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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

Teen Faces Nine Charges in Fatal Wreck

Posted on August 28, 2009
Friday night's exhibition football game was a sad one for some parents of students at Ed White High School in Jacksonville. Four teenagers, who were part of a group who cut school on the last day, and died in a wreck, were remembers by the entire school in attendance...

More Women Driving Drunk Focus of Labor Day Crackdown

Posted on August 23, 2009
A new study shows that women are increasingly being pulled over for driving under the influence or DUI. The Transportation Department reports the number of women arrested for DUI has jumped nearly 30 percent over the last ten years, while the number of men arrested for DUI fell 7...

JaxPort Employee Injured On The Job 110 Feet Up

Posted on August 19, 2009
An industrial accident at the Jacksonville Port Authority led to a dramatic but successful rescue for one injured employee. The unidentified man was working on a 110 foot crane Monday night doing routine maintenance along with six other men, when he suffered a severe back injury...

Cash For Clunkers - Good Riddance Rollovers

Posted on August 13, 2009
First Coast car dealers in Jacksonville seem to be moving ahead with the 'Cash for Clunkers' program despite the questions about depleted funds. The government has approved more money to keep the program rolling for the time being. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will be administering the program and the official website you can check to see if your car qualifies - http://www...

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Construction Worker Painting Lines Hit, Killed By SUV

Posted on August 12, 2009
People who work on our roads often wear brightly colored neon vests and helmets. That is what 37-year-old Cary Fraser was wearing, but it didn't help him to be more visible to a driver of an SUV Tuesday morning. The Nissan Xterra, driven by 42-year-old Michael O'Hara stopped after hitting Fraser, but it was too late, he died at the scene...

Three Injured In ATV Accident In North Florida

Posted on August 09, 2009
One man is in critical condition in North Florida following an all terrain vehicle (ATV) crash Sunday morning. St. Johns County deputies are trying to figure out what caused the Arctic Cat recreational vehicle to overturn on a private dirt road on Bartram Air Park property off County Road 13 in northwest St...

Officers Escorting Harley Dealer Funeral Collide

Posted on August 08, 2009
The irony is pretty amazing. Six officers on motorcycles, escorting a funeral for the late motorcycle dealer, Bruce Rossmeyer in Ormond Beach, Florida, Tuesday, were involved in a crash. The officers, from various agencies, were riding along with the funeral party when the lead rider slowed down...

Chinese Drywall Victims Target White House

Posted on August 06, 2009
Tirzah Pestenski would like President Obama to come over to her house. She even plans to place a call to the White House to see if he'd like coffee or tea. She is not just being sociable. Pestenski wants the president to see her custom home in Port St...

Rollover Kills Teen In Back Of Pickup

Posted on July 28, 2009
A 16-year-old high school girl was killed early Monday morning when a pickup truck in which she was riding along with six others over corrected, then struck a curb and overturned. Miranda Zant, a student at Lee High School was thrown from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene...

Florida Fire Marshall Suspects Chinese Drywall Could Be Flammable

Posted on July 26, 2009
As if the problems with the foul smell coming from Chinese drywall in some Florida homes is not problem enough - now we learn that the state Fire Marshal's Office and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are testing to see if the toxic drywall contributes to fires...

Floridians Get Three Moving Violations Then Lose License

Posted on July 24, 2009
A new law in Florida should send reckless drivers back to driving school. Beginning January 1, any driver who is convicted of three moving violations that led to a crash during a three-year-period will lose their license. It could happen for offenses such as reading a newspaper while driving 65 mph to work, or texting while driving, anything that takes your attention off of the road and leads to a crash...

Disney Discovery Denied In Monorail Death

Posted on July 16, 2009
Lawyers representing the mother of the 21-year-old pilot of a Disney monorail ,who died July 5, have been denied the opportunity to inspect all of the evidence into the death of Austin Wuennenberg. The evidence would include video from surveillance cameras on the platform at the time of the crash as well as any audio communication or black box data recorders from the platform...

Florida Trooper Three Others Injured In Pile-Up

Posted on July 15, 2009
A Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) trooper and three others were injured in an early morning crash on Interstate 4 Monday. Driver Jack Duran, 45, of Orlando, was behind the wheel of a tractor-trailer traveling westbound when the FHP says he approached a construction zone around 2 a...

Mother And Child Drown in Jacksonville Pool

Posted on July 09, 2009
There are many questions surrounding the drowning death of a young mother and her baby in an Arlington community pool on Wednesday. Tiffany Sue Cecconi, 18, and her 18-month-old daughter, Kaylani, were found just after noon in a subdivision pool. The pool area is usually locked...

Jacksonville - Most Crashes In Florida In 2008

Posted on July 08, 2009
Just how are we doing as a state in regard to highway fatalities? A new report issued from the Florida Highway Patrol compiled crash data from around the state for 2008. Unbelievably- Jacksonville was the top city for the number of crashes in Florida, even topping Miami by about 50 percent...

Two Federal Investigations Into Disney

Posted on July 07, 2009
With Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) already conducting a probe, now the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has announced it too will examine the fatal monorail collision that took the life of a young train operator at Disney World in Orlando Sunday morning...

Buckle Up On The Boat This Holiday Weekend

Posted on July 02, 2009
A warning before you head out this July 4th weekend on the coastal or Intracoastal Florida waters – The Coast Guard says this holiday is the deadliest one for Florida boaters. The Coast Guard, as well as Florida Fish and Wildlife, will be out patrolling the waterways this Independence Day holiday...

Deputy and Girlfriend Hurt In ATV Accident

Posted on June 27, 2009
A Baker County, Florida deputy and his girlfriend were riding their all-terrain vehicle last Sunday night when they went off the road and hit a tree in the Osceola National Forest. Deputy Matt Sigers was a bit roughed up but was treated at the hospital and released...

Nurse Hit-and-Run Victim Outside Hospital, Suspect Arrested

Posted on June 24, 2009
Police in Jacksonville have arrested a man they say is responsible for hitting a nurse outside of Shands Hospital Sunday night, then driving off. The victim, Karen Elaine Hanel, 54, was hit as she was reporting to work and walking in a crosswalk outside the hospital around 7 p...

Police Report On Little Girl Left In Vehicle To Die

Posted on June 21, 2009
The St. Johns County Sheriff's department is releasing details about what happened to a one-year-old who was left inside a car to die. On Sunday, June 14, Arianna Long was left in the automobile after her father dropped the mother off at work. It was very early in the morning...

Fourth Student Dies After Ford Explorer Rollover

Posted on June 21, 2009
Last week we told you about a horrible accident on the last day of school. Nine teenagers decided going to the beach, so they cut school and crammed into a 1997 Ford Explorer. On their way to the beach, a tire either detreaded or blew, and the 15-year-old driver lost control of the car and it rolled...

Florida Hit-And-Run Driver Arrested

Posted on June 14, 2009
This is an accident that had the potential for a very bad ending. Friday night, 16-year-old Allison Almon was walking her two dogs when someone hit her from behind with their vehicle and left the scene and Almon in the road. It happened on Cornell Road in St...

Are Red-Light Cameras At Intersections A Good Idea?

Posted on June 13, 2009
Red-light runners be warned. The city council of Orange Park near Jacksonville will soon have a candid camera to watch your every move into those intersections that aren't quite green. We've all seen drivers who run a yellow or red light - sometimes speeding up to make it even more dangerous...

Three Teens Mourned After I-295 Wreck

Posted on June 07, 2009
The teens were celebrating the end of the school year and cutting school. Nine kids from Ed White High School in Jacksonville got into a 1997 Ford Explorer and headed to the beach Friday morning. Today their family and friends are mourning the death of three and the injury of six others after the SUV rolled several times and crashed on I-295 Friday morning...

FAA Must Pay $3.75 Million For Doomed Flight Instructions

Posted on June 04, 2009
The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to pay $3.75 million after it gave faulty landing instructions during an emergency in December 2005. Pilot Gary Tillman of Rome, Georgia, his daughter, Hannah, and her friend Anna Kipp died in the Atlantic off Vilano Beach when the FAA told the plane with engine trouble to fly to the St...

Foster Kids Put On Drugs At Alarming Rates

Posted on May 31, 2009
A new report by the state finds that hundreds of kids in foster care have been placed on psychiatric drugs by their caregivers in Northeast Florida. What's especially shocking is that no one gave authority for these drugs to be used on the children, and most of the drugs are not even approved for use in children...

New Policy For Beach-Driving Leaves Public Vulnerable

Posted on May 28, 2009
We reported earlier this month about a Jacksonville Beach police SUV that accidentally ran over a woman who was sunbathing. She was in very critical condition and is just now able to speak. The professional musician, 41-year old Ann Marie Giffin was pulled out from under the SUV semi-conscious and bleeding from her head...

Three-Year-Old Dies In Lake City Pool As Swim Season Begins

Posted on May 21, 2009
A three-year-old child drowned Sunday afternoon, May 17, in a swimming pool in the back yard of a home in Lake City. He was scooped from the pool and taken to a local hospital where was pronounced dead. The Columbia County Sheriff's office calls it a tragic accident...

Floridians Receive Confirmation of Defective Chinese-Made Wallboard

Posted on May 20, 2009
Reports of sulfur smelling homes and corroded wiring have been coming into the Florida Department of Health since December. Now there is official federal confirmation that the Chinese-made wallboard, used in upward of 100,000 homes nationwide, is defective...

NTSB Investigation Into Flight That Killed Jacksonville Law Student

Posted on May 14, 2009
Jacksonville has a connection to the airline crash that is the focus of a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearing. A local law student was one of the 49 passengers aboard who died when Continental Flight 3407 crashed February 12th in Buffalo, New York...

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