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Oct
Star Delray Beach Football Player Killed in Dirt Bike Accident
According to a recent Sun-Sentinel report, an Atlantic High School senior and star football player from Delray Beach was recently killed in an accident when his dirt bike crashed into an SUV in the nearby town of Greenacres. The accident occurred when the dirt bike, which did not...
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Oct
Insurance Industry 2017 Data Shows Florida Is One of the Leading States for Dog Bite Incidents
A recent nationwide study showed that the number of dog bite incidents across the U. S. increased 2. 2 percent in 2017 when compared with 2016, and that Florida was one of the leading states for such incidents. The study, which was conducted by insurance industry trade group the In...
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Oct
Motorcyclist Injured in Sarasota in Road Rage Incident
A motorcyclist in Sarasota was recently injured after another motorist deliberately swerved directly into the motorcyclist in a fit of road rage after the two had engaged in an argument. Although this blatant example of road rage is not commonly exhibited by drivers in Florida, i...
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Oct
Female Pedestrian Killed in Hit-and-Run Accident in Tampa, the Sixteenth Fatality in the Tampa Bay Area in One Week
A female pedestrian died in a hit-and-run accident outside Tampa last week, marking the sixteenth fatality in a motor vehicle accident in the greater Tampa area in a single week. According to a report from ABC Action News, this most recent fatality occurred when a woman was attem...
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Oct
Distracted Driving Accidents in Florida: On the Rise and Unlikely to Change Any Time Soon
In honor of Distracted Driving Month in April, the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) recently released statistics showing that 2017 was the worst year on record for accidents involving distracted drivers in Florida. Even though more than 50,000 accidents occurred in 2017 that were att...
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Oct
Investigation Shows Former Professional Hockey Player At Fault in Fatal September 2017 Florida Boating Accident
A former professional hockey player and educator who was killed and his young daughter injured in a Florida boating accident in September 2017 was determined to be at fault in the accident after an extensive investigation whose findings were recently released by the Florida Fish...
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Oct
Self-Driving Uber Car in Arizona Kills Pedestrian
A pedestrian wheeling a bicycle across the road was recently killed by an Uber self-driving vehicle in Arizona, calling into question the safety of the company’s self-driving vehicles and its use of public roads for test-driving those vehicles. This was believed to be the first p...
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Oct
Pedestrian Bridge Collapses at Florida International University, Killing Six and Injuring Nine
In a Florida workplace accident that made national news headlines, a pedestrian bridge at Florida International University's (FIU) main campus in Miami collapsed on March 15th during structural testing that was being performed even though cracks had been discovered in the b...
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Oct
Four Tourists Killed in Crash That Shuts Down US-1 in the Florida Keys
Four tourists from Spain recently were killed in an accident in the Florida Keys that also involved an industrial truck as well as a recreational vehicle (RV). According to a report from ABC news on the crash, the Florida Highway Patrol's preliminary investigation showed th...
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Oct
Allen Gressett: Passion and Loyalty Define Him
Allen Gressett joined the Memphis, Tennessee office of Schwed, Adams, Sobel & McGinley six months ago. Having been born and raised in Mississippi, Gressett has a deep sense of loyalty and passion for his home state, the work he does and his intrinsic need to give back. Gresse...
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Oct
Tavis Souder: Using His Knowledge of the Insurance Industry to Passionately Fight for His Clients
It was during his undergraduate studies that Tavis Souder began developing his passion for the legal field. He joined the University of Central Florida Mock Trial Team and competed all over the country. After graduating from UCF he attended the Florida State College of Law where...
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Oct
Hubie McGinley: Creating His Ideal Life Personally & Professionally
It’s rare to find someone who has built the exact life that he desires, personally and professionally. Hubie McGinley has built a career that he loves and a family that fuels his passions. Since the age of 12, Hubie has known that he wanted to be a trial attorney. From the time o...
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