A 34-year-old Central Florida man was killed when his motorcycle was hit by a drunk driver who lost control while driving someone else’s car. The driver was convicted of DUI manslaughter and is currently serving a 15 year sentence.
Our firm represented the man’s widow to recover damages resulting from the wrongful death [...]

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 [...]

Health care giant Johnson & Johnson has spent a reported $68.7 million to settle hundreds of lawsuits filed by women who suffered personal injury after using the company’s Ortho Evra birth-control patch. Twenty wrongful deaths are blamed on the birth-control patch which is alleged to cause medical problems involving deep-vein thrombosis, blood clots and [...]

The Florida Highway Patrol has determined that a tractor-trailer driver was on his cell phone when he crashed into the back of a school bus in Marion County, Florida. This certainly explains how such a catastrophic accident could have happened.
The truck driver was so distracted by his cell phone that he left [...]

The HealthGrades Guide to America’s Hospitals and Doctors was released last month with important information for consumers about the quality of virtually every hospital in the country. The reference guide also devotes several chapters to getting the best medical care, from finding the best doctor and hospital to protecting yourself from medical errors.
Medical errors [...]

An estimated 1.7 million patients acquire an infection while hospitalized and a startling 99,000 patients die from hospital-acquired infections each year, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
This is not a new problem for the medical community, which has been slow to take action. What [...]