A sharply-divided body ruled that limits which “arbitrarily reduce damage awards for plaintiffs who suffer the most drastic injuries” are unconstitutional. Former Gov. Jeb Bush called the Legislature into special session three times before lawmakers eventually approved caps as low as $100,000. Typically, the maximum was $500,000 for serious cases and $1 million for “catastrophic” [...]
A pair of officer-involved crashes in Orange County sent at least three people to the hospital with various injuries. The first occurred around 3:15 p.m. near the intersection of State Road 408 and Kirkman Road. Moments after receiving a distress call, an Orange County Sheriff's deputy activated the car’s emergency lights and got in position [...]
A suspected drunk driver travelling the wrong way on State Road 417 slammed into another vehicle, critically injuring its driver. The force of the collision pushed a 2015 Nissan into the path of a trailing Camaro. First responders rushed the victim to a nearby hospital; the other driver was treated at the scene. The driver [...]
A 42-year-old man will spend at least the next four years in prison after he plead guilty to charges stemming from a hit-and-run crash that killed a fifth-grade bicyclist. The man hit a 10-year-old girl as he exited a drugstore parking lot in January 2015; the victim was thrown off her bike and flew almost [...]
Police are searching for a pickup truck driver who allegedly ran over a pedestrian and then almost immediately thereafter fled the scene. According to witnesses, the vehicle paused for only a moment after it fatally struck 74-year-old Janice Joy, of Lakeland, as she walked near the Duff Road/Sheffield Drive intersection. As a result of the [...]
A teenager is dead after a woman dozed off while driving, ran off the road and collided with a disabled vehicle on the shoulder. According to the Florida Highway Patrol and witnesses at the scene, 16-year-old Sanjay Nandram, of Apopka, was standing next to his vehicle after a non-injury accident forced it onto the east [...]
A large truck lost part of its load on an Orlando roadway, releasing an estimated one million bees into the surrounding area. Details remain sketchy about the single-vehicle accident that occurred near the intersection of State Road 46A and State Road 46 in Lake County. In the wake of the crash, fifty of the truck’s [...]
A 10-year-old girl drowned after she apparently fell into a hotel swimming pool in Jacksonville. According to witnesses and the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, the girl and three caregivers, who were described as “young family members,” visited the pool at the Hilton Garden Inn. After the girl fell in, two children tried to revive her while [...]
A vacationing Lebanese surgeon will not return to his friends and family back home after he was struck and killed by a passing large truck on a local freeway. Florida Highway Patrol officer state that 36-year-old Dr. Nicholas Ibrahim and a friend – 37-year-old Abdul Aziz Al Enezi, of Kuwait – were changing drivers on [...]
Police are looking for clues in a fatal aggressive driving incident that also involved a hit-and-run driver. Authorities state that 26-year-old Salman Khan and another unidentified driver collided near the intersection of Windhover Drive and Kirkman Road in west Orlando. For unknown reasons, Mr. Khan exited his vehicle after the non-injury wreck to confront the [...]
