Florida Statute of Limitation in Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice Actions
A statute of limitation is a law that places a time limit on your ability to pursue a legal action. Unless there’s an exception, once the time limit expires, you lose your ability to file a lawsuit....
View ArticleDealing With Insurance Companies After an Automobile Accident
Even though you might feel certain that you did not cause an accident, it is advisable to contact your automobile insurer as soon as possible after one occurs. Your insurance policy likely contains a...
View ArticlePrevailing on a Lost Wages Claim
A lost wages claim is a claim for wages that you were unable to earn because of the defendant’s actions or omissions. In other words, the defendant’s actions or failure to act in a required way caused...
View ArticleNursing Home Abuse: What You Can Do About It
The elderly and the infirm are some of the most vulnerable people in our society because they cannot easily defend themselves. When the elderly are placed in a nursing home, there is a risk that they...
View ArticleMedicare Requirements in Personal Injury Claims
Starting on January 1, 2011, personal injury claims from claimants eligible for Medicare must be reported to Medicare. Medicare is entitled to a 100% recovery of the benefits it paid for the treatment...
View ArticleCar Window Dog Bites
Approximately 800,000 people seek medical treatment for dog bites each year in the United States. Only rarely, however, are the circumstances close to what Deborah Reyes experienced. Ms. Reyes was on...
View ArticleOut of Control: Use of Restraints in Nursing Homes
Nursing home abuse takes many forms, and can include physical, emotional and financial manifestations. One area where abuse may be hard to detect is in the use of both physical and chemical restraints...
View ArticleThe Hospital Gift Nobody Wants: Infection
The last thing you expect to get in a hospital is an additional medical complication in the form of infection. Hospital acquired infections, also known as Nosocomial infections, strike about two...
View ArticleSwimming Pool Safety and Children
A nine-month-old Florida boy was in critical condition after his mother rescued him from a near drowning in the family’s pool in late December. He was lucky; many in his situation do not survive....
View ArticleDo I Have to Pay Taxes on My Personal Injury Settlement?
A personal injury lawsuit can be a long journey. Starting with an injury that may be painful, life altering and debilitating, it continues with an investigation, lawsuit, discovery, and in some...
View ArticleFlorida Leads the Country in Boating Accidents
Charlie Jackson and Jason Cobb recently went together on a boating trip on Lake Jessup. Both turned up dead days later. Investigators believe that the two were involved in a boating accident that...
View ArticleThe Importance of Seeking Treatment for Head Injuries
A new study by the Boston Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (BCSTE) highlights a link between significant head injury and the development, even years later, of degenerative brain...
View ArticleFlorida Motorcycle Laws: Wear a Helmet or Face the Consequences
Codie Ray Barlow, a twenty-year-old Floridian, struck a mailbox with his motorcycle on New Year’s Day and was thrown to his death. Mr. Barlow was not wearing a helmet. The helmet could have saved his...
View ArticleWhen Surgeons Operate on the Wrong Body Part
When Pamela and Kenny Metheny took their 15-year-old son Cody to the hospital to remove a lesion on his brain, they were undoubtedly extremely worried, as any parent would be. It is almost certain,...
View ArticleWhat To Do If You Accidentally Drive Into a Canal
As Floridians know all too well, drivers can easily find themselves in a canal, whether because they were swept in by floodwaters or the impact of another vehicle drove them into the canal. Sometimes...
View ArticleCommon Causes of Motorcycle Accidents
According to a June 2010 study conducted by the U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Motorcycle Crash Courses and Outcomes: Pilot Study, the number of...
View ArticleFlorida Statute of Limitation in Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice Actions
A statute of limitation is a law that places a time limit on your ability to pursue a legal action. Unless there’s an exception, once the time limit expires, you lose your ability to file a lawsuit....
View ArticleDealing With Insurance Companies After an Automobile Accident
Even though you might feel certain that you did not cause an accident, it is advisable to contact your automobile insurer as soon as possible after one occurs. Your insurance policy likely contains a...
View ArticlePrevailing on a Lost Wages Claim
A lost wages claim is a claim for wages that you were unable to earn because of the defendant’s actions or omissions. In other words, the defendant’s actions or failure to act in a required way caused...
View ArticleNursing Home Abuse: What You Can Do About It
The elderly and the infirm are some of the most vulnerable people in our society because they cannot easily defend themselves. When the elderly are placed in a nursing home, there is a risk that they...
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