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A personal injury lawsuit stemming from a New Year’s Eve DUI crash has been settled for $1 million, according to the victim’s lawyers. The 26-year-old victim suffered multiple fractured vertebrae in her back when the vehicle in which she was riding rolled over and struck a tree. The driver, now 31, had reportedly taken herContinue reading “DUI Injury Watch: Intoxication Among Drivers Not Always Obvious”

Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeals is allowing a slip-and-fall lawsuit to move forward against a South Florida hospital, but it simultaneously undercut the ability for the plaintiff to make a strong argument for damages. West Palm Beach injury attorneys recognize that slip-and-fall lawsuits have become tougher to win in Florida just over the lastContinue reading “Denniser v. Columbia Hospital Corp. – Slip-and-Fall Claim Falls Flat”

As summer arrives, Florida residents will continue to see a rise in water-related injuries and fatalities, including swimming accidents, drowning, and boating collisions. Earlier this month a popular South Florida radio DJ was involved in a boating accident in Key Biscayne that resulted in the death of a 23-year-old bystander. According to reports, “DJ Laz”Continue reading “Popular South Florida DJ Involved in Tragic Boating Accident”

Filing a medical malpractice lawsuit in Florida involves meeting a very specific set of criteria. It’s a more intensive process than filing a general personal injury lawsuit because this type of litigation tends to be very complex. Among the differences: There is a shorter statute of limitations, a requirement of certain expert witnesses to affirmContinue reading “Dawkins v. Union Hospital – Not All Hospital Injuries are Medical Malpractice”

Year-round sunshine is one of the many reasons people flock to Florida. It’s also one of the reasons so many residents have pools, and why Florida has the highest unintentional drowning rate in the country for children between the ages of 1 and 14. It’s for this reason that legislators passed the Residential Swimming PoolContinue reading “Swimming Pool Owners Have Legal Duty to Safeguard”

Anti-drunk driving advocacy groups tend to be united in the core common goal of slashing the number of deaths and injuries caused by impaired drivers. But now, DUI injury attorneys in Fort Lauderdale note conflict brewing among various factions regarding how to best accomplish this goal. On the one side is Mothers Against Drunk DrivingContinue reading “New Approach to Fort Lauderdale DUI Crash Prevention Proposed”

Anti-drunk driving advocacy groups tend to be united in the core common goal of slashing the number of deaths and injuries caused by impaired drivers. But now, DUI injury attorneys in Fort Lauderdale note conflict brewing among various factions regarding how to best accomplish this goal. On the one side is Mothers Against Drunk DrivingContinue reading “South Florida Injury Lawyers Blog — Page 31 of 76 — Published by Broward County, Florida Personal Injury & Accident Attorneys — Freeman Injury Law”

In the last several decades, the variety of beauty treatment providers has exploded. No longer are care regiments limited to the local hair salon down the street. Consumers have their choice of hot wax and lasers and injections and white-hot bulbs and powerful chemicals and more. Of course, as our beauty salon injury lawyers inContinue reading “Beauty Salon Lawsuits in Broward Require Thorough Investigation”

Not long ago, a video surfaced that quickly went viral. It depicted a motorcycle rider in Southern California plowing into a group of bicyclists along Mulholland Drive, sending the cyclists flying. As frightening as the video is, our Palm Beach bicycle accident attorneys find the notes made in the “comments” section even scarier. One wrote,Continue reading “Palm Beach Bicycle Accident Attorneys Explore Psychology of Bicycle Rage”

On the surface, the issue of liability in a bar room brawl would seemingly be limited to those involved. However, the Florida Supreme Court in Dorsey v. Reider ruled that third parties can be held liable where the plaintiff can show those parties owed the plaintiff a legal duty of care, and that this dutyContinue reading “Dorsey v. Reider – Florida Supreme Court Weighs Bar Fight Liability”