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Thousands of smokers and the familes of deceased smokers will be splitting $600 million from a fund which was financed by tobacco companies as part of the tobacco settlement. The money will be…
Florida’s theme parks are required to report tourist related injuries to the state quarter. Here is a summary of the first quarter reports: Neck and spine injuries sustained on the Mach V ride at…
A study cited in the University of Florida s latest Neuropsychology Clinical Update shows that recreational club drugs like ecstasy and methamphetamines have the similar effects on the brain as a…
Increasingly, doctors require their patients to waive their constitiutional right to a jury trial by signing binding arbitration agreements. Under binding arbitration agreements, if the physician…
Today is the day that millions of Americans rush to the post office in the grand tradition of filing taxes right at the April 15th deadline. The question often arises from clients as to what…
All may not be as it appears in a deadly car crash I blogged about a few weeks ago. A recent comment on my post by a man claiming to be the father of the driver states that there was no speed limit…
A new detection mechanism for harmful or incorrect use of medicines in hospitals has shown that 1 in 15 hospitalized children are the victims of mix-ups, overdoses, and harmful reactions to drugs…
A tractor trailer jack-knifed on Rt. 408 in Orlando and crashed into at least two cars. The truck vs automobile accident closed down the westbound lane of travel for hours causign traffic to be…
The Florida Department of Health has advised the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of 23 cases of adverse reactions to a liquid supplement distributed by Total Body Essential Nutrition based in…
Dozens of spectators at Wrestlemania 24 were injured when the final fireworks display of the night accidentally shot into the crowd. At the conclusion of the show at the Citrus Bowl, one of the lines shooting fireworks broke and went into the crowd, burning several people. Although most of the injur
A construction crane fell 30 floors and crashed through the roof of a house being used as the construction office of a highrise condo in Miami, killing two men. One was a 59 year-old insurance company inspector; the other was an employee of the construction company who was only 29. Four other employ
A 49 year-old man and his 24 year-old son were both killed in the same accident on Florida’s Turnpike yesterday morning. The Inverness residents were part of a construction crew wroking on the guardrails just north of the US 301 exit. It was reported that a car collided with the back of a semi trail
