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Last Entry: March 27, 2011 at 23:39:08

Happy Veteran's Day - We Salute Our Armed Services

Posted on November 11, 2010
Today is Veteran's Day. We salute all of the men and women who served the Country in the Armed Services. We remember those that bravely gave their lives in service of freedom for our country. We also give special thanks to the active duty servicemen and women who are currently overseas...

How to Survive a Car Wreck Sinking In The Water

Posted on November 09, 2010
We are surrounded by water in Florida. It is almost impossible to drive on the roads and not be exposed to the dangers of your car somehow being sent into a canal. Recently, four South Florida high school students escaped a sinking car that landed in an Indian River County canal...

Bad Drugs need to taken off the shelf

Posted on November 08, 2010
Bad Drugs need to taken off the shelf: Acutane, Yaz, Yasmin, Ocella It is incredible that young women are still taking Yaz or Yasmin or Ocella. All we hear about these drugs are bad, bad, bad. Given all of the issues, I do not understand why they are still on the market...

Safety Tips: Daylight Savings Time and Increased Traffic Accidents

Posted on November 06, 2010
Driver and Pedestrian Risks Increase As Daylight Saving Time Ends On Sunday, November 7, 2010 , we gain an hour as clocks are turned back and daylight saving time ends. We encourage all drivers and pedestrians to be more attentive on the highways...

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DUI is a serious issue - Traffic Fatalities Increase with DUI

Posted on November 05, 2010
Driving while intoxicated or under the influence of alcohol is dangerous and can harm to innocent people. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), "A motor vehicle crash is considered to be alcohol-related if at least one driver involved in the crash is determined to have a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of ...

$20 Million settlement for Brain Injury Victim in Truck Accident

Posted on November 04, 2010
The family of a toddler who suffered a severe brain injury in a freak traffic accident will get $20 million in a personal injury lawsuit. The personal injury setlement will cover a lifetime of care for a 4½-year-old Appleton girl who functions at the level of a 2-year-old after she was struck in the head by a pipe that came loose from the truck accident that involved the mother's van and the truck...

Broward Bus Crash sends 8 people to Hospital with Injuries

Posted on November 02, 2010
Eight people were sent to the hospital after they were injured in a Florida Bus Accident involving a Broward County Transit bus and a vehicle on Monday morning. One person is reported to have serious injuries, and the others only minor injuries per reports...

Depuy Orthopaedics Hip Replacement Recall

Posted on November 01, 2010
DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., a division of Johnson and Johnson is voluntarily recalling its ASR hip replacement system after receiving reports that a higher-than-normal number of patients required surgeries to correct or remove defective implants...

A negligence suit against 4-Yr-old can proceed - per Judge in Bicycle Case

Posted on October 29, 2010
In an unusual negligence case, a judge rules that a case involving a 4-year old on a bicycle and an elderly woman can proceed. The case happened two years ago in Manhattan. Two 4-year olds, riding bicycles with training wheels on a New York Sidewalk, struck down an elderly 87-year-old woman, who died three days later as a result of injuries...

Lowe's offers up to $100,000 to drywall victims - with a few stipulations

Posted on October 29, 2010
Drywall victims that purchased the tainted drywall from Lowe's Corporation are now eligible for up to $100,000 in cash according to legal documents on Thursday. Under the previous settlement, Lowe's drywall customers were eligible for a maximum of a $2,000 gift card plus $2,500 in cash, providing they had a receipt or a credit card statement showing that the drywall was purchased at Lowe's...

Ford Owners issued A Warning By NHTSA Regarding Faulty Systems That Pose Fire Risk

Posted on October 26, 2010
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued a warning to FORD owners regarding faulty cruise control systems. Ford owners are encouraged to visit a Ford dealer for repairs of affected vehicles. If not properly repaired, the Ford vehicles can catch fire, even if they are turned off, parked and unattended...

GlaxoSmithKline to pay $750 million for defective drugs

Posted on October 26, 2010
GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical makers, has agreed to pay $750 million for allegedly selling dangeroua and improperly made drugs. GSK plead guilty to allegations that a formerly owned plant in Cidra, Puerto Rico churned out medications that were mislabeled, mixed up in the wrong packaging, and even defective -- made either too weak or too strong...

Cruise Line Employee Charged with Burglarizing Passengers

Posted on October 15, 2010
Recently it was reported in newspapers across South Florida that a Royal Caribbean Cruise Line employee was using her job position to ascertain the names and addresses of people for whom she had booked vacations. She would pass the names of the customers, their addresses and vacation dates along to her husband and his conspirators so that the RCL customers' homes could be broken into and burglarized...

13,792 Evenflo Maestro Child Safety Seats Recalled for Safety Issues

Posted on October 15, 2010
Evenflo Inc. has issued a recall involving 13,792, Evenflo Maestro child safety seats. In the event of a crash, a crack could form at the front of the seat, adjacent to the harness adjuster, causing the child to be improperly restrained. The recall involves child seats with model numbers beginning with 310...

Water Taxi Accident at Seattle Pier Injures Seven People

Posted on September 27, 2010
A water taxi slammed into a pier Sunday in Seattle, Washington, injuring at least seven people. According to the U.S. Coast Guard rescue workers responded to the boating accident that happened shortly before noon on Sunday. The vessel slammed into historic Pier 50, also known as the Washington Street Public Boat Landing Facility...

Maritime Attorney Mark Hanson discusses cruise injuries and boating safety on SFBR

Posted on September 18, 2010
Florida Maritime Attorney, Mark. R. Hanson, discusses admiralty & maritime law, passenger's rights, cruise injuries, and boating safety with South Florida Business Report producer David Weir. As a Maritime Attorney with many years of experience handling cruise industry issues, Mr...

Crunching the Numbers on Highway Safety - 2009 traffic Stats

Posted on September 17, 2010
The National Highway Safety Traffic report had some surprising statistical findings this year, particularly regarding fatalities. The organization's summary of statistical findings stated that fatalities from highway traffic accidents were down to levels not seen since 1950...

Drowsy Driving: You snooze you lose

Posted on September 16, 2010
On September 6, 2008, eight year-old Ronshay Dugan was riding in the back of a Boys and Girls Club bus when the drowsy driver of a cement truck slammed into the bus. Ronshay later died of head trauma. Though it may have seemed like too little, too late to those who loved Ronshay Dugan, Florida state representative Alan Williams created and helped pass the Ronshay Dugan Act in 2010, which includes an annual Drowsy Driving Prevention Week at the beginning of September...

New Research on danger of cell phone conversations for distracted drivers

Posted on September 15, 2010
Approximately 1.6 million traffic accidents happen on roads across the U.S. because people are talking on cell phones. Studies show that eight in ten Americans admit to driving while on their cell phones. A report by The Harvard Mental Health Letter found that talking on a cell phone while driving is more dangerous than talking to a passenger in the car...

Toytota moves to dismiss hundreds of Suddn-Acceleration lawsuits

Posted on September 15, 2010
Toyota Motor Corp. urged a U.S. judge to dismiss mass consumer lawsuits over sudden-acceleration claims relating to its vehicles. The company accuses plaintiffs' attorneys of using anecdotal evidence and failing to identify specific defects in its vehicles...

Toytota moves to dismiss hundreds of Sudden-Acceleration lawsuits

Passenger Bus hits pickup truck and injures 4 in Palm Beach County

Posted on September 13, 2010
A Palm Beach County traffic accident involving a Church-Bus and a pickup truck injured four people after the bus lost control and struck the pickup truck over the weekend. The accident happened in Lake Worth on Federal Highway and South Eighth Avenue...

Ford Explorer Lawsuit awards family $131 million in death of NY Mets Pitcher Brian Cole

Posted on September 04, 2010
Rarely do I get a chance to discuss baseball on our Injury Law Blog. The following case regarding recent verdict in the wrongful death of a NY Mets Pitcher presented the perfect opportunity. A Miss. jury awarded the family of Brian Cole a $131 million verdict in the wrongful death lawsuit involving a Ford UV Rollover...

Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act of 2009

Posted on July 29, 2010
In the past several year cruises have become a popular, affordable and a fun way to travel. It seems that you cannot watch television for a half hour without seeing at least one commercial for a cruise line. In fact there are approximately two hundred (200) over night, ocean going cruise vessels world- wide averaging two-thousand (2,000) passengers and a crew of almost a thousand (1,000) crew members...

City is not liable for failing to check user skills before fatal jet ski crash

Posted on July 03, 2010
The Appellate court ruled that a shore town's law requiring personal watercraft operators to complete an approved boat safety course does not hold a city liable in the death of Jet ski User. In the wrongful death action on behalf of a 16-year-old girl who perished when her Jet Ski hit an Ocean City, N...

Boating Accident on Lake St. Clair kills one and injures six

Posted on July 03, 2010
The Holiday weekend continues to be deadly for boaters on the water. In a tragic boating accident accident on Lake St. Clair, one person was killed and six others hurt, after two boats collided around 1:00 am. The Sheriff's Department is investigating the boating accident and will reconstruct the accident to determine what went wrong in the water...

Man charged with manslaughter for fatal boat crash near statue of liberty

Posted on July 03, 2010
Intoxication while operating a boat is never acceptable under any circumstances. On Friday two boaters on separate water crafts went out for an early Fourth of July celebration. Unfortunately for 30-year old Puthuvamkunnath, he will never get this opportunity again...

Fatal wreck on I-95 kills one and critically injures three

Posted on June 25, 2010
A tragic auto accident on Interstate 95 in Boynton Beach involving special needs passenger kills one person and leaves three others in critical condition. The fatal auto accident happened Wednesday involving an 18 year old from Lake Worth driver that swerved and hit a passenger van carrying special needs individuals...

Do we feel bad for BP or the victims of the Deep Horizon Oil Spill?

Posted on June 18, 2010
BP is being asked to establish a $20,000,000 fund to provide relief for the victims of the oil disaster! Can you believe it? $20 Billion! That is about one tenth of the damages they have caused. That is only one year of profit for the company...

79 year old SUV driver crashes into West Palm Beach home after gunfight

Posted on June 10, 2010
Early morning driving in West Palm Beach has become more dangerous. West Palm Beach resident Myra Hudson was asleep in her home with her grandson and daughter when she was awakened by the sound of a loud crash. Amazingly, the crash was that of 79-year-old man crashing his SUV into her home...

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