Category Archives: Personal Injury
Evidence In Drowsy Truck Driver Crash Claims
Recently, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has repeatedly watered down key HOS (hours of service) requirements. These rules usually include daily driving limits, usually 11 hours, and weekly driving limits, usually 70 hours. These rules also include mandatory break periods. Because of these dilutions, more drowsy truck drivers are on the road than… Read More »
Winning Dog Bite Injury Cases In Florida
Over the last ten years, the average dog bite insurance settlement has almost doubled. Doctors better understand the severe physical and emotional wounds these attacks cause. The physical wounds usually include surface wounds, like severe lacerations and broken bones. Deeper physical wounds, like internal organ injuries and head injuries, are common as well. Emotionally,… Read More »
What You Should Know About Nursing Home Falls
Slip-and-fall injuries often send people to nursing homes and keep them there longer. 40 percent of older adult fall victims go to nursing homes, and 60 percent of these residents fall at nursing homes. Usually, the physical and emotional injuries are so bad that these victims cannot ever live independently again. In other words,… Read More »
Basic And Advanced Evidence In Car Crash Cases
Victim/plaintiffs must prove car crash and other personal injury claims by a preponderance of the evidence, or more likely than not. That’s one of the lowest burdens of proof in Florida law. However, as most of us know, minimum effort typically yields minimum results. In most cases, minimum compensation isn’t enough, Car crash victims… Read More »
Fatal Left-Turn Motorcycle Wreck In Tampa
Investigators believe that a rider’s excessive speed contributed to a deadly crash at the intersection of East Hillsborough Avenue and North 15th Street. According to the Tampa Police Department, the driver of a Chevrolet Silverado was waiting in the turn lane on East Hillsborough Avenue to turn south onto North 15th Street. Police say… Read More »
Common Insurance Company Defenses In Personal Injury Claims
Every year, insurance companies collect over $1 trillion in premiums alone. So, they have almost unlimited resources with which to fight car crash, dog bite, fall, and other injury claims. Typically, insurance company lawyers use one or more of the defenses discussed below to fight injury claims. Therefore, an attorney must be prepared to… Read More »
Hit And Run Driver Kills Pedestrian In Tampa
Police have practically no leads after a speeding motorist ran over a pedestrian and immediately fled the scene. Police were called to North 50th Street between Melbourne Boulevard and East 26th Avenue at 7:46 p.m. Sunday and found a man who had been struck by a car, according to a Tampa police news release…. Read More »
Why It Can Take So Long To Settle A Case
Usually, it only takes buyers and sellers a few hours to agree on the purchase price of a new car. So, many people want to know why is my lawyer taking so long to settle my case. That’s an honest question which deserves an honest answer. This answer has much to do with the… Read More »
Teen Charged After Fatal Pasco County Wreck
A 17-year-old driver was traveling over 100mph when he struck an SUV and killed two people in January 2022. He now faces two counts of vehicular manslaughter. According to investigators, the teen driver hit an SUV which was turning left from State Road 56 onto Laguna Boulevard in Wesley Chapel. The force of the… Read More »
One Dead After High-Speed Drunk Driving Crash
Charges are pending against a man who killed one person and injured several others in an alcohol-related wreck in Tampa. The wreck happened on northbound Interstate 75 near the Fletcher Avenue exit. Florida Highway Patrol investigators say a 31-year-old man overtook a Chevrolet Cruz, causing that vehicle to spin out of control and smacked… Read More »
