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Serious falls can happen to anyone. But older people are especially at risk for these injuries. Each year, hospital emergency rooms treat over 1.8 million fall victims over 65. The outlook worsens by year. Among folks over 85, falls are by far the leading cause of injury-related death. Many of these incidents occur in nursing [...]
In the summer of 2017, the Sunshine State led the nation in a very unwelcome category, viz, the number of swimming pool drownings. There were almost as many victims in Florida as there were in California and Texas combined. These victims are usually entitled to significant compensation for both economic losses, such as medical bills, [...]
These incidents are very common at most long-term care facilities in the Sunshine State. About 60 percent of nursing home residents fall each year. Because of the exploding senior population, many of these facilities are almost constantly under construction to accommodate more patients. Often due to age or medication, many residents are not fully aware [...]
Driver error causes roughly 95 percent of the car accidents in Florida, whether the cause is direct, such as running a stop light, or indirect, such as failing to slow down sufficiently on a wet road. Moreover, sometimes the error is a simple mistake and sometimes the error is negligence. Victims may obtain damages only [...]
In both a direct and indirect sense, time is the leading cause of delivery room injuries to newborn infants. If the baby does not drop down the birth canal as normal, due to shoulder dystocia (the baby is in the wrong position, or is simply too large, to pass safely through the birth canal) or [...]
The AAA estimates that fatigued drivers cause about a third of the injury crashes in Florida, but this figure is nothing more than a rough estimate. For one thing, there is no “Breathalyzer” test to determine fatigue; for another, many law-enforcement agencies do not code crashes as drowsy driving-related unless the tortfeasor (negligent driver) falls [...]
The governor’s office has received thousands of phone calls, letters, and e-mails about House Bill 7069, and the volume is about three-to-one against the measure’s highly controversial voucher provision. If enacted, House Bill 7069 would increase homeschool voucher funding for parents of children with cerebral palsy and other disabilities by about $30 million. Most of [...]
Many times, nurses and doctors are completely unprepared for shoulder dystocia, which is one of the leading causes of birth injuries. Even if the baby is too large to normally drop through the mother’s narrow birth canal, the umbilical cord keeps dropping, and it will basically wrap itself around the baby’s neck. In less than [...]
After years of rather steady decline, pedestrian deaths jumped 9.5 percent last year to their highest level since 1995. The total is even higher in Jacksonville and some other Florida cities, where there are generally fewer walkers. Based on preliminary figures from the first half of 2016, the total may increase by double digits this [...]
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 [...]
