Jacksonville Personal Injury Lawyer
Discussion of personal injury law and legal issues, with Florida focus.
Author: Eddie Farah, who edits this blawg, is a Florida lawyer.
Blawg Related Categories: Tort Law • Injury & Accident Law • States • Florida • Legal Information
Recent Posts from Jacksonville Personal Injury Lawyer
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FDA Addresses Medical Errors And $4 Billion Pricetag
As we look at saving money on health care spending, Americans should consider drugs, specifically the huge cost of medical errors involving prescriptions. Medication interactions, a mix-up in the pharmacy such as switching out the…
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25-Year-Old Loses Life In I-95 Explorer Rollover
It seems like we are reporting on these Ford Explorer rollover deaths on a weekly basis. Now there has been another. A 25-year-old Orange Park woman lost her life on I-95 Saturday. The Florida Highway…
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Headphones, Pedestrians and Railroad Tracks Don't Mix
This is a very sad story to report out of Auburndale, Florida. An 18-year-old high school student was walking along Amtrak train tracks wearing headphones and apparently didn’t hear an approaching train traveling from Miami…
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Missing Children and The Technology That May Find Them
According to federal statistics, there are about 115 child abductions by strangers every year in this country. Unfortunately this week we had another in the Jacksonville area. The community of Orange Park is in shock…
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Gardasil and Lou Gehrig's Disease - Two Cases
Researchers believe that two separate cases of Lou Gehrig’s Disease in young girls that progressed rapidly following the Gardasil injection may be related to the cervical cancer drug. More than seven million young women and…
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St. Johns County Chamber Joins With AAA To Get Serious About Texting
The government estimates that there are 5,800 deaths caused by distracted motorists. St Johns County Sheriff’s officer, Col. Art May says he is seeing them more and more. Often it presents as a swerving car.…
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Ford Recall of 4.5 Million Vehicles Over Fire Danger
Ford Motor Company has issued its largest single recall in history this week alerting drivers to a fire hazard from a faulty switch. This is the eighth recall of the faulty Fords, this time involving…
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Separate Incidents Kill Two Elderly Drivers
A question we often get in Florida is - how old is too old to drive? This generally comes from the adult children of elderly drivers who are concerned that they may be liable if…
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Erin Brockovich Focuses On Florida Cancer Cluster Case
Environmental crusader, Erin Brockovich is coming to Florida to speak to residents and health officials and to host a Town Hall meeting Thursday night to talk about the cancer cluster at the South Florida community…
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Overloaded SUV Rolls And Kills 8-Year-Old boy
An eight-year-old boy was killed Saturday when an SUV, fill with kids going to a church event, rolled on I-95. The single-vehicle crash occurred 4:45 p.m. near the Volusia and Flagler county line. The ten…