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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

Mom Sentenced In Wreck That Killed Son

Posted on May 13, 2009
A Jacksonville mother has a long time to think about that day in March of 2008. She was speeding on a rain-slicked road, with her nine-year-old son in the car. Police estimate she may have been traveling in excess of 90 mph when she lost control of her car and hit a tree...

Speeding Public Officials Face Charges After Fatalities

Posted on May 08, 2009
They are sworn to protect the public, but instead these individuals are being charged with endangering it. Criminal charges will be filed against a Jacksonville Sheriff's officer and a Jacksonville Fire Rescue district chief. Both men were involved in speeding incidents that left two elderly men dead, in separate incidents...

Falling Television Kills Child

Posted on May 07, 2009
It was an incredibly sad story this week when little four-year-old Dymounique Wilson died after a television fell on her in her Jacksonville home. Wednesday night her mother, Samara Brinkley, put the little girl on her bed and as they watched television together, the mother dozed off...

Officer Drives SUV Over Woman In The Sand

Posted on May 02, 2009
The woman run over by a police SUV while she was lying on the sand is reported to be in critical condition. The Jacksonville Beach police officer was on patrol and driving a sport utility vehicle, a Chevrolet Trailblazer around 3:15 when he appeared to have turned around the area that 41-year-old Anne Marie Giffin of Jacksonville way laying...

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Tougher Seat Belt Laws In Florida

Posted on April 29, 2009
Ever since Dori Slosberg and Katie Marchetti died in separate auto accidents more than a decade ago, their parents felt their deaths had a higher purpose. Neither young woman was wearing a seat belt when they were killed. For 13 years, Irv Slosberg tried to get through the Florida legislature a bill that would allow police officers to pull over anyone who is not wearing a seat belt...

Boaters Rescued Off Coast Of Jacksonville

Posted on April 25, 2009
This time the story had a good ending. Six people were rescued in the Atlantic about 90 miles east of Jacksonville after their boat started to sink. Luckily for the group, a good Samaritan saw the boat with the six aboard as it was taking on water. He called the Coast Guard to aid in the rescue...

Mystery Compound That Killed Horses In Florida To Be Revealed

Posted on April 24, 2009
Early this week, the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine may release the name of the drug that killed 21 polo horses as they were getting ready to compete in a Florida match. The state is awaiting the result of toxicology reports on the animals that were buried last Thursday...

Drywall Lawsuit Filed In Florida

Posted on April 22, 2009
We have quite a problem in Florida for homeowners who unknowingly bought home with drywall made in China that emits gasses making people sick. A class-action lawsuit has now been brought in south Florida against homebuilder, Lennar on behalf of homeowners...

A Big Break For Big Tobacco Proposed In Florida

Posted on April 21, 2009
Big Tobacco may be receiving a shield from the Florida legislature. Right now there are about 8,000 sick smokers, former smokers, or survivors of smokers, who have sued the tobacco industry for making misleading claims and fraudulently marketing their product for years...

Auto Accident Takes Life Of Popular 15-Year-Old Girl

Posted on April 21, 2009
The community of Jacksonville is grieving the loss of 15-year-old Allison Haramis. She was killed Friday when the Lexus in which she was a passenger, hit the back of a tow truck on the Buckman Bridge. The driver was her 16-year-old friend, Alexander Lee...

Jacksonville Leads In State, National Foreclosure Rate

Posted on April 19, 2009
Jacksonville has the dubious distinction of exceeding state and federal rates for foreclosures. In fact, rates here have hit a five-year high. In March, foreclosure related notices were sent out to 2,721 homes in Jacksonville – a 29 percent increase from February...

Boat Driver Not Intoxicated In Easter Sunday Wreck That Killed Five

Posted on April 19, 2009
Blood alcohol has just come back on the person in the driver's seat of that Easter Sunday boating crash on the Intracoastal that left five people dead. There was a great deal of speculation that alcohol had some part to play, but the test came back on the 44-year old woman at 0...

SUV Driver Plows Into School Bus With 30 Aboard

Posted on April 16, 2009
An early morning rush led to the injury of six students when a school bus was struck by an SUV. Just after 9 a.m., police were called to the collision at the intersections of Firestone and Melvin Road in Jacksonville. While the bus had stopped at a flashing red light, then preceded into the intersection, police say the SUV failed to stop at the intersection and rammed into the side of the bus...

Fatal Boating Accident Grief And Tributes Pour In

Posted on April 16, 2009
It was a senseless loss of life on Easter Sunday. And the funerals are now underway. Three of the five killed Sunday on a boat in the Intracoastal area of Palm Valley south of Jacksonville are being laid to rest. The first funeral was held Thursday for 20-year-old Liz Rosenfeld a student at the University of North Florida...

Three Car Wreck Kills Two, Closes Dames Point Bridge

Posted on April 12, 2009
It was a tragic beginning to the Easter holiday for two drivers of SUVs. Both were killed Friday night on State Road 9A in Jacksonville in a three-vehicle wreck. It happened around 6:30 when, according to the Florida Highway Patrol, a 60-year-old driver was heading north onto the Dames Point Bridge behind the wheel of a red Suzuki, changed lanes and struck a southbound Toyota SUV head on...

The Fight To Cap Payday Loans

Posted on April 10, 2009
PayDay Loans. If you see them you should run the other way. Florida is among a few states that has tried to stop the abusive high interest loans. In the average scenario, a person takes out a high interest loan with phenomenal interest rates, up to 400 percent in some cases...

Florida Attorney General Sues Man For Caylee Doll, Vick Chew Toys And Deceptive Practices

Posted on April 09, 2009
It is the utmost in bad taste and proof that there are bad people among us. Apparently the Florida Attorney General agrees. The Jacksonville businessman who created toys in the image of slain 2-year-old, Caylee Anthony, and chew toys resembling former NFL player Michael Vick who raised fighting pit bulls, has been sued...

Texting Truck Driver Arresting After Hitting School Bus

Posted on April 07, 2009
Seven months after a school bus erupted into flames, killing one student aboard, the driver of an 18-wheeler that caused the crash has finally been arrested. 30-year-old Reinaldo Gonzales turned himself into the Florida Highway Patrol today. He was booked in the Marion County jail in Ocala, Florida charged with vehicular homicide and reckless driving with serious bodily injury...

Leaving Kids In Cars - Please Stop This Fatal Distraction

Posted on April 05, 2009
Already this year two little ones have been left in cars by inattentive adults to die in the sweltering heat. It's called hyperthermia and in Florida heat stroke can happen in a very short time. If you think it cannot happen to you because you are an attentive adult, that's probably true, But it has happened to other attentive, responsible adults...

Medtronic Defibrillator Lead Linked to 13 Deaths

Posted on April 03, 2009
An independent panel of physicians now says the death count from the Medtronic Sprint Fidelis cardiac wire is closer to 13, more than the five deaths the company previously revealed. Last month, the company told doctors about the increased number of patient deaths and suggested that leaving the lead intact was perhaps the best choice for the majority of patients...

When It Might Be Okay Not To Ticket A Speeder

Posted on April 02, 2009
This sounds like an April Fools joke but unfortunately it isn't. If there is ever an excuse to drive fast, I can't think of a better one than driving your wife to the hospital who is in labor. That's exactly what Kyle Nordman was doing when an officer pulled him over...

DUI Manslaughter Charges for NFL Player

Posted on April 01, 2009
His Bentley was the car that hit a pedestrian crossing a Miami causeway. There is no dispute about that. The question that lingered concerned the outcome of a blood alcohol test. Now that's back and now Cleveland Browns wide receiver, Donte Stallworth, is facing DUI manslaughter charges...

Florida Considers Banning Tanning Beds For Teens

Posted on March 27, 2009
It's hard to believe that in the Sunshine State people pay to go into a tanning booth to get sun exposure. But they do, including kids who want to get ready for spring break or a cheerleading competition. So state lawmakers have filed anti-tanning legislation that would ban those under the age of 16 from being able to go to a tanning bed...

Parental Waivers - Should They Be Enforcable?

Posted on March 27, 2009
Take a visit to Disney World and parents may be asked to sign pre-injury waivers so their children can participate in boat rentals, horseback riding or any other potentially dangerous activity. SeaWorld uses them too in its Discovery Cove before you swim with the dolphins...

Woman Killed In Rollover Trying To Avoid Motorcycle

Posted on March 26, 2009
Charges are pending against a motorcyclist who sped up on the back of a woman's car causing her to lose control and die in a rollover. According to the Florida Highway Patrol 32-year-old Vanessa Parker Sinclair, who was eight months pregnant, was on I-95 near the intersection of State Road A1A in Nassau County north of Jacksonville around 3 pm last Saturday...

NFL Player Hits, Kills Florida Man Crossing Street

Posted on March 25, 2009
Mario Reyes, 59, of Miami was rushing to his work as a construction crane operator. It was about 7:15 in the morning on March 14. Reyes crossed the six-lane MacArthur Causeway, near a crosswalk. That's when he was hit by a Bentley being driven by Cleveland Browns wide received, Donte Stallworth...

Motorcycle Passenger Hit By Falling Ladder

Posted on March 22, 2009
This would certainly qualify as a freak accident. A passenger on a motorcycle traveling in the Jacksonville area was hit by a ladder that fell from a pickup truck. The 59-year old woman is in the hospital with critical head injuries. The Florida Highway Patrol says the female passenger was sitting a bit higher than the driver of the Harley on which they were riding, and that's why she took the brunt of the hit...

Mortgage Fraud - Florida Second In The Nation

Posted on March 21, 2009
Mortgage fraud is on the rise, with Florida a hotbed of fraudulent activity by people trying to get money from a lender. A Mortgage Asset Research Institute report puts Florida at second in the nation for fraud reported in 2008 (Rhode Island was first)...

Tractor-Trailer Hits School Bus With Students Onboard In Downtown Jacksonville

Posted on March 19, 2009
This is a story that could have had a much worse ending. A tractor-trailer rear-ended a school bus on a field trip in downtown Jacksonville this morning. The kids from Lake Forest Elementary were going to the Cummer Museum of Art. Ten students had to be transported to local hospitals to be checked out...

Curbing House Parties - The Party's Over Campaign

Posted on March 16, 2009
Just on the verge of spring break, 'The Party's Over' campaign has been launched in St. Johns County, south of Jacksonville, by Sheriff David Shoar. Underage drinking has gotten out of hand in the county, he says, pointing to the death of two teens in Orangedale in January, blamed on a house party where alcohol was served to minors...

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