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The Army has developed a simple blood test that can diagnose minor traumatic brain injury or concussion, the USA Today reported. Such a breakthrough would have a wide range of uses in diagnosing Traumatic Brain Injury from Fort Lauderdale car accidents or injuries caused by bicycle, pedestrian or slip and fall accidents. TBI can beContinue reading “Mild traumatic brain injury often undiagnosed”

For the elementary school students at Pine Joe Elementary in West Palm Beach, participating in the Oct. 6 Walk to School day event meant more than getting some fresh air and a traffic safety lessons on their way to and from school, the Sun Sentinel reports. For them, as much as it was about exercise,Continue reading “Student safety campaign aims to reduce pedestrian accidents in Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach”

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is urging residents to wear white on Tuesday as part of a statewide “White Out” of teen traffic accidents. The awareness effort is part of National Teen Driver Safety Week, which runs from Oct. 17 to 23. Car accidents in Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach andContinue reading “Tuesday’s “White Out” aims to highlight risk of car accidents involving teenagers in Fort Lauderdale and throughout Florida”

A 73-year-old Tampa woman reported missing by her family last Sunday was located with 24 hours more than two hours from home, ABC Action News reports. She apparently became lost en route to visit her brother at a nearby nursing home after dropping her daughter off at church. She was found in her car justContinue reading “Choosing the proper South Florida nursing home an important decision”

NHTSA promotes seat belt use as powerful injury-prevention tool for South Florida drivers A two-car accident on I-385 in South Carolina between a 2006 Toyota sedan and 2011 Chevrolet SUV carrying the driver and six passengers, all from South Florida, left one dead and sent seven to an area hospital in a crash that couldContinue reading “Government continues to push seat belts to prevent injuries in Fort Lauderdale car accidents”

As foreclosure rates across South Florida continue to climb, the Miami Herald reports that for the second quarter, foreclosed property made up more than one-in-three home sales. Miami-Dade County reported 4,439 foreclosure sales and Broward County reached almost 5,000 between April and June. And now as fallout from the recent Ally Financial flawed foreclosure documentContinue reading “South Florida vacant properties: Adding premises liability concerns to abandoned property blight”

After being discovered unconscious by their son, a North Miami Beach couple was airlifted to Mercy Hospital where they are being treated in a hyperbaric chamber for carbon monoxide poisoning, CBS-4 reports. A spokesman said the home was equipped with multiple gas appliances and high levels of the odorless, colorless – often deadly – gasContinue reading “North Miami Beach couple poisoned by CO exposure from gas leak spotlights South Florida premises liability and defective product issues”

A 76-year-old resident of the Gainesville Health Care Center was found to have maggots in his eye socket during an examination at a Veterans Administration facility. The Gainesville nursing home where the eye-cancer survivor resides is part of a chain controlled by Maxcine Darville, who was the subject of a Palm Beach Post investigation lastContinue reading “Cases of South Florida nursing home abuse range from simple neglect to the macabe”

A 12-year-old Swain Middle School student was struck and seriously injured Sept. 23 after getting off a school bus and running into the path of a northbound Mercedes-Benz, the Palm Beach Post reports. As our West Palm Beach pedestrian accident attorneys have noted in an early post to our South Florida Injury Lawyer blog, schoolContinue reading “12-year-old school bus rider seriously injured in South Florida pedestrian accident”

A nearly decade-long battle waging between 270 residents of the small community of Tallevast and Fortune 500 giant Lockheed Martin appears to be easing with the pending settlement of a civil suit over contaminated groundwater, the Miami Herald reports. Our South Florida premises liability attorneys have been monitoring the complex case where long-toxic, tainted, propertyContinue reading “Battle between Tallevast residents and Lockheed Martin eases with civil suit settlement over groundwater contamination”