Florida Weighs Sale of Top Medical Malpractice Insurer
Posted on Saturday, July 23rd, 2011
One of Florida’s major medical malpractice insurers is seeking state approval to be sold to an out-of-state insurance group with the initial price tag expected to total $365 million. The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation [...]
continue readingAppeals Court Upholds Florida Medical Malpractice Cap
Posted on Monday, May 30th, 2011
A Florida law that caps the damages that victims can receive in medical malpractice cases was upheld Friday by the federal appeals court in Atlanta.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the challenge of the [...]
Florida Senate Limits Lawsuits Against Auto Makers
Posted on Monday, March 21st, 2011
Auto makers and other manufacturers scored a victory in the Florida Senate on Wednesday as the chamber passed a bill that would make it more difficult for injured parties to win product liability awards in [...]
continue readingNorovirus Prompts Quarantine of Florida Nursing Homes
Posted on Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Norovirus has been linked to a gastrointestinal illness outbreak that has quarantined eight nursing homes in Florida’s Brevard County, WFTV reported. Not limited to facility residents, children are turning up with the sickness, according to [...]
continue reading5 Dead in Florida Motel Carbon Monoxcide Poisoning
Posted on Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
Fire officials say five friends are dead likely from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a running car in closed garage underneath their South Florida motel room.
Hialeah police spokesman Carl Zogby says it is believed to [...]
Hole Found in Plan That Lost Cabin Pressure
Posted on Saturday, October 30th, 2010
MIAMI (AP) – A 1-foot-by-2-foot hole was found in the fuselage of a commercial airliner that suddenly lost cabin pressure shortly after taking off from Miami, authorities said.
Passengers aboard American Airlines Flight 1640 were hysterical [...]
Fort Myers Personal Injury Fraud Cases on the Rise
Posted on Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
Three employees of a Fort Myers chiropractor face charges of insurance fraud for billing insurance companies for office visits for a man who was in jail.
The three, Yariselys Hernandez , Luiz Hernandez and Caroline Sterling [...]
Florida Treatment Center Faces Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Posted on Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
At first, Sharon Bronowicz’s death was ruled a suicide. Then it was called an accidental drowning. Finally the facts came out. Now it is one more Florida wrongful death lawsuit—a death, say lawyers for Ms. [...]
continue readingMillions are at stake over wrongful death lawsuit against Polo mogul
Posted on Monday, May 3rd, 2010
WEST PALM BEACH, FL — It’s been more than two months now since witnesses say Wellington Polo Club founder John Goodman ran through a stop sign with his Bentley and plowed into recent college graduate [...]
continue readingCrist Signs Slip and Fall Legislation
Posted on Monday, April 26th, 2010
Gov. Charlie Crist quietly signed into law Wednesday a major priority of retailers that was opposed by trial lawyers, shifting the burden of proof in negligence cases, in so-called slip-and-fall scenarios.
Since a 2002 court ruling [...]