September 16-22 is Child Passenger Safety Week in Florida Governor Rick Scott has declared September next week Child Passenger Safety Week in Florida and September 22nd as National Seat Check Saturday, calling upon all parents and caregivers to exercise responsibility to keep America’s children safe by helping to reduce injuries […]
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“Now I’ve been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is why must we go on hating, why can’t we just live in bliss” -Cat Stevens ‘Peace Train’ While I certainly share in the singer/songwriters desire for peace and am moved when I hear this song, it is the […]
Do insurance companies in Florida need a piece of bailout legislation? Florida legislators seem dedicated to providing some legislation this year to deal with fraud occurring in the arena of Personal Injury Protection (PIP) insurance coverage. PIP is a part of required coverage for auto owners in Florida. In the […]
A problem with fraud exists. In New York, officials believe that fraud is a crime and that the criminals perpetrating the crime should be arrested and punished. In Florida, our lawmakers believe that fraud is a crime and that consumers should be punished. So goes the course of a bill […]
If you are a patient at a hospital, don’t you think you should have the right to know whether anything bad happened to you while you were there? For years, health care providers in Florida were able to withhold records from a patient that were created as a direct result […]
The new Personal Injury Protection (PIP) legislation being trumpeted by Rick Scott and Kevin McCarty (insurance commissioner) is simply a series of methods to attack a problem by saddling honest consumers with more regulation and less benefit. The claim is that the PIP system is so filled with fraud that […]
You can not drink alcohol and drive a motor vehicle safely. Period. We are fast approaching “tis the season” with Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years nearly upon us and it is a good time to remind ourselves of important aspects of being safe while making jolly. Think about it. You […]
A study released in the journal Pediatrics found that children driven by their grandparents are less likely to suffer from a serious injury if involved in a crash. Dr. Fred Henretig, an emergency medicine specialist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and lead author of the study said that the study […]
Tragically, your wife, your husband, your child suffers severe injury or death because someone else did not exercise reasonable care. Your elderly mother dies because a for profit nursing home demonstrating millions in profit fails to provide sufficient staff to care for its residents. A stage collapses and kills several […]
Perhaps the abysmal performance of the Toyota executives in their delay in recalling vehicles with sudden acceleration and braking problems has led to an increase in vehicle manufacturer vigilance in monitoring their own vehicles for possible safety problems. On the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration site is found the July […]