Category : Personal Injury

  • 10 Jun 2014

    New Guidelines Could Help Prevent Car Submersion Deaths

    Posted By Darrigo & Diaz

    With hurricane season starting soon, Floridians have to start preparing for the much dreaded negative side effects of the sunshine state. An average of 100 people die in floods yearly, with 60% of them occurring in vehicles. These deaths could be avoided with new regulations on safety standards. In case of a vehicle submersion, the best
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  • 28 May 2014

    Recalled Cars Still Being Rented

    Posted By Darrigo & Diaz

    Updated on June 3, 2019. There is a loophole in our legal system that allows used vehicles under recall to be rented or sold without being repaired. Under federal law, used-car dealers and rental car companies are not required to tell customers that a vehicle has been recalled. This is particularly concerning given the hundreds
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  • 22 May 2014

    Seatbelts, Transmissions and Fire Risks

    Posted By Darrigo & Diaz

    Another 2.4 million vehicles are being recalled by GM. The recall includes 2009-2014 model crossovers Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse, GMC Acadia and Saturn Outlook due to the seatbelt separating from the car during impact. The issue is so severe that dealers have been ordered to halt sells on affected models until all appropriate repairs have
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  • 20 May 2014

    Another Turn-Off for GM

    Posted By Darrigo & Diaz

    A new GM recall covers over 2 million possibly affected vehicles. The latest GM recall to shake the automotive giant encompasses six different models from three different automakers in addition to eight thousand vehicles that might have used the defective switch as a service replacement part. Chevrolet’s Cobalt and HHR, Pontiac’s G5 and Solstice as
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  • 24 Jan 2014

    D&D Represents Motorcyclist Couple Left for Dead in Brandon

    Posted By Darrigo & Diaz

    The law firm of Darrigo & Diaz announced that it is representing Connie and David Lindsay, two motorcyclists who were victims of a recent widely publicized hit & run accident on May 15th in Brandon. The life-threatening car versus motorcycle accident happened on Bell Shoals Road on the evening of May 15th in which Connie was riding
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  • 31 Dec 2013

    The Green Liquid and the White Floor

    Posted By Darrigo & Diaz

    In 2004, our client, who had worked all his life as a successful machinist in New York, was shopping at Walmart in Tampa. As he approached the check-out lines and began to round the end-cap to enter the cash register lane, he slipped and fell in a puddle of green liquid on an otherwise pristine
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  • 11 Oct 2013

    Florida Bans Texting & Driving, But Will It Really Make a Difference?

    Posted By Darrigo & Diaz

    As of October 1, Florida’s new ban on texting and driving has taken effect. But as many argue, this new “secondary” law will really not make our roads — or our behaviors – any safer. The new ban on texting is called a secondary offense because police cannot pull over drivers unless they commit another
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  • 28 Aug 2013

    BP Rumored to Pull Out of Spill Settlement

    Posted By Darrigo & Diaz

    The Deepwater Horizon oil spill of April 2010 was the biggest accidental oil spill in history, causing a wave of controversy for petroleum industry leader, BP. The consequences were huge: 4.9 million barrels of spillage that took 87 days to cap, 11 deaths, destruction of natural habitats, blows to fishing and tourism industries, human health
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  • 05 Aug 2013

    Don’t Get Caught in the Sinkhole Scam

    Posted By Darrigo & Diaz

    As Floridians, we are all at a higher risk for experiencing sinkholes. It’s the limestone and carbonate in our beautiful landscape that makes the incidence higher. So what exactly is a sinkhole? It occurs when ground material collapses either suddenly or gradually, causing property damage. And sometimes the severity can be even more extreme, bringing
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  • 13 May 2013

    Tampa Earns Second Highest Road Rage Fatality Rate in the U.S.

    Posted By Darrigo & Diaz

    As the cause of 56% of fatal vehicle accidents, aggressive driving has become an urgent problem. And it just got personal, as Tampa reached an alarming rate of 9.5 fatalities per 100,000 drivers—the second highest death rate in the nation behind San Bernardino, California. Florida seems to top the list in this road rage category, with
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  • 07 May 2013

    Tampa Traffic Fatalities Soar

    Posted By Darrigo & Diaz

    Along with the rest of the nation, Tampa has recently seen a disturbing increase in fatal car crashes. This spike is particularly troubling considering Florida’s improvements in previous years. Until 2012 when fatalities rose five percent, the entire nation experienced a seven-year decline in death rates, reaching record lows. For Tampa, many speculated that Florida’s
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