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Children are faced with the difficult decision of what to do when their elderly parents need assistance to live on their own or need the full-time care of a professional nursing environment. We trust in the 24-hour care of a facility to keep our elderly loved one from having a nursing home fall in SouthContinue reading “Fort Lauderdale nursing homes falls often a preventable tragedy”

A fatal Florida car accident killed a 79-year-old Central Florida woman last Sunday and sent three other people – a two-year-old among them – to the hospital, the Ocala Star-Banner reports. The mid-morning crash occurred when a 1995 Mercury Topaz drove through a stop-sign intersection and struck the right-front side of a 2006 Volvo XC90.Continue reading “Side-impact crashes linked to 1 in 5 fatal Fort Lauderdale car accidents”

Our Fort Lauderdale personal injury attorneys are closely monitoring House Bill 177, filed last week by co-sponsors Rep. Jeff Clemens (D-Lake Worth) and Sen. Mike Bennett (R-Bradenton). The bill targets drivers who hang out in the passing lane and prevent come-from-behind encroaching traffic from moving ahead by refusing to move to the right, the DestinContinue reading “Aggressive driving linked to nearly 1,000 fatal Florida car accidents”

The unresponsive body of a four-year-old boy was pulled from a murky residential pool late last Friday, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports. The child was reported missing after he slipped out of his father’s sight. Deputies responding to the missing child report used a helicopter and K-9 units to search for the child. He wasContinue reading “Drowning death of South Florida four-year-old spotlights swimming pool hazards”

The unresponsive body of a four-year-old boy was pulled from a murky residential pool late last Friday, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports. The child was reported missing after he slipped out of his father’s sight. Deputies responding to the missing child report used a helicopter and K-9 units to search for the child. He wasContinue reading “South Florida Injury Lawyers Blog — Page 66 of 76 — Published by Broward County, Florida Personal Injury & Accident Attorneys — Freeman Injury Law”

A shoreline Palm Beach boating accident off Juno Beach last Saturday has left a 14-year-old girl in critical condition with a serious leg injury at St. Mary’s Medical Center, the Palm Beach Post reports. The accident occurred as the girl was attempting to board a 22-ft. Cobia in about three feet of water. She wasContinue reading “Teen critically injured after Palm Beach County boating accident”

A recently released joint report from State Farm Insurance Companies and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) remind us all of the impact of teen driver crashes. These crashes affect the teen driver and their families but let’s not forget about their victims. Our Fort Pierce accident attorneys encourage teen drivers to get as muchContinue reading “Teens not only victims of car accidents in Port St. Lucie, Fort Pierce”

Our Port St. Lucie accident attorneys remind you to stay focused while driving to prevent a serious accident in Fort Pierce or the surrounding area. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood just attended an event celebrating the one-year anniversary of FocusDriven. This organization is the first of its kind dedicated to helping victims of distracted driving.Continue reading “Feds continue fight against distracted driving; common cause of car accidents in Port St. Lucie, Fort Pierce”

Making the decision to put a loved one in a long term care facility isn’t easy. The words ‘Nursing Home’ strike fear into many of our elderly and with good reason. Our Fort Lauderdale nursing home neglect lawyers understand this difficult decision. Just the other day the St. Petersburg Times reported on a Largo nursingContinue reading “Nursing home neglect a tragic risk in West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale”

Large trucks are less maneuverable, have large blind spots, take longer to stop and they accelerate more slowly than other vehicles. Extra caution needs to be taken when driving around them to avoid a West Palm Beach trucking accident. The Sun Sentinel reported a multi-vehicle crash on I-95 last Friday morning trapping a state trooperContinue reading “Use care to avoid trucking accidents in Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach”