Staying at a vacation rental or Airbnb offers a unique and personalized lodging experience. Tourists can experience Florida while staying in a more home-like setting, as opposed to a hotel. They are very different experiences, each with its own pros and cons. While you give up the staff and conveniences of a hotel, many travelers…
Last month, a Lake Worth parking lot accident sent a woman and child to the hospital. According to a news report, an SUV driver did not stop for the pedestrians as he turned. The SUV struck, and then ran over both victims, resulting in serious injuries. This unfortunate incident highlights the hidden dangers present in…
Imagine this: It’s a beautiful day and you’re strolling towards the clubhouse in your private residential community in Florida. Suddenly, you trip over a raised area on the sidewalk. The excruciating pain in your right ankle and knee is immediate. Trying to stand, you collapse as weight on your right leg is impossible. Luckily another…
Videos are crucial evidence in many personal injury cases, especially those involving slip and fall incidents. Imagine slipping and falling over a puddle of water in a store, with no wet floor sign nearby. You notice a surveillance camera directly above the area. Because of your excruciating pain, you forget about the camera until after…
Slip and fall injuries occur much more frequently than people realize. The body twists or jerks into unnatural positions, resulting in serious injury. In the process, it tears muscles, tendons, ligaments, and connective tissues in the process. The injuries from slip and fall incidents can result in substantial medical expenses and other damages like lost…
You are walking across a parking lot towards the grocery store, noticing a large hole that you always take great care to avoid, when your phone unexpectedly rings. You immediately fumble in your pocket to get it out and, the next thing you know, you are on the ground with a throbbing knee and it…
Someone is robbed at gunpoint in a shopping center in a bad neighborhood after withdrawing cash at night from an ATM underneath several burnt-out lights in the shopping center’s parking lot. The police later track down the assailant, who is criminally charged with both armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. The shopping center…
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…
South Florida has a considerable amount of crime, which comes as no surprise to anyone who lives in the area. Robberies are frequent and, like any major urban area, there are certain neighborhoods in which more crime takes place than others. Sometimes, however, crime takes place on the premises of a business, under circumstances that the…
On your way into your bank’s local branch to deposit a check, you trip and fall. You walked into the bank just like every other time, did not see a hole in the floor where one of the tiles was missing and in the process of being replaced, and stepped straight into the hole, twisting…
