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Increasingly, companies and service providers require consumers to sign liability waivers, effectively agreeing to sign away their right to seek recompense should injury result from the activity or service. In large part, courts have upheld the viability of these documents, considered formal legal contracts. This is why people must be extremely wary in signing theseContinue reading “DeCormier v. Harley-Davidson – Liability Waiver Enforceability Challenged”

In some personal injury actions, parties involved may come to find certain pieces of key evidence were destroyed, altered or simply lost. This is referred to as “spoliation of evidence,” and because it can have such a profound impact on one side’s ability to prove its case, courts tend to respond rather harshly – regardlessContinue reading “Hollywood slip-and-fall lawyer Tag Archives”

In some personal injury actions, parties involved may come to find certain pieces of key evidence were destroyed, altered or simply lost. This is referred to as “spoliation of evidence,” and because it can have such a profound impact on one side’s ability to prove its case, courts tend to respond rather harshly – regardlessContinue reading “Premise Liability Category Archives — Page 4 of 5”

In some personal injury actions, parties involved may come to find certain pieces of key evidence were destroyed, altered or simply lost. This is referred to as “spoliation of evidence,” and because it can have such a profound impact on one side’s ability to prove its case, courts tend to respond rather harshly – regardlessContinue reading “South Florida Injury Lawyers Blog — Page 27 of 76 — Published by Broward County, Florida Personal Injury & Accident Attorneys — Freeman Injury Law”

In some personal injury actions, parties involved may come to find certain pieces of key evidence were destroyed, altered or simply lost. This is referred to as “spoliation of evidence,” and because it can have such a profound impact on one side’s ability to prove its case, courts tend to respond rather harshly – regardlessContinue reading “Bilesky v. Shopko – Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence”

In some personal injury actions, parties involved may come to find certain pieces of key evidence were destroyed, altered or simply lost. This is referred to as “spoliation of evidence,” and because it can have such a profound impact on one side’s ability to prove its case, courts tend to respond rather harshly – regardlessContinue reading “Hollywood premises liability attorney Tag Archives”

In the first federal lawsuit against Boston Scientific Corp. over its defective vaginal mesh product, the company has been ordered by jurors in a Miami federal court to pay nearly $27 million to four Florida women who say they were injured by the medical devices. Although the company faces some 23,000 lawsuits over the problem,Continue reading “Boston Scientific to Pay $27M in Federal Vaginal Mesh Trial in Florida”

An unforeseen household accident ended tragically when a Florida man was electrocuted while installing a new dishwasher. According to reports, the 33-year-old victim was killed when his wedding ring came in contact with a live wire. Police in South Daytona said that the man was at his in-laws home helping to install a new dishwasher.Continue reading “Florida Man Electrocuted When Wedding Ring Struck Live Wire”

Parents who use day care services to help with their family responsibilities should be wary of the potential for negligence and abuse. As with any for-profit caretaking business, it is important to screen individual workers as well as the record of the day care facility. A Florida day care owner will face criminal charges afterContinue reading “Florida Day Care Owner Charged in Toddler’s Death”

There was a time when bullying – even severe bullying – was scene as strictly within the purview of schools and parents and those youth involved. Increasingly, however, as awareness has risen and cyberbullying makes harassment almost inescapable, these matters are being handled by the courts. In Florida, a Coral Springs mother filed a lawsuitContinue reading “Haynes v. Middletown – School Bullying Lawsuits on the Rise”