The Channel 9 Eyewitness News website is reporting allegations that an employee of Pathways to Care in Casselberry has been using illegal drugs and abusing patients. The assisted living facility worker is being accused of smoking crack cocaine on the property, stealing prescription medications, and verbally abusing residents.Channel 9 attempted to get a statement from the head nurse at the...
Late Sunday in Brevard County, 2 teenagers were airlifted from the scene of a collision in serious condition and flown to the hospital. Unfortunately, it appears it is the result of not wearing seat-belts. Another man was seriously injured. According to an article in the Orlando Sentinel, an 18 year-old woman was speeding when she lost control on a curve and crashed head-on with another car,...
The Orlando Sentinel reported on Sunday that State Farm will cease writing new policies for homes in Florida. State Farm is Florida's largest private insurer. The article reports that the reason for the decision by State Farm is a result of recent Florida legislation passed last year to reduce property insurance rates AND to protect the insurers reserves to pay claims brought by existing...
The Orlando Sentinel reported that a man was killed Friday afternoon when his 2006 Ford Expedition drifted into an oncoming lane, struck a mailbox, and ran into a fence. The crash occurred in Brevard County. The driver, Richard A. Granim, 63, of Apopka, was pronounced dead at Palm Bay Hospital. The article reports that Mr. Garmin was not wearing his seat-belt, but does not say anything else...
Last week, ABC News reported that a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine is shaking up the world of spinal health and medicine. The study says that surgery is a better and more effective treatment for spinal stenosis - more so than conservative therapy and pain medications. Spinal stenosis is a common back condition causing pain and limitations in function as a result of...
Recent studies have confirmed what most of us know already: that driving while using a cell phone is highly dangerous. In fact, after just 3 minutes of driving and talking on a cell phone there is a higher risk of an auto accident than when the driver is legally impaired with a .08 percent blood alcohol level. The theory is that one has to concentrate to such a degree when talking on the...
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) released its report for the year 2006, and at least 555 people were killed in all-terrain vehicle accidents. More than 100 of these were children and officials expect that number to increase as they continue to obtain information from hospitals across the nation.In addition, the report estimated another 146,000 people were treated in emergency rooms...
A California Court has renewed a $33.5 million civil judgment awarded against O.J. Simpson for a civil finding that he was guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Simpson tried to claim that a California Court could not reinstate the award because he now lives in Florida. The argument was rejected by the California Appeals Court. If not reinstated the verdict (now grown...
A "high-low" agreement is an agreement entered in to prior to a trial by the parties in a case. It is an agreement that assures the injured party in a lawsuit that they will receive a recovery, regardless of the jury's verdict, but these agreements actually give a level of protection to both sides in the litigation. The agreement can be made at any time during the course of the litigation,...
Local Billionaire David Siegel has been found liable in a sexual harassment lawsuit and the victim has been awarded over five million dollars in damages. Allegations in the lawsuit included that the Plaintiff, Georgette Myers, was forced to work in a hostile environment and that she suffered a battery when Siegel allegedly pressed her up against a wall and touched her. In a scene straight...