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Earlier this year, the Florida  legislature passed Personal Injury Protection (PIP) “reform” that severely limited the extent of coverage provided by insurance companies under PIP. The reform promised to lower PIP premiums; that result has been lukewarm in saving consumers any money. Now some legislators and other state officials would […]

While the Ford Motor Company seems to be enjoying record stockholder interest the company has just announced it is recalling 33,000 of its 2013 C-Max model automobiles. According to a report in The Washington Post, the problem is that occupants may be subjected to more than an acceptable risk of traumatic head injury in a crash.

If you’ve been following the 100th Tour de France, you will know it is nearing the final stages of the 23 day race.  The Tour is a paragon of strength and endurance where the racers push themselves to unimaginable extremes, fighting through exhaustion, pain, and injury. It is nearly impossible […]

How does the crash of Asiana Flight 214 at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) make you feel about flying? Are your feelings strong enough to prevent you from air travel in the future or do you choose to fly anyway? Of course, with any means of travel there is […]

How do you find a lawyer and what information do you want to know before deciding on the lawyer you ultimately hire? We have written several articles discussing this subject: Picking the Best Attorney — Picking Just the “Right” Lawyer What are “lawyer referral services”? When Should You Hire an […]

I, and the other attorneys in my firm, represent people who experience tragedies in their lives. Sometimes clients do receive justice. Sometimes the defendants make honest mistakes, other times their neglect is particularly egregious. The case I recently tried, with Greg Barnhart and Matt Schwencke in my firm, was flagrant […]

I have been asked by friends and family: “how do you pick a trial lawyer?” I even have those calls about my friend needing a lawyer and wanting the “meanest, nastiest lawyer you know”. So, how do you pick a lawyer or law firm? Should you base it on a […]

“Be extra careful driving late at night.  You are likely going to be sharing the road with drunk drivers.”  If your parents were like mine when I started driving in South Florida, you likely heard this familiar warning many times.  Unfortunately, they were sometimes right.  If my two children were […]

It can happen to any one of us, almost anywhere and usually it is over within seconds. We sometimes have no control over it and it can cause us and our loved ones untold injury. It is an automobile accident and the incidences of them in Palm Beach County are […]

Laws involving things like injury from automobile accidents and coverage in automobile insurance should not be “gotcha laws”. But, that is what the new personal injury protection laws which took effect on July 31st will do. Last year, Florida’s governor and legislators championed a revision to Florida’s “Personal Injury Protection” […]