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personal-injury

New Tax Law Affects Personal Injury Settlements

While many people have focused on the new tax law’s significant effects on alimony payments and divorce, as recently pointed out by Forbes magazine, not enough people have thought...
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medical-malpractice

Conditions Frequently Misdiagnosed As Depression

It’s no secret that medical errors hurt and kill a significant number of people each year. But what about all of the people this affects who may not even...
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nursing-home-abuse
personal-injury

Florida Nursing Homes Fail To Comply With Mandatory Generator Requirement for Resident Safety

Even though the tragedy involving people dying in nursing homes last year in Hollywood, Florida after Hurricane Irma dominated news headlines, and led to some important changes in terms...
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wrongful-death

Wrongful Death Lawsuits When Police Officers Shoot a Young Child

Wrongful death doesn’t just encompass losing a loved one due to a medical mistake or car accident that was someone else’s fault—sometimes, people that we trust, such as police...
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medical-malpractice
medical-negligence
personal-injury

Federal Jury Awards $18.4 Million to Patient Not Properly Tested For HIV

In June, a federal judge awarded almost $18.5 million in damages to a man whose previous doctors failed to test him for HIV in spite of obvious risk factors...
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personal-injury
wrongful-death

Federal Jury Awards Families $385.5 Over DaVita Dialysis Product GranuFlo

In late June, a federal jury ordered dialysis machine giant DaVita Inc. to pay three families $385.5 million for the wrongful death of three patients after the jury found...
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negligent-security
personal-injury
premises-liability

Report on Florida Roller Coaster That Derailed Demonstrates Negligence

On July 10, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services released its preliminary investigation report on last month’s derailment of the Daytona Beach roller coaster that sent six...
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personal-injury
workers-compensation

Poultry Processing Plants & Worker Injuries

When we think of injuries sustained on the job, we often think of construction site accidents, slip and falls, perhaps injuries based on repetitive actions, such as carpal tunnel...
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personal-injury
wrongful-death

Wrongful Death in Florida Convenience Store Parking Lot Shooting

Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law has received a significant amount of attention in the press lately, especially surrounding the well-publicized incident in late July that involved one man being...
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