Next month, the Florida Legislature will consider a bill to prohibit the operation of a moving vehicle while reading, manually writing or typing, or sending messages on electronic wireless communication devices, according to a report in the Gainesville Sun. Seven states already prohibit text messaging while driving and nine other states ban the practice [...]

An Orange County, Florida sports bar is under investigation for serving a teenager alcohol before he lost control of his car and died. The teen’s family believes the bar should be held responsible if the allegations are true, and I agree.
Unfortunately, this is an all too familiar story. Many times, businesses that sell [...]

Our firm recently represented a Central Florida woman who was severely injured in a horrific car accident caused when another driver ran a stop sign. The car accident left her with permanent injuries to her neck, back, shoulders, knees, legs and ankle, and persistent pain that, at times, requires her to walk with a [...]

Who didn’t see this one coming? The family of an employee trampled to death by bargain-hunting holiday shoppers at a New Jersey Walmart has filed a wrongful death lawsuit, saying the store’s ads offering deep discounts created an unsafe environment. Anybody who’s seen the video footage of the store’s frantic customers knew this [...]

The Florida Bar spent nearly half its annual budget — about $10 million – investigating grievances against about 7,800 attorneys from September 2007 to August 2008, according to the Orlando Sentinel. A large majority of the complaints (about 80 percent) were dismissed because the Bar determined there was no ethics violation or not enough [...]

The Florida Board of Medicine disciplined five Orlando area doctors this month for making serious medical errors. The doctors’ mistakes included operating on the wrong disc in a patient’s back, operating on the wrong testicle of a patient and implanting the wrong kind of lens during a cataract procedure. The doctors were order [...]