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Discussion of personal injury law and legal issues, with Florida focus.
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Gas Hike Resulting in Motorcycle Accident Hike

Posted on June 25, 2008
Emergency room doctors are seeing more motorcycle injuries as the price of gasoline rides higher. The ER at University of Florida at Shands has seen a hike of more than 37 percent in motorcycle accidents so far this spring, says Dr. Richard Crass, an emergency room physician...

Florida Man Guilty of Mortgage Scam

Posted on June 21, 2008
Florida Man Guilty of Mortgage Scam By Eddie Farah on June 21, 2008 An Orlando man, Robert Guest, 44, pled guilty in Alabama to one felony count of conspiracy in a scheme that involved the purchase and reselling of more than 200 homes, many in Florida...

Tomato Salmonella Scare Hits Florida Hard

Posted on June 20, 2008
Just take a look at the FDA's list of states from which you can safely buy tomatoes not tainted with salmonella Saintpaul. At last look, Florida was the only state broken up by counties. The FDA is concentrating its investigation on Mexico and Florida, specifically south and central Florida, which was the source of the last few salmonella outbreaks, and which was in the middle of harvesting when the salmonella cases began being reported in mid-April...

Another Train Collision Takes A Life

Posted on June 20, 2008
Last month, a high school football hero died when he was struck by a CSX train in Clay County, outside of Jacksonville. Now another person was killed this morning when a freight train struck their car Friday morning. It happened just before 11 a.m...

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OSHA Cites Jacksonville's T2 Laboratories For December Explosion

Posted on June 18, 2008
It was a blast that was seen for miles away. Last December 19th, a chemical plant on the Northside of Jacksonville exploded. Four people were killed and many were injured. The hazardous-materials teams from all over the area were called to the "hellish inferno" that was the T2 Laboratories site...

Truck Driver Gets 7 Years for 7 Child Deaths

Posted on June 14, 2008
Truck Driver Gets 7 Years for 7 Child Deaths by Eddie Farah This was one of the most horrible truck accidents this area can remember. On January 25th, 2006, a tractor-trailer driver reportedly fell asleep behind the wheel and drove his trailer into a car full of Lake Butler children waiting in a car for a school bus...

Girls Drowns At Pool Party While Florida Lags In Pool Safety Standards

Posted on June 14, 2008
Girls Drowns At Pool Party While Florida Lags In Pool Safety Standards by Eddie Farah These are the sorts of stories we hear far too oftenin the summer. Florida leads the nation in the number of children who drown in swimming pools. Our condolences go out to the family of a six-year-old girl drowned at a pool party in the Arlington section of Jacksonville this Saturday...

Prescriptions Killed More Floridians Than Street Drugs In 2007

Posted on June 14, 2008
Prescriptions Killed More Than Street Drugs In 2007 By Eddie Farah on June 14, 2008 A report released this week by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Medical Examiner's Commission, concludes that prescription drugs killed more Floridians in 2007 than illegal drugs...

CSX Train Lawsuit Follows Teen Death On Trestle

Posted on June 13, 2008
CSX Train Lawsuit Follows Teen Death On Trestle byEddie Farah A 17-year old Clay County High School football player, Wesley Whiddon Jr., who was struck and killed by a train lastmonth, was doing what many people in the Black Creek area regularly do -- fish from the railroad bridge...

Jacksonville's Dubious Distinction

Posted on June 07, 2008
Here's something the city is not going to be adding to its Chamber of Commerce brochures. The city's infant mortality rate continues to be the highest in Florida. The black community of Jacksonville has nearly twice the infant deaths of white families, according to the Jacksonville Community Council Inc...

Dry Drowning Warning For Parents

Posted on June 06, 2008
The death of a 10-year-old boy from South Carolina this week while lying in his own bed, has brought attention to the little known "dry drowning." Johnny Jackson had gone for a swim in his neighborhood and walked home with his mother. He seemed fine except that his mother says he soiled himself, and then started talking slowly...

Two Charged In Teen Car Crash In Ocala Fly-In Community

Posted on June 04, 2008
Last January, five young men in an expensive car, took a fast ride on a runway in an exclusive fly-in community in Ocala, Florida before crashing and killing everyone in the car. Thefly-in community of Jumbolair Aviation Estates is the same place where actor John Travolta lives and flies in to park his jet in central Florida...

OSHA Fines Downtown Contractors After Garage Collapse Kills One

Posted on June 04, 2008
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined three downtown Jacksonville contractors for design and construction flaws that caused the December 6th collapse of the Berkman Plazaparking garage. The major construction accidentkilled one and injured 20 other workers...

Expiration Dates for Tires May Be Good Idea

Posted on May 31, 2008
Many Florida drivers may be driving on tires prone to fall apart because of the effect of heat and humidity on older tires. Just last year, a government report prepared by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) concluded that 84% of crashes caused by tires involved tires more than six years old...

Bridge Improvements Increase Speed, Accidents

Posted on May 31, 2008
The newly renovated Mathews Bridge is one of seven main bridges going into Jacksonville, Florida. Recently it underwent a major renovation that toned down the bumps of the grated surface, which felt like you were driving on a corregated surface, and replaced it witha lightweight decking material, similar to what is used on aircraft carriers...

Drivers of Big-Rigs Beware!

Posted on May 31, 2008
The division that licenses truckers , the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, says you cannot use the drug Chantix to help kick the habit. The same applies to airline pilots and air traffic controllers, per the Federal Aviation Administration...

Parents- Think Twice About Hosting a Graduation Bash

Posted on May 29, 2008
As school wraps up in Florida, graduates and their parents are looking forward to the summer, sleeping in, barbeques, pool parties and beer- soaked rampages. Parents might consider passing on the latter. Graduation parties for high school students are fine, but most partygoers are under the age of 21 and that can mean anything but a fun time for parents...

Big-Rigs May Get Ever Larger

Posted on May 29, 2008
Americans are frightened by big-rigs on our highways. at 80,000 pounds that is understandable. A poll taken byLake Research Partners, finds that 66 percent of drivers oppose a proposal to allow bigger trucks carrying heavier loads on the highways...

High School Football Hero Was No Match For Train

Posted on May 23, 2008
Mourners from Orange Park, Florida said goodbye this week to a Clay County, Florida athlete killed in a train accident. Wes Whiddon, 17, and two friends were fishing from a train trestle right next to SR 220. A CSX train approach. All three of the teens tried to get out of the way but Whiddon could not...

Click It or Ticket Campaign Aimed At Young Drivers

Posted on May 22, 2008
It's called the "Click It or Ticket Campaign" and it is designed to crack down on young drivers and passengers who don't think they need to wear a seat belt during nighttime driving. For some reason, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finds that teens and young drivers just don't seem to buckle up at night...

Joyride Leads to Day Care Closure

Posted on May 19, 2008
It might have been a fun ride to Chuck E. Cheese for little 1-4 year-old toddlers, but the ride has ended in a Jacksonville day care center, Kids Creations and More receiving a notice of intent to have its license revoked. The problem is a van meant for 15 had about 38 kids onboard...

Day Care Center Facing Closing After Wild Field Trip

Posted on May 16, 2008
You would hope that your children are safe while in day care. Apparently not. In this case, the Kid's Creations and More took the little kids, ages 1-4, on a field trip to Chuck E. Cheese. Because they only have one van, they packed nearly 40 kids into a van that seats only 15...

Vioxx Has $32 Million Award Overturned

Posted on May 14, 2008
It was a huge win for a victim of Vioxx. In 2001, Leonel Garza suffered a fatal heart attack after a month on the painkiller Vioxx. In 2006, his widow was awarded a $32 million judgment by a Texas jury. But leave it to the caps on punitive awards to have that reduced to $8...

Mother Accused of DUI In Crash That Killed Son

Posted on May 14, 2008
The mother of a teenage boy killed in a car wreck has been arrested for causing his death while drinking and driving. 31-year old Angela Harper has been taken into custody for the accident last April 18th. Harper was driving her son and five of his friends...

One Million Enrolled in Emergency Contact Information System

Posted on May 13, 2008
When 22-year-old Tiffiany Olson was involved in a motorcycle crash in 2005, it took six hours for her mother, Christine, to find out where she was. That was time she could have spent with her dying daughter. Now thanks to the efforts of Christine, the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles says that a million people have enrolled in the Florida's Emergency Contact Information System (ECI)...

Niceville Florida Turkey Crosses the Road, Causes Auto Accidents

Posted on May 10, 2008
Why was the turkey crossing the road? It's not a riddle, it was a real life nightmare this weekend for a truck driver. Defensive driving means you are ready for any situation. But a turkey hitting your windshield? That's what happened in Niceville, Florida in Okaloosa County, Florida in the Panhandle near Eglin Air Force Base...

Jet Ski Accident Kills One Teens, Leaves Another Critical

Posted on May 10, 2008
wo teenagers riding on a personal watercraft Saturday collided with a small boat in the Jacksonville area waters. The 19-year-old man was killed and an 18-year-old woman seriously injured. No one in the boat on Durbin Creek was injured. When a boater tried to come to the rescue of the two victims, he went to the Julington Creek boat ramp, about two miles from the accident...

The State of Florida Wants You To Quit!

Posted on May 08, 2008
The state of Florida is spending about 58 million to get you to kick the habit. Any Floridian who qualified because of income can obtain the stop smoking aids for up to eight weeks. Call 1-877-822-6669 for the free nicotine patches, gum and lozenges...

Head-On Driver Wreck May Have Been Intentional

Posted on May 07, 2008
A four-vehicle wreck south of Fernandina Beach killed two and injured four others Wednesday. Police say that the wreck may have been intentional. Just after 1:30 pm, a pickup truck being driven north on state Road 200 crossed the median...

Pro Bono Hours On The Decline In Florida

Posted on May 03, 2008
Are Florida's lawyers spending less time helping those who cannot afford to pay? The Florida Bar, reports that the number of hours Florida lawyers donate to the poor every year is on the decline, especially when you consider the growing number of new lawyers that graduate every year...

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