Personal Injury
The Green Liquid and the White Floor
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…
Continue ReadingFlorida Bans Texting & Driving, But Will It Really Make a Difference?
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…
Continue ReadingBP Rumored to Pull Out of Spill Settlement
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…
Continue ReadingDon’t Get Caught in the Sinkhole Scam
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…
Continue ReadingTampa Earns Second Highest Road Rage Fatality Rate in the U.S.
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…
Continue ReadingTampa Traffic Fatalities Soar
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…
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