Tag Archives: Fort Lauderdale Personal Injury Attorneys
Florida and Hit & Runs
According to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, 2012 through 2014 saw a total of 235,666 hit and run crashes. In 2014 alone, one in four crashes involved a hit and run. Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach County saw 84,252 hit and run crashes, accounting for 40% of all hit and… Read More »
Florida Car Insurance Basics
Car Insurance can be a confusing topic. Most of us pay our bill and keep a copy in our vehicle, but rarely take the time to understand the terminology contained within our policies. A report by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles titled “Traffic Crash Facts Annual Report 2013” highlights that… Read More »
Prescription Drug Defects: Zoloft
Pfizer, a New York City-based multinational pharmaceutical corporation, introduced the prescription drug Zoloft to the market in 1991. The original television ad has received a heavy dose of mockery over the years, and includes the pitch “When you know more about what’s wrong, you can help make it right.” Perhaps Pfizer can take their… Read More »
Auto Defects — Ignition Switch
January 31 marked the last day for victims and their families who were injured by an ignition-switch defect to submit claims to General Motors (GM). GM established an uncapped victim compensation fund to handle the thousands of potential claims related to injury or death caused by a faulty ignition switch. The program began accepting… Read More »
Social Media is Just That – Social
From venting on Facebook to taking “selfies” of where we are and who we’re with on Instagram, social media platforms have become a gold mine of information about peoples’ likes and dislikes, the activities they perform on a daily basis, who they are or are not friends with, and so much more. As venues… Read More »
Arrests Made in Florida Personal Injury Protection Fraud Ring
Issues with personal injury protection and insurance related to the same are constantly in the news; and it does not look like will change any time in the near future. According to Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, recently there were nine suspects that were arrested for personal injury protection (PIP) fraud in Miami, Florida…. Read More »
Damages in Personal Injury Cases
When reading or hearing about a personal injury case, you generally hear the term “damages” or that someone received so much money in “damages”. But what exactly are damages? There are many different kinds of damages depending on the type of case, where the case is being tried at, and sometimes individual circumstances of… Read More »
Social Media Photographs Allowed in Civil Discovery
On January 7 of this year, the Florida Appellate Court handed down a very important opinion that states that social media photographs are not protected from civil discovery because individuals have little or no privacy rights to information that they have posted on social media sites. The court reasoned that photographs were an important… Read More »
Personal Injury Protection Insurance Likely to Continue
On January 1, 2013, a program was implemented in Florida to stop and ultimately reduce the amount of fraud in personal injury protection, or PIP. And according to a report released from the state Office of Insurance Regulation, the program is working. With the evidence showing the success of the program and the halt… Read More »
The Trauma in Traumatic Brain Injuries
In the state of Florida, more than 210,000 citizens are living with devastating injuries after a brain injury and nearly 100,000 Floridians will experience a brain injury each year. While a traumatic brain injury may be caused by a number of reasons, one caused by the negligence of another may be one of the… Read More »
