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In the Sunshine State, swimming pool drownings are the leading cause of unintentional death for children under 5. Moreover, for every victim that dies, five others are rushed to the emergency room with serious injuries. These wounds often involve brain damage and other injuries which have a devastating effect on both the victim and the [...]
In one form or another, this defense appears in a large percentage of the car crash cases in Florida courtrooms. So, it’s very important to understand how it works and, more importantly, how to beat it. Most insurance companies use this defense to shift blame for the accidents away from the tortfeasors (negligent drivers) and [...]
Largely because they operate at very odd hours, tour bus drivers are often dangerously fatigued. Regardless of how much sleep they do or do not get during normal rest hours, people are naturally drowsy late at night, shortly after lunch, and early in the morning. This is a Florida resident’s circadian rhythm and it very [...]
Even though he initially appeared to be recovering, a 37-year-old man died after he took a line drive to the head while pitching in a recreational softball game. The 37-year-old man passed away on Christmas Day 2017, about two weeks after the game. Though he was unconscious at the scene and he had to be [...]
Sexual harassment, sexual battery, and other such cases have been in the headlines a lot during the latter months of 2017, and in most cases, the dispute is one between the alleged victim and alleged abuser. But in some cases, a landowner or other responsible third party may also be at fault, even if this [...]
Over the last several decades, police have developed aggressive new tactics and began using advanced technological tools to combat drunk driving. At the same time, legislators have passed strict new laws which are designed to do the same thing. Florida’s controversial refusal-to-submit law is one of the more recent examples. Yet despite all these efforts, [...]
Human error causes about 94 percent of car crashes, a statistic that is cited very often in many calls for driverless cars. Sometimes, the human error is a one-off mistake that had tragic consequences, sometimes simple negligence is involved, and sometimes the tortfeasor (negligent driver) intentionally disregarded a known risk and thereby endangered the property [...]
According to one study, between 1997 and 2013, a staggering 3.8 million bicyclists were seriously injured in vehicle-bicycle collisions. Moreover, researchers found, the average age of victims is rising as well, suggesting that the bicycle rider pattern is changing away from small children on bicycles near schools to commuters and other adult cyclists who could [...]
Per the negligent entrustment rule, vehicle owners are liable for damages if they allow people to use their vehicles and those individuals negligently injure someone else. However, because of the Graves Amendment, this rule has limited applicability in commercial transactions, such as those that involve U-Haul and other moving truck rental cases. This issue is [...]
That was the word one observer used to describe an 11 percent increase in pedestrian traffic deaths. That’s the highest single-year increase ever and almost twice the size of the increase in traffic deaths overall. Lower gas prices and a better economy mean that more cars are on the roads, and a significant number of [...]
