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Editor’s Note: The majority of this article contains copyrighted information, which has been reprinted through the kind permission of the Florida Association of Insurance Agents. Only the first eight paragraphs of introduction are of original content. You can visit the Florida Association of Insurance Agents’ website at: www.faia.com Who has […]

The Lord’s Place began as a soup kitchen in 1979 and now gives homeless families hope for the future. The Lord’s Place provides homeless families with a haven in which to begin rebuilding their lives. The Lord’s Place is holding its 2nd Annual Ending Homelessness Breakfast on November 6, 2009, […]

WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA (August 21, 2009) – The Florida law firm of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley (Searcy Denney) announced today that a jury has awarded $7,800,000 in compensatory damages to an Escambia County, Florida man following the death of his wife due to her addiction to nicotine contained in cigarettes. […]

St. Mary’s Hospital in West Palm Beach issued a statement relating to the wrong medication errors during the treatment of Tesome Sampson and her unborn child: “On Sept. 4, 2008, a patient came to St. Mary’s in extremely premature labor. Due to a medication error, the patient was given medication […]

Phillip Morris was found to be 38% at fault in the death of a smoker. This is the verdict delivered by a jury of good citizens on August 14, 2009, in Broward County, Florida. Philip Morris and their lawyers, presumably, blame the judge and bad rulings made by him. Altria’s […]

I am busy–really busy. Everyone in our firm is busy–real busy. No matter how busy, though, I am glad that occasionally, I take the time to be thankful for what I have–including being busy. When I see people less fortunate than me or my family, I am thankful for the […]

Pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers sell their wares for a profit. Nothing wrong with that. If I sold widgets, I would certainly want to generate a profit. If my widgets carried with them the potential to cause severe injury and death though, I would have the absolute responsibility to not […]

There is an old saying that if you have your health you have everything.  Anyone who has ever suffered a debilitating injury or lost a loved one to injury or disease knows this reality all too well.  We are also told by medical experts that an ounce of prevention is […]

There are certain drug compounds that I, as a consumer, can not purchase without the permission (think prescription here) of a licensed physician. There is very good reason for this. There are drugs for which the use must be weighed and evaluated by trained medical people. In some cases the […]

The harvesting of bodily tissues without consent is considered battery; however, using tissue previously removed during medical procedures to facilitate research experiments is not prohibited.  Without tissue donations, the production of certain biomedical products would be impossible to produce. Recent law, however, has sided with pharmaceutical companies by stating that […]