Tampa Personal Injury Blog
Posted on May 3, 2013
McLane Middle School in Brandon, Florida is in disarray today after at least 93 students and teachers have suffered from exposure to pepper spray. According to My Fox Tampa Bay, dozens of students and ...
Continue reading "Dozens Fall Ill from Pepper Spray Brandon Junior High School" »
Posted on Apr 29, 2013
This week there were two very serious accidents in the Tampa Bay area involving motorcycles and a bicycle and a scooter. Usually, the motorcycle is dangerously outweighed when involved in an accident ...
Continue reading "Bikes and Scooters Watch Out for Motorcycles Too" »
Posted on Apr 28, 2013
The Governor's Highway Safety Association released a new study this week with a startling conclusion: motorcycle deaths are rising in Florida and across the United States at an alarming rate. At a ...
Continue reading "Motorcycle Deaths on the Rise" »
Posted on Apr 25, 2013
You have heard the horror stories on the news. We have discussed them numerous times on this blog. Helpless nursing home patients abused or neglected by untrained or uncaring staff. Another less ...
Continue reading "Nursing Home Abuse Can Be Committed by Patients" »
Posted on Apr 24, 2013
According to a report in the Miami Herald, 70 people died in State Assisted Living Facilities over the past 8 years. This is especially disturbing when you consider the role of an Assisted Living ...
Continue reading "Assisted Living Facilities Can Be Deadly" »
Posted on Apr 23, 2013
6 years ago Rosalie Manor in downtown Dunedin Florida was the poster child for the failures in our Assisted Living and Nursing Home care system. The abuse and neglect at Rosalie Manor sounded more ...
Continue reading "Rosalie Manor, From Horrible to Hopeful" »
Posted on Apr 22, 2013
2 years ago Hillsborough County was the epicenter of insurance fraud not only in Florida, but throughout the United States. More incidents of personal injury protection (PIP) fraud occurred in ...
Continue reading "PIP Fraud Improving" »
Posted on Apr 20, 2013
The right to privacy is one of the things that makes being a citizen of the United States such a great honor. We must remain free of unreasonable intrusions into our private lives. However, the ...
Continue reading "Boston Marathon Bombing; Thankfully Big Brother was Watching" »
Posted on Apr 18, 2013
St. Thomas Moore nursing home in Hyattsville, MD is a prime example of why the National Medicare List of "Special Focus Facilities" of nursing homes with a persistent history of poor quality ...
Continue reading "Does the Nursing Home Watch List Mean Anything?" »
Posted on Apr 17, 2013
The motive to use a "revenge porn" site is clear. Hatred, pain, suffering, humiliation. It cannot be justified and it should not be protected by the constitution or under the guise of ...
Continue reading "Revenge Porn Must be Out-lawed" »
Posted on Apr 16, 2013
Automobile accidents are a fact of life. And the police have many tools and laws at their disposal to try and prevent them before they happen. Usually, speeders and reckless drivers are blamed for car ...
Continue reading "Stop Driving Slow in the Left Lane" »
Posted on Apr 13, 2013
This blog has posted several times in the last few months on the potential dangers posed by some Specialty Pharmacies around the country. The focus of the problem was the New England Compounding ...
Continue reading "Two Tampa Area Compounding Pharmacies Cited By FDA" »
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
Jana Mallory of Tampa, Florida was sentenced this week to 30 years in prison for murder and elder abuse. 78 year-old Peggy Albury died in August, 2008 from massive overuse of prescription medications. ...
Continue reading "Home HealthCare Can Be Dangerous" »
Posted on Apr 8, 2013
You see them everywhere you go on vacation. Cancun, Key West, the Bahamas even Clearwater Beach. The scooters are often brightly colored and ridden in tandem by visitors trying to get a local ...
Continue reading "Rent a Scooter on Vacation at Your Own Peril" »
Posted on Apr 7, 2013
ATVs are fun. All-Terrain Vehicles are also very dangerous. They are very fast, unstable, unprotected, and often used by inexperienced drivers on dangerous terrain. Increasingly, the number and ...
Continue reading "ATV Accidents Rise Among Children" »
Posted on Apr 5, 2013
Painkiller abuse is killing Americans at an epidemic level. Over 200 million opioid prescriptions for medications like OxyContin and Hydrocodone are prescribed annually. The heroin like drugs are ...
Continue reading "Emergency Rooms in New York City to Limit Painkiller Distribution" »
Posted on Apr 2, 2013
There was a horrific car wreck in Tampa on April 1, 2013. The driver was tragically killed when she was ejected from the car as it rolled over in the accident. If she had been old enough to walk, the ...
Continue reading "Child Safety Seats...It's the Law, and Common Sense" »
Posted on Apr 1, 2013
Tickets for Red Light cameras in several Pinellas County Cities have been wiped out by prosecutors who deemed unfair or needlessly cumbersome to pursue. Appeals of tickets by car owners who claimed ...
Continue reading "Red Light Cameras...More Then a Nuisance" »
Posted on Mar 31, 2013
The epidemic of staged car accidents and insurance fraud in Florida is hurting everyone except the criminals profiting from the practice. Auto insurance rates are sky high. Legitimate Chiropractors, ...
Continue reading "Staged Auto Accidents Must Be Stopped" »
Posted on Mar 29, 2013
The U.S. Supreme Court heard last week arguments in a case that could might make it easier for individuals to sue generic drug manufacturers for injuries or deaths caused by their products. Karen ...
Continue reading "New Ways to Sue Generic Drugmakers" »
Posted on Mar 28, 2013
Bingo, shuffleboard, maybe a dance. These are the type of things you might expect when you entrust your loved one to an Assisted Living Facility or Nursing Home in Florida. But who is caring for the ...
Continue reading "How Safe is Your Assisted Living Facility?" »
Posted on Mar 27, 2013
Nursing home lobbyists spend millions of dollars annual to convince Florida lawmakers to protect the homes from the patients they house. The home Owners and Operators don't want to be held ...
Continue reading "Protect the Nursing Homes? Or protect the Patients?" »
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
Yesterday, 87 year-old Lorraine Bayless died of a heart attack in Bakersfield California. She lived a long life, and you might think at 87 it was her time to go. Nursing home abuse and neglect can be ...
Continue reading "Don't Have a Heart Attack in a Nursing Home" »
Posted on Mar 3, 2013
Only this week, a Hillsborough County resident was killed when a sinkhole opened under his home in the middle of the night. J.B. was swallowed up by the earth but the five other people were able to ...
Continue reading "Sinkholes Can be Deadly AND Expensive" »
Posted on Mar 2, 2013
Red Light Cameras are supposed to reduce accidents at busy intersections. In St. Petersburg they have run into a troubling problem. What happens when someone else is driving your car and they get ...
Continue reading "Red Light Ticket In St. Pete? The System is Broken" »