A ten-time world champion cyclist, Ethan Boyes, was killed in San Francisco while training in early April. Boyes competed in a type of cycling known as track cycling, which takes place indoors on a banked track. A New York Times report regarding his death reported that he was lawfully in a bike lane on a heavily…
According to a report from the Capitolist regarding the annual INRIX 2022 Global Traffic Scorecard, Miami now rates as one of the most traffic-clogged cities in the world. Even despite the pandemic, the amount of time the average Miami motorist must spend stuck in traffic every year increased by 30% from 2021 to 2022. This…
Among other changes to the state’s civil justice system that the Florida Legislature has made recently in what is being billed as “long-overdue” tort reform in Florida, one legislative action was to change the method of apportioning fault in civil lawsuits in Florida. Florida currently has a pure comparative fault statute system, meaning that a…
If you have suffered a slip and fall or a trip and fall in Florida, you may not have the slightest idea who the right party to seek damages from for your injuries would be. An important concept to understand in premises liability cases like slip and fall or trip and fall scenarios in Florida…
A child was tragically killed in entirely preventable circumstances when he fell out of the backseat of a turning pickup truck in Tampa in late February. According to a report from a local news outlet, the child, who was riding in the back seat, opened the door and fell out of a pickup truck as…
Insurance companies are always looking for ways to reduce how much they pay to injured people who suffered those injuries through no fault of their own. Lately our experienced personal injury attorneys at Schwed, Adams & McGinley have seen the increased use of a procedural mechanism available to the parties in Florida lawsuits called a…
Police are on the lookout for a motorist in Jupiter who fatally struck and killed a pedestrian at 10:00 p.m. on a recent Friday night while attempting to flee from police. According to a report regarding the incident from the local ABC News affiliate, police were attempting to perform a traffic stop when the car…
The checkered history of the Brightline high speed rail line added yet another tragic chapter to its long string of deaths recently when two people in Delray Beach were killed when their car was struck by a train. A report from CBS Miami on the incident reported that the car was on the tracks when…
A tragic boating accident in the waters off Miami killed professional soccer player Anton Walkes of Charlotte FC of Major League Soccer on January 18th. The boat Walkes was driving collided with another boat near the Miami Marine Stadium basin around 3:00 p.m. Walkes was found unconscious by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responding to the…
In a particularly unusual incident at a high school in St. Augustine, a student fell off an elevated walkway two stories above the ground on January 24th. The incident, which took place at Pedro Menendez High School in St. Johns County south of Jacksonville, occurred when the student somehow fell over the walkway railing and…
