Category : Personal Injury

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a major tort reform bill into law on March 24, 2023. The bill, HB837, revised or amended many Florida statutes dealing with personal injury law and the civil judicial system. The changes went into effect immediately upon signing and protect businesses, property owners, and corporations from paying damages in personal injury lawsuits. HB837 will have considerable impacts on personal injury lawsuits, insurance providers, attorney fees, and more. The following article...

When you travel on local streets and highways, you try to avoid speeding drivers. Speed is often a factor in some of the most tragic accidents. It reduces the chances of avoiding a crash. When an accident occurs, excessive speed causes more damage and worsens the injuries. Current data show that in Florida and Tampa, speeding is a factor in 9 percent of fatal accidents. But these statistics haven’t kept pace with real-time concerns. You’ll...

Do You Have A Brachial Plexus Claim? Children are a vulnerable age group and have a higher risk of injuries. They are likely to sustain a brachial plexus injury from a severe accident. An adult or another child could have been responsible for the bodily harm on purpose or unintentionally. In several situations, the parents or guardians of the minor have a legal entitlement to reimbursement. Places like Tampa allow people to sue on their...

Weighing up to 80,000 pounds when fully loaded and featuring significant blind spots on all four sides, commercial motor vehicles—also known as tractor-trailers or semi-trucks—prove far more difficult to maneuver than other vehicles. Operating one safely requires skills that drivers of smaller vehicles don’t need. For this reason, the trucking industry operates under heavy regulations. However, despite the regulations, truck drivers and trucking companies often bend the rules, either by driving without the proper qualifications...

As one of the top exporters in the nation, Florida accounts for 3.9 percent of the overall goods exported from the United States. Many of these goods travel to other countries through one of the state’s ports, but many more ship to other states. As these locally grown or manufactured goods leave our state, items that our residents and visitors need are shipped in. Most products shipped in the U.S. use commercial motor vehicles, also...

Grim statistics reveal that 37 children die each year in heat-related tragedies in cars across the United States. This adds up to over 600 deaths since 1998, with only Texas having more incidences than Florida. Armed with this information, parents and caretakers need to be aware of the danger of leaving children in hot cars. It takes approximately 10 minutes for the temperature inside a car to increase by 20 degrees, and even less time...