15
Sep
Hubert S. McGinley Named to America’s Top 100 Personal Injury Attorneys
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 p...
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15
Sep
Florida Legislature Advances Insurance Industry-Supported Attempts to Cap Personal Injury Lawsuit Awards
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 injurie...
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15
Sep
Florida Golf Cart Accident Kills One and Seriously Injures Another
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...
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15
Sep
Statistics Continue to Show Florida Has a Major Bicycle Safety Problem
March was Florida Bicycle Safety Month and a number of safety initiatives went on across the state of Florida at the state, county and local level. Bicycling in Florida is and always has been an extremely hazardous pursuit, even more so than in many other parts (or really any oth...
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15
Sep
Surveillance Video Captures Fatal Crash
A fatal crash in Deerfield Beach was recently caught by a nearby restaurant’s surveillance cameras. The crash resulted in the death of one teenager and serious injuries to multiple other teenagers who were passengers in the car of the driver the police determined to be at fault i...
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Sep
Tallahassee Slip-and-Fall Claimant Awarded $1.1 Million by Jury
A Tallahassee woman recently prevailed upon a premises liability claim after suffering serious injuries due to a 2016 slip-and–fall incident in a local hospital and was awarded $1. 1 million by a Leon County jury after a trial against the hospital. According to a Tallahassee Democ...
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15
Sep
VA Active Shooter Highlights Florida Negligent Security Law
Screaming that he needed a cigarette, a double amputee and U. S. Army veteran in West Palm Beach recently shot and wounded a doctor at the West Palm Beach Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center just before the veteran was scheduled to undergo a mental health evaluation. The v...
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15
Sep
Miami-Dade Police Chase Turns Deadly
According to a report from Miami’s WSVN news, a recent police chase in Miami ended with one pedestrian dead, three police officers injured and substantial property damage. The chase concluded in a fiery crash when a stolen car with the four criminal suspects collided with an off...
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15
Sep
Fort Lauderdale Crash Exposes the Dangers of Electric Scooters
In the first serious accident in South Florida involving the electric scooters that have taken South Florida streets as well as the nation by storm, a Fort Lauderdale woman is in a coma after a crash involving an electric scooter that she was riding on the streets of Fort Lauderd...
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15
Sep
Florida Party Boats Can Be Deadly
Miami and South Florida are known throughout the world for both their party scene and great boating. People come from all over the world to celebrate spring break, bachelor or bachelorette parties or other events in South Florida, and many choose to go out on the water and party...
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15
Sep
Florida PIP Insurance: Will the Legislature Finally Act?
Florida’s 2019 legislative session officially starts on March 3rd, and legislative committees are already meeting to discuss what the 2019 Legislature’s priorities will be. One of the items expected to be high on the agenda, for the third year in a row, is automobile liability in...
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15
Sep
Florida Named the Nation’s Deadliest State for Pedestrians
A study just released by the safety advocacy group Smart Growth America found that Florida was projected to be the most dangerous state in the country for pedestrians in 2019, with eight of the ten metropolitan areas having the highest pedestrian accident fatality rates in the Su...
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