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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 May Make Seatbelt Law A Primary Enforcement Tool

Posted on March 15, 2009
The proposal to tighten seat belt requirements has never passed before. In Florida, not wearing your seat belt will get you an additional fine, if, and only if, you are pulled over for a traffic infraction. Now a proposal is on the table for Florida to join 25 other states that consider not wearing a seat belt a 'primary' enforcement law- meaning an officer could pull you over and give you a ticket just for not wearing your seat belt...

Super Speeder Fines Increase In Georgia

Posted on March 13, 2009
It may not pay to be a super speeder in Georgia. Those who drive fast on the state's highway are facing an increased fine of $200 that would accomplish two goals. First, to get speeders to slow down and secondly to fund the state's ailing network of hospitals that take trauma cases...

Two-Year-Old Killed In Driveway By SUV

Posted on March 13, 2009
This is a very sad story we keep reporting because unfortunately it keeps happening. On Tuesday afternoon, a 2-year-old girl died in her driveway when her father backed up his SUV and didn't see her. Kainaat M. Umnair was in the driveway at her parent's home on the Southside around 2 p...

Young Driver Distracted By Phone Pins Tree Trimmer

Posted on March 12, 2009
The 17-year-old girl was driving in the Ortega area. She tells law enforcement that she was distracted by her phone. 'Just glancing at it,' is how the reporter from Channel 4 describes it. Teens are notorious for texting, talking on the phone and generally being distracted by anything on the console, and they do not have the experience or reaction time that a more experienced driver might...

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Florida, California Lawsuits Over Smelly Wallboard

Posted on March 08, 2009
Florida may be the first state but is likely not the last state that has sulfur-tainted smelly wallboard manufactured in China that has residents moving out. A number of lawsuits are underway in Florida, the most recent filed in Miami claiming that a rotten egg small is corroding wiring in homes and electronics...

Negligent Property Owners Sued For Death Of Young Man

Posted on March 07, 2009
James and Cheryl Creech would do anything to see their 22-year-old son again. Antonio Creech was visiting his sister at the Eureka Gardens Apartments in Jacksonville, two days before Christmas 2007, when he was shot and killed along with another man. Now the couple has filed a negligence lawsuit against the property owner, Flagship Property Managers...

Jacksonville Sheriff Must Keep Roads Safe For The Public

Posted on March 05, 2009
Jacksonville Sheriff John Rutherford is asking the public for patience as a criminal probe tries to uncover what exactly happened that led to a collision between an officer's car and an 86-year-old man driving a truck. A much needed change in the police chase policy may result from the accident...

Lifejacket And Staying With Boat May Have Saved Rescued Boater

Posted on March 02, 2009

Who Does Limiting Attorney's Fees Eventually Hurt?

Posted on February 28, 2009

Florida's Motorcycle Deaths Drop Slightly, Still Tops Nation

Posted on February 28, 2009

Hot Police Pursuit Kills Citizen in Jacksonville

Posted on February 27, 2009

Luring Young Women To Smoke With Pink Campaign

Posted on February 27, 2009

Toddler Run Over By Unlicenced Teen Uncle

Posted on February 22, 2009
A tragic accident occurred Sunday afternoon when an unlicensed teenager got behind the wheel of a car. The 16-year-old was asked by his family to move the car after a church service at the Summerville Baptist Church near downtown Jacksonville. The teen intended to maneuver it to the front of the church...

School Bus Driver Kicks Kids Off

Posted on February 21, 2009
This Jacksonville school bus driver had simply had enough. Several Ribault Middle School students were messing around on the bus, threatening to open the emergency door on the back of the bus. A student, Kaylan Edem, admitted to Channel 4 that kids were disorderly and that students on the bus kept pulling the emergency handle...

Doctors Want To Protect Their Reputations

Posted on February 20, 2009
We’ve already warned consumers against signing binding arbitration documents when you go to the doctor’s office and are presented with a pile of paperwork to sign. Binding arbitration means you will never be able to sue a doctor if there is an unfortunate case of medical malpractice...

Florida Jury Awards $8 Million To Widow Of Smoker

Posted on February 18, 2009
Tobacco company, Philip Morris, was dealt a major blow Wednesday when a Fort Lauderdale jury awarded the widow of a smoker $8 million in damages. It took two days for the six jurors to deliver the favorable verdict to Elaine Hess. In 1997, her husband, Stuart Hess, died at the age of 55 of lung cancer after decades as a chain smoker...

Foreclosures Stopped At Two Florida Banks

Posted on February 15, 2009
With Florida leading the country as one of the top states for foreclosure, two banks here say they will stop foreclosures temporarily as the federal government tries to fix the housing crisis. Coral Gables-based BankUnited, along with BankAtlantic, will join Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Chase, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, and Bank of America which have all decided to temporarily halt foreclosures...

State Farm Plans Its Exit From Florida

Posted on February 14, 2009
State Farm is one step closer to pulling its property insurance policies out of the state. Florida’s Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty indicated the insurance giant should go and soon. “We do not believe that they can maintain trustworthiness and fitness to continue to do business in Florida...

Georgia Lures Industry With Promises Of Curtailing Civil Rights

Posted on February 12, 2009
This is reminiscent of what’s put Michigan on the map as the friendliest state for drug and device makers. In Michigan, drug companies enjoy immunity from prosecution. Imagine if you or I enjoyed such protection. Now Georgia is trying to entice the pharmaceutical and medical device industry to the state with a promise of protection...

Smoker Wins First Phase In Tobacco Trial

Posted on February 12, 2009
For those of us who have fought Big Tobacco for a long time, this was a much welcomed victory. On Thursday, a jury in Florida ruled that a smoker was addicted to cigarettes and that is what led to his death. It was a huge setback for Philip Morris and could forecast the future for thousands of cases in Florida waiting to go to trial...

North Florida Resident Puts State On Salmonella Map

Posted on February 08, 2009
It was always amazing that Florida was one of seven states that had dodged the bullet on the salmonella outbreak in the country - until now. A North Florida resident has shown signs of salmonella poisoning, according to the Florida Department of Health report on Wednesday...

Tracking Your Dangerous Teen Drivers - Literally

Posted on February 08, 2009
You may have seen them on the road. A teenager with their drivers license less than one year, speeding past, jamming their brakes on when someone doesn’t get out of their way, trying to drive around them and not being able to make it, jamming their brakes on again...

Auto Fraud Database Now Online

Posted on February 08, 2009
The U.S Department of Justice has put an auto database online to uncover fraud. The system will allow the state department of motor vehicles, law enforcement, and consumers to check a car’s title and history. The information will help consumers find out of a vehicle has been in an accident, was used to commit a crime or was stolen...

Can Mold Kill? Parents Say Yes and File Lawsuit Against Hospital

Posted on February 05, 2009
Can mold kill? The families of three young children say yes, and they’ve filed a lawsuit against St. Joseph’s Hospital accusing the hospital of failing to protect the leukemia patients from mold. The Tampa, Florida hospital was undergoing an expansion in 2008...

Stay Put An Answer To Foreclosure?

Posted on February 01, 2009
There is more and more conversation about this concept. As many Americans find they cannot stay in their homes because of job loss or a sub-prime loan that has now doubled, one Congresswoman is saying "stay put” in your own home. When Wall Street bought and sold mortgages as investments, they forgot to dot all of the "i's" and cross the "t's"...

State Farm Putting Profits Before People In Florida

Posted on January 31, 2009
State Farm property insurance wants to leave Florida for greener pastures. After major hurricanes in 2004 and 2005, State Farm Florida, a subsidiary of the insurance giant, says it will phase out offering property insurance to 1.2 million property owners within two years...

Florida's Most Dangerous Jobs

Posted on January 31, 2009
While the national picture for accidents and deaths on the job decreased by about six percent – Florida’s death rate for workplace fatalities stayed steady from 2006 - about 362 people lost their lives at work in 2007. What kind of jobs pose the greatest risk? Florida Trend breaks down the most dangerous jobs...

Seroquel Victory For AstraZeneca Which Says Bring Em On

Posted on January 28, 2009
AstraZeneca didn’t know what to expect. Thousands of cases are pending against its antipsychotic drug Seroquel, claiming it causes diabetes and weight gain. Wednesday, the company won dismissal of two lawsuits in central Florida. U.S. District Judge Anne Conway in Orlando ruled the cases, “Just didn’t meet the standards” to go to trial...

School Bus Wreck Hospitalizes Five

Posted on January 24, 2009
Wednesday after school, a North Florida school bus was taking kids home when a 16-year-old driver of a pickup truck failed to stop at an intersection and rear-ended the bus. Things could have been much worse. Four students on the bus were taken to Lake Butler Hospital...

Pedestrian Killed But Many Questions Unanswered

Posted on January 24, 2009
The Florida Highway Patrol reports that a young man walking on a Jacksonville road was hit and killed by a motorist early Friday morning. The man has been identified as Cammeron T. Nettles, 21. He was walking southbound on Blanding Boulevard near County Road 220 around 1:45 a...

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