- Ed Normand | January 31, 2009 10:05 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsJaws of life are used by fire and rescue personnel as part of their lifesaving work in extricating victims from accident wreckage. The goal is to prevent and minimize injury to victims as part of...
- Ed Normand | January 30, 2009 2:25 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued the latest statistics on accidents involving pedestrians and motor vehicles in the United States. The report details the number...
- Ed Normand | January 29, 2009 1:09 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsI have previously posted about lawyer ads on TV for personal injury claims in Orlando. I highlighted ads from a lawyer who is not a Florida Bar Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer who is all over the...
- Ed Normand | January 28, 2009 9:55 PM |
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MiscellaneousYesterday, State Farm announced it will cease selling property insurance in Florida. This will require about 1.2 million State Farm insureds to find other coverage. It will also result in State Farm...
- Ed Normand | January 28, 2009 1:11 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsI was shocked recently to see a television ad from a lawyer expressing his goal this year to recover twenty five million dollars in personal injury claims this year. The Florida Bar does have...
- Ed Normand | January 27, 2009 9:37 PM |
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MiscellaneousState Farm Insurance Company has been trying for a long time to get the State to allow it to raise rates for homeowners insurance. Now they are trying something new--threats. Like a child who does...
- Ed Normand | January 27, 2009 12:08 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsWe have been asked to provide a list of the products that have been recalled due to the peanut butter Salmonella infection. Sadly, the list is too long to print here but it is available from the...
- Sandy Grinnell | January 26, 2009 10:44 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsI'm sure by now that you all have heard about the peanut butter recall last week. But what everyone may not know is that the list keeps expanding. I receive FDA recall notices via email and I'm...
- Ed Normand | January 25, 2009 8:44 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThe food poisoning outbreak related to Salmonella keeps getting larger and larger. According to the the United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) there are now 491 reported cases of people...
- Sandy Grinnell | January 22, 2009 6:21 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsBased on a recent report from the Insurance Research Council (IRC), Florida ranks in the top five states for number of uninsured motorists. In 2007 13.8 percent of all motorists in the U.S. were...
- Sandy Grinnell | January 21, 2009 2:14 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThe contamination of peanut butter products by Peanut Corporation of America has spread to more and more products each day. Here is a list of the FDA recalls received just today:
Premier Nutrition...
- Diego Madrigal | January 21, 2009 11:00 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous Products A report says that most of the public pools in the United States, do not meet the standard of the new federal regulation regarding drains. About 240,000 of the 300,000 pools and hot tubs found in...
- Diego Madrigal | January 20, 2009 11:00 AM |
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MiscellaneousHow much would you pay for a $45,000 boat? An insurance company's answer might surprise you.
When our firm recently settled a case with an insurance company on the eve of trial, it made me think...
- Sandy Grinnell | January 20, 2009 10:27 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThe salmonella contamination that was reported last week by the FDA has now been found in a package of Kellogg's brand Austin Quality Foods Toasty Crackers with Peanut Butter.
Peanut paste and...
- Sandy Grinnell | January 13, 2009 2:27 PM |
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MiscellaneousIn a recent public safety notice, the National Safety Council is advocating a complete ban on talking on cell phones and texting while driving. The Council sited several recent studies to back this...
- Ed Normand | January 09, 2009 4:19 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsIn a recent decision in December 2008 entitled Kirton v. Fields , SC07-1739 (Fla. Dec. 11, 2008), the Florida Supreme Court ruled pre-injury releases even when signed by a parent for their own minor...
- Ed Normand | January 08, 2009 10:14 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsFlorida law currently limits the amount that a health care provider can charge a patient for a copy of their own medical records. Pursuant to Florida Admin Code Rule 64B8-10.003 the legal charge for...
- Ed Normand | January 06, 2009 2:49 PM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)Recently we have seen tourists and other shoppers falling and getting hurt because outlet malls and even theme parks are not complying with the law by properly maintaining their public stores and...
- Ed Normand | January 05, 2009 1:13 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeAccording to the Orlando Sentinel Business Section - 1/2/08:
Dr. Lawrence S. Halperin of Orlando is a surgeon with Orlando Orthopaedic Associates. He committed medical malpractice and was fined...
- Ed Normand | January 04, 2009 11:48 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsDuralgesic patches are topical patches that users attach to the skin to treat chronic pain. The medication involved is fentanyl which is an opiate 80 times stronger than morphine. The patches are...
- Ed Normand | January 03, 2009 11:14 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsChinese parents are angry. Not only are they limited to one child per family but their one child is at risk from dangerous products and faulty construction to name a few recent events. The Chinese...