide Charges Filed Against Officer's Girlfriend

Posted on September 16, 2008
A Jacksonville Sheriff Officer's girlfriend has been charged with his death in an auto accident. 50-year-old Officer Michael Hartsfield died July 30, when the car he was a passenger in crashed off Fort Caroline Road. It was driven by his friend, 45- year-old Vicki Mullins...

Rollover Study Shows Roof Strength Weakness

Posted on September 13, 2008
Three independent auto safety groups have found that the federal government's safety standard failed miserably for roof crush standards in real-world conditions. Researchers from Public Citizen, The Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Injury Research, strapped crash-test dummies into the vehicles in seat belts...

Nursing Home Fairness Fought By Industry

Posted on September 12, 2008
Binding arbitration. You might not know what means, but look in the fine print of most contracts these days. There is a line or two that agrees to let any dispute be settled by a panel, usually that favors the wrong-doer, and takes away your right to settle a dispute in court...

Can The Injured While Intoxicated File Suit?

Posted on September 10, 2008
Florida is a comparative negligence state, and that means you can make a personal injury claim based on the percentage of the other side's negligence. If they are half at fault, you get 50 percent. If you are 30 percent at fault, you'll get 70 percent of the value of your case...

Storms Hanna And Ike - When You Cannot Stay Home From Work?

Posted on September 05, 2008
We are in the middle of hurricane season in Florida and most of us are keeping an eye on the latest storms, Hanna and Ike. And although it looks like North Florida dodged a bullet again, experiencing tropical storms or hurricanes presents a dillemma for motorists...

8-Year-Old Girl Dies In Florida School Bus Accident

Posted on September 05, 2008
It is truly a parent's worst nightmare. School has been in session in Florida for nearly a week and in Tallahassee a school bus, a minivan, and a cement mixer truck collided this week killing an eight-year-old girl onboard the bus. Seven other children were injured Friday afternoon on a bus, owned by a Boys and Girls Club...

Teen Facing Vehicular Homicide In Death of Friend

Posted on September 03, 2008
A Jacksonville, Florida teenager has been charged with vehicular homicide in the death of his friend in an accident that happened in Mandarin last June. 17-year-old Daniel R. Farren had been drinking during the early morning of June 23rd. Police later said that he had a blood-alcohol of 0...

Red-Light Runners- Smile Your On Candid Camera

Posted on September 03, 2008
Those who feel compelled to run red lights have a new challenge in Florida. This week a new technology will take images of red-light runners and automatically issue them a ticket. The new technology began this week in Central Florida and will be set up at Orlando's seven deadliest intersections...

CPSC Recalls Three Unsafe Children's Items

Posted on August 30, 2008
With new funding and an expanded role, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is focusing on unsafe children's items. More than 115,000 wooden infant toys, wooden puzzles, infant rattles, pacifier holders and stroller toys were recalled by manufacturer Habermaass Corporation of Skaneateles, New York due to a choking hazard...

Dram Shop Laws Don't Always Protect Minors

Posted on August 29, 2008
The Dram Shop Act begins with the ancient word "dram" that refers to a unit of weight equal to 1/8 of an ounce. A dram shop became known as a place where liquor was sold. Generally, dram shop laws today refer to the liability of any establishment that sells alcohol to a minor or to someone who is visibly intoxicated, and then causes death or injury to a third party...

Bassinet Recall After Infant Deaths

Posted on August 29, 2008
The Consumer Product Safety Commission, along with six retailers, is recalling nearly 900,000 Simiplicity bassinets because of a strangling hazard. The recall follows the August death of an infant girl from Kansas who became entrapped between the bed's metal bars...

As Another Tropical Storm Approaches Florida- A Warning About Roads

Posted on August 28, 2008
Tropical Storm Fay, which just passed through our area, took a number of lives, including a teenage girl who was the head of her class as Paxon. In fact, four of the Faye deaths involved motorists were not wearing their seat belts. Now the Florida Highway Patrol is issuing safety tips as a precaution before Tropical Storm Gustav hits Florida...

Seven Deaths From Fay - Many Traffic Related

Posted on August 23, 2008
As tropic storm Fay leaves Florida she leaves seven deaths in her path. Many people lost their lives on our roads. Two men were in their vehicle Thursday morning when a tree fell on their car in Nassau County. The passenger, Roberto Constantino, 27, of Tijuana, Mexico died from the felled maple...

Uninsured Benefit From Right To Know Act

Posted on August 23, 2008
Beginning January 1, 2009, the Health Care Consumer's Right to Information Act will provide medical consumers with reliable and understandable information about health care charges so a patient can make an informed decision. The law is aimed at helping the uninsured patient who is seeking doctor or hospital services...

Doctors Learn To Apologize For Medical Mistakes

Posted on August 21, 2008
When the chief of staff at a Veterans Hospital in Tampa told the family of a man who died he was sorry, he broke the mold. Doctors rarely say they are sorry, even when they make horrible mistakes. There is a national movement afoot to change that. It's called Sorry Works! Coalition and its founder Doug Wojcieszak calls it a "massive cultural shift...

Motorists And Homeowners Need To Prepare For The Storm

Posted on August 18, 2008
With high winds from Hurricane Fay hitting Florida this week, motorists and homeowners are getting ready. The Department of Transportation reports that motorists are calling to find out if roads will be closed. Of particular concern are our many bridges that travel over water, as well as the new elevated flyovers that take cars high above the congestion below...

Allstate Settles With Florida Homeowner Rate Cut

Posted on August 15, 2008
Florida and Allstate Insurance have settled their differences and the news is good for consumers. The Northbrook, Illinois company is giving Florida homeowners an additional 5.6 percent rate cut, as part of a settlement. That means homeowners can expect a 19...

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