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Speed Limit May Not Have Been Posted In Deadly I-4 Crash

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…

By The Legal Examiner

/ 15 Apr 2008

Theme Park Manager Blames Employees for Ride Injury at Six Flags

A recent article on AOL News reported that a theme park ride injury last summer at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom may have been the result of workers not following the manufacturers instructions. The…

By Michael Damaso

/ 14 Apr 2008

1 out of 15 Hospitalized Children May Be Harmed by Drug Mistakes

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…

By The Legal Examiner

/ 7 Apr 2008

Auto Truck Crash Stops 408 Traffic

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…

By The Legal Examiner

/ 4 Apr 2008

Florida Department of Health Advises FDA of Adverse Reactions to Dietary Supplement

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…

By The Legal Examiner

/ 1 Apr 2008

Fireworks Malfunction at Wrestlmania 24

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

By The Legal Examiner

/ 31 Mar 2008

Crane Falls, Crashes Through Roof of Construction Office

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

By The Legal Examiner

/ 27 Mar 2008

Sad Day for Contruction Workers' Family

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

By The Legal Examiner

/ 26 Mar 2008

Bad Week for Airline Passengers

Since the full moon had begun to wane, there had to be some other external force effecting air travel this week. Here are the headlines from msnbc.com yesterday:Piece of airliner dislodges… hits passenger window; Pilot’s gun fires on US Airways jet; and 747 blows 4 tires, aborts takeoff from LAXThe

By The Legal Examiner

/ 25 Mar 2008

Fraudulent Accident Ring-leader Admits Guilt

A man from the Miami-Dade area was convicted and another was arrested this week in connection with PIP fraud perpetrated on insurance companies in South Florida resulting from fake automobile accidents. Alex Sink, Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, said this was the fourth and final arrest made by t

By The Legal Examiner

/ 23 Mar 2008

Surgeon Removes Wrong Kidney

Thankfully for the sick in Minnesota, a surgeon will stop seeing patients after he removed the wrong kidney from a patient. In doing so, the surgeon left a cancerous kidney inside the patient. The surgery was done last Tuesday, but only on Wednesday was it discovered what had happened. To prevent so

By The Legal Examiner

/ 21 Mar 2008

Will Justices Recuse Themselves Because They Are Baseball Fans?

An interesting question has been posed in anticipation of the Supreme Court deciding on whether or not to hear a case regarding fantasy baseball. The issue in the case is as to who owns the statistics for baseball players. Is it Major League Baseball, or are they owned by nobody and therefore, free

By The Legal Examiner

/ 21 Mar 2008