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Many Floridians fear litigation because they believe it will cost them money. They’ve heard stories about how the expense of taking a matter to court and assume they can’t afford to fight for their legal rights.  The Florida personal injury lawyers at Searcy Denney work on a contingency fee basis, […]

Nearly 6,600 pedestrians perished on U.S. roadways in 2019, according to a Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) figure notably higher than its 2018 counterpart. The problem? Primarily it is the predominance of – and popularity surrounding – sport-utility vehicles (SUVs). If you are an SUV owner, recognize the size and […]

Suffrage Movement Took 100 Years To Unfold in Pre- and Post-Civil War America The first signs of the quest for gender equality at the polls revealed themselves over 45 years before the Confederate artillery shots fired at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Those blasts, as history would have it, sparked […]

University of Florida (UF) cheerleaders will no longer be allowed to perform aerial stunts or tumbles during football games. UF administrators say the decision was not made lightly but the timing is interesting. Three days before the announcement was made in November, a cheerleader for the Orlando Magic fell off […]

The government is releasing information about a growing number of injuries associated with those so-called energy drinks. Among them, 5-Hour Energy, a highly caffeinated energy shot that also contains vitamins and a substance called taurine. It’s marketed to “hardworking adults” who just need a little boost of energy. Since 2009, […]

Today, attorneys Kelly Hyman and Brenda Fulmer filed two more individual lawsuits against Mentor Corporation relating to its ObTape transobturator product which was withdrawn from the market in March of 2006.  The first case was filed on behalf of a Gulf County, Florida woman who was implanted with the defective […]

This is a tough one to believe. A Minneapolis doctor issued a press release going on the attack against plaintiffs’ lawyers who are representing women seriously injured by synthetic mesh used to treat prolapse and incontinence Dr. Jon Nielsen doesn’t let the facts get in the way. Nielsen, a doctor […]

Cal Warriner and Brenda Fulmer of the Searcy Denney Mass Tort Unit filed yet another case against DePuy earlier this month for a client with a defective ASR metal-on-metal hip implant. This latest individual lawsuit was filed on behalf of an Orlando woman who underwent hip implant surgery in late […]

Building the “better mouse trap” sometimes means producing a product that simply does not work the way it is designed to work. It is a process, sometimes, of trial and error. If someone (other than the mouse) is seriously injured by that product, it is called negligence. Building the “better […]

Has it simply become all about bean counters and number crunching for some drug companies?

If you can generate over $1.5.8 billion in sales for (5) years, for a drug you know is defective, can you afford to pay the claims that result from people being hurt or killed?