A report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) regarding a March 1staccident in Delray Beach involving a Tesla equipped with an autonomous driving feature called Autopilot recently found that the vehicle’s system was engaged at the time of the accident and that the driver took his hands off the wheel for the last eight…
One central Florida city has found an inexpensive means to hopefully drastically reduce the incidence of pedestrian accidents with motor vehicles for a cheap solution. Given the state’s pervasive problem with pedestrian injuries and fatalities throughout the length and breadth of Florida, it remains to be seen if this solution could potentially resolve an issue that…
Four cyclists in Port Richey on Florida’s Gulf Coast were out enjoying a group ride on a recent Monday evening when they were involved in a horrific accident in which all four were injured as a result of a truck driver’s negligence. The accident occurred when a 18-wheel tractor trailer took a turn and its…
Insurance giant State Farm recently conducted a survey that ranked the Sunshine State as having the second most dog bites of any state in the country in 2018. According to State Farm’s annual survey, prepared in connection with National Dog Bite Prevention Awareness Week in mid-April, more information about which can be found here, statistics from…
In an accident that highlighted both the dangers presented by the large numbers of semi-trucks on our nation’s highways, as well as why drivers need to be careful in and around construction zones, both in Florida and across the country, a Florida man recently was killed in Missouri when a semi-truck failed to slow down…
Florida routinely ranks as the state with the most uninsured drivers in the country according to virtually any survey conducted by either a government agency or private research organization. If you have been involved in a Florida motor vehicle accident and the other motorist is uninsured or underinsured (that is, he or she does not…
The Florida Senate bill that would allow law enforcement to pull over drivers for texting and driving passed its final Senate committee last week. This is the farthest a distracted driving bill has gone in the Florida Legislature. Senate Bill 76 passed the Rules Committee last Wednesday afternoon and is headed to the Florida Senate…
America’s Top 100 Personal Injury Attorneys® for 2019 has announced the selection of Hubert McGinley to its ranks. Selection to America’s Top 100 Personal Injury Attorneys® is by invitation only and is reserved to identify the nation’s most exceptional litigators for high-value personal injury, catastrophic injury, wrongful death, product liability, and medical malpractice matters. To be considered…
In an attempt to reverse the hard-fought gains that have been won by ordinary Floridians through prior Florida Supreme Court rulings over the past thirty years, the 2019 Florida Legislature is attempting to impose hurdles in the way Floridians can be fully compensated for injuries they suffered through no fault of their own in the…
An 83-year-old man was recently killed, and his wife critically injured in a wrong way golf cart accident in a Lee County gated community. This incident shines a spotlight on the increasing number of golf cart accidents across the Sunshine State, many of which end up resulting in serious injuries or even death. Whether being…
