Florida Personal Injury Lawyer Blog

In yet another tragic situation involving a family pool, a two year old child drown at his home in Miramar, Florida. The child apparently slipped out of his house, through an unlocked sliding glass door, and fell into an unfenced pool. The child was pronounced dead at Broward General Medical Center. According to the American…

Gunfire at a Riviera Beach nightclub late Sunday evening, due to an apparent lack of proper security, resulted in the wrongful deaths of two club patrons. The Caribbean Club in Palm Beach County was the location of the early morning incident in which an 18 year old and a 24 year old died. Unfortunately, these…

Sunday evening was a deadly night for motorcycles in Miami, as two separate motorcyle accidents ended in the wrongful deaths of a passenger and a driver. The first accident occurred on I-95 when a drunk driver struck a motorcycle from behind, killing the passenger. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the passenger was not wearing a helmet.…

In yet another blow to Florida victims of medical malpractice , the Florida Supreme Court ruled that hospitals are not required to verify that their staff physicians carry medical malpractice insurance. This ruling essentially allows doctors to disregard Florida Statute Section 458.720 which requires them to have medical malpractice insurance if they are on a…

In an effort to protect Florida residents and visitors from further personal injury and wrongful death from Carbon Monoxide poisoning, Florida Governor Crist recently signed the Carbon Monoxide Prevention Bill into law. As of July 1, 2008, carbon monoxide detectors will be required in all new buildings. The bill requires all buildings in Florida, whether…

In some good news for Florida car accident victims, Governor Crist just signed into law, a bill which will require all drivers convicted of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, to carry a minimum of $100,000.00 in bodily injury liability insurance and $50,000.00 in property damage insurance. This new law, known as Florida…

In an alarming trend, another Florida jet ski rider died, and another passenger was critically injured, when their Jet Ski collided with a dock in Pompano Beach. This was at least the third such death caused by a jet ski accident in South Florida over the past few months. Considering the number Jet Ski operators…

In another example of the State of Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration’s continuing failure to adequately monitor physicians under its charge, Dr. Alex Zakharia is still on the active staffs at numerous Miami hospitals despite an admitted memory problem and pending perjury and fraud charges. Dr. Zakharia, age 69, a Miami surgeon specializing in…

In some good news for workers injured in Florida, the Florida Supreme Court ruled, in Bakerman vs. The Bombay Co., that when an employer’s actions are substantially certain to result in injury or death, that the injured worker is not required to prove that their employer concealed the dangerous condition from them. Too often Florida…

Many of our client’s are surprise to learn that anyone injured by the negligent actions of any employee of the State of Florida, any of its political subdivisions, including those employees of a County or City, is limited, regardless of how seriously they are injured, to a maximum recovery of $100,000.00. This limitation or cap,…