- Diego Madrigal | March 31, 2008 9:39 AM |
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MiscellaneousDozens of spectators at Wrestlemania 24 were injured when the final fireworks display of the night accidentally shot into the crowd. At the conclusion of the show at the Citrus Bowl, one of the lines shooting fireworks broke and went into the crowd, burning several people. Although most of the injuries were minor ones, one person had to be transported to the hospital to treat his burns. This...
- Sandy Grinnell | March 27, 2008 4:45 AM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)A construction crane fell 30 floors and crashed through the roof of a house being used as the construction office of a highrise condo in Miami, killing two men. One was a 59 year-old insurance company inspector; the other was an employee of the construction company who was only 29. Four other employees were hospitalized.The height of the crane was being raised so that it could extend further...
- Ed Normand | March 26, 2008 9:35 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe Hulkster, Terry Bollea, and his wife, Linda, were recently sued for injuries caused by their 17-year-old son Nick Bollea in a recent auto accident. Nick Bollea was driving and crashed into a tree in Clearwater, Florida. The passenger in the car was severely injured, is permanently disabled, and will require extensive medical care for the rest of his life. Some newspapers are claiming...
- Sandy Grinnell | March 26, 2008 6:43 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA 49 year-old man and his 24 year-old son were both killed in the same accident on Florida's Turnpike yesterday morning. The Inverness residents were part of a construction crew wroking on the guardrails just north of the US 301 exit. It was reported that a car collided with the back of a semi trailer and then flew over the guard rail. The two men were repairing the back side of the rail and...
- Sandy Grinnell | March 25, 2008 3:58 PM |
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MiscellaneousSince the full moon had begun to wane, there had to be some other external force effecting air travel this week. Here are the headlines from msnbc.com yesterday:Piece of airliner dislodges... hits passenger window; Pilot's gun fires on US Airways jet; and 747 blows 4 tires, aborts takeoff from LAXThe first incident involved a US Air Boeing 757 traveling from Orlando to Philly. A piece of the...
- Sandy Grinnell | March 23, 2008 5:15 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA man from the Miami-Dade area was convicted and another was arrested this week in connection with PIP fraud perpetrated on insurance companies in South Florida resulting from fake automobile accidents. Alex Sink, Florida's Chief Financial Officer, said this was the fourth and final arrest made by the Florida Division of Insurance Fraud's (DIF) investigation into an insurance fraud ring based...
- Diego Madrigal | March 21, 2008 5:46 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeThankfully for the sick in Minnesota, a surgeon will stop seeing patients after he removed the wrong kidney from a patient. In doing so, the surgeon left a cancerous kidney inside the patient. The surgery was done last Tuesday, but only on Wednesday was it discovered what had happened. To prevent something like this from happening again, the Chief Medical Officer of the hospital said that...
- Diego Madrigal | March 21, 2008 5:05 AM |
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MiscellaneousAn interesting question has been posed in anticipation of the Supreme Court deciding on whether or not to hear a case regarding fantasy baseball. The issue in the case is as to who owns the statistics for baseball players. Is it Major League Baseball, or are they owned by nobody and therefore, free to the world. It is known that Justices Alito and Stevens are big baseball fans, but do they...
- Mike Damaso | March 19, 2008 11:51 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe Orlando Sentinel reported on a crash occurring early Sunday morning in East Orange County. Around 2:30 a.m., a woman was driving a '98 Ford Mustang south on West Christmas Road near Fort Christmas when she failed to negotiate a curve and struck a concrete culvert on the east shoulder. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Two passengers were ejected and suffered injuries, one minor and...
- Sandy Grinnell | March 19, 2008 11:23 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe Oregon police released video this week of the accident involving motorcycle patrolman Officer Clint Chrz last November. The motorcycle camera shows the officer standing by the driver's door of the vehicle he had pulled over. What appears next is shocking to watch. Another vehicle speeding down Pacific Highway struck the officer's motorcycle, which then slammed into the officer. The...
- Mike Damaso | March 19, 2008 11:18 AM |
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Wrongful DeathAccording to a recent article in the press, Chiquita Brands International, Inc., is being sued for wrongful death in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The lawsuit accuses the company of contributing to the deaths of five U.S. missionaries through secretly financing rebel groups in Latin America. The lawsuit claims that Chiquita's protection payments to FARC...
- Sandy Grinnell | March 18, 2008 9:15 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA 60 year-old motorcycle driver crashed his bike into the back of a car as it was turning into a driveway on Sunday near Middleburg Florida. The motorcylce accident threw his wife and him from the bike. They were taken to the Shands hospital in Jacksonville by helicopter where the driver died, but the condition of his wife was not reported. Neither had been wearing a helmet.While the...
- Mike Damaso | March 18, 2008 5:11 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeA jury verdict came down in the medical malpractice / wrongful death lawsuit of Actor John Ritter last Friday. The lawsuit was brought by Ritter's Widow and Children. After two days of deliberation, the jury cleared a cardiologist and a radiologist of negligence. As such, there will be no damage judgment against these doctors. The family claimed that Ritter was misdiagnosed and was provided...
- Diego Madrigal | March 17, 2008 9:17 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA crash on the I-4 exit ramp to Ivanhoe Boulevard left killed a driver and left 2 passengers critically injured this weekend. The victim was driving his Nissan Altima and attempted to exit the ramp driving too fast. The problem was made worse because recent rainstorms had left the road wet. The Altima drove off the ramp, hit a small tree, spun and hit a big pine tree. The exit ramp at...
- Ed Normand | March 14, 2008 4:14 PM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)The Orange County, Florida Health Department confirmed that two tourists were infected with the potentially deadly Legionnaires' disease. The disease is caused by a type of bacteria known as Legionella. These bacteria grow in warm water sources, including swimming pools, spas, water tanks, plumbing containers and, most famously, in building air-conditioning systems. A hotel in Orlando, near...
- Sandy Grinnell | March 13, 2008 6:38 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsThe Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has issued a study on the relatiionship of roof strength in SUV's and injuries sustained in an automobile accident involving a rollover. The study reveals that "roof strength definitely influences injury risk."All passenger vehicles currently on the market meet, some even exceed, the governmental standard for roof strength. Yet, 35% of all...
- Sandy Grinnell | March 12, 2008 5:11 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsTussionex Pennkinetic Extended-Release Suspension is an often prescribed childrens cough suppressant that contains hydrocodone and the extened release antihistamine chlorpheniramine. The Food and Drug Administration has issued this warning because the medication is improperly being used on patients younger than 6 years old, and is being prescribed and administered more frequently than the...
- Sandy Grinnell | March 10, 2008 5:19 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA 21 year-old woman was critically injured and her 20 year-old male passenger was seriously injured in a hit and run near Panama City Florida last Friday. It was felt that rain-slick conditions contributed to the two car crash. The vehicle that left the scene was a white or silver Scion that drove into the path of the the GMC Blazer. The Blazer hit the Scion and rolled over, throwing both...
- Diego Madrigal | March 07, 2008 6:25 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe National Transportation Safety Board's Chairman has issued a statement reminding drivers how dangerous fatigue can be on the road. In the midst of National Sleep Awareness Week, officials would like to remind drivers that many times being tired and fatigued on the road can be the equivalent of, if not worse than, being intoxicated when driving. Fatigue has been found as one of the most...
- Ed Normand | March 07, 2008 6:24 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsHeparin sodium is medication used to thin the blood. It is often administered intravenously. It is used with patients that need kidney dialysis, many types of cardiac surgery, and many other conditions often those involving risk of blood clots. Severe injuries have been reported with this drug recently. The adverse events usually started within minutes of the administration of the ...
- Diego Madrigal | March 07, 2008 9:52 AM |
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MiscellaneousA test used by insurance companies to determine if plaintiffs are "malingerers" or lying has come under scrutiny recently because of its lack of reliability. Under the Fake Bad Scare virtually everyone can be a liar, say experts. For example, The test asks a person to answer true or false to 43 statements, such as "My sleep is fitful and disturbed" and "I have nightmares every few nights."...
- Sandy Grinnell | March 07, 2008 8:53 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsTwo tractor-trailers crashed in unrelated accidents at the same overpass on I-4 in Winter Park last night.At about 11:30 pm a semi lost control on the Wymore overpass and crashed into the guardrail. The tractor ended up hanging over Wymore Road. There were no reports on the condition of the driver, but it took workers serveral hours to clean up the fuel spill.Then at 3:30 am another...
- Sandy Grinnell | March 07, 2008 7:54 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsAt least one young man heeded the seatbelt warning and feels that deed alone saved his life. Reportedly the 18 year-old from the Panhandle of Florida was driving across the Pensacola Bay on Three Mile Bridge Monday. A gust of wind thought to be 30 to 35 miles per hour hit his SUV as he changed to the outside lane. The young man said "The whole drive the car was shaking because the winds were...
- Ed Normand | March 06, 2008 5:54 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeIn a decision just released earlier today the Florida Supreme Court ruled on the scope of the 2004 Florida Constitutional Amendment 7, entitled the "Patients Right to Know" Act. In a ruling that is welcome to consumers and patients who are concerned about the safety of their families when choosing a hospital, our State Supreme Court held in rulings on cases called Florida Hospital Waterman,...
- Sandy Grinnell | March 06, 2008 5:28 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsThe FDA issued an emergency alert today warning consumers of drugs being sold on the Internet falsely claiming that they can prevent or treat sexually transmitted diseases. The products are sold under the names of Tetrasil, Genisil, Aviralex, OXi-MED, Imulux, Beta-mannan, Micronutrient, Qina, and SlicPlus and make claims such as:"Treatment Kills all Herpes Viruses WITHOUT having to use...
- Sandy Grinnell | March 06, 2008 6:39 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA 50 year-old Eustis man was almost home when he lost control of his pickup just enough so that he caught the shoulder of the road on a curve. The pickup rolled over and ended up resting against a fence. Unfortunately the driver was not wearing his seatbelt and was partially thrown from the vehicle and was trapped beneath it. He did not survive the accident.Jay Hamburg of the Olando Sentinel...
- Mike Damaso | March 04, 2008 10:46 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA Casselberry Police officer was suspended after a minor traffic crash late Saturday Night or Sunday Morning. Thankfully, no one was hurt. A urine test on the officer was positive for a foreign substance, but the article in the Orlando Sentinel did not state what the substance was or provide any specifics regarding the collision. The officer was suspended.
- Sandy Grinnell | March 04, 2008 4:55 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsAn 82-yer-old Canadian man has been arrested for a hit and run accident thanks to a man travelling on a moped who witnessed the accident. The Canadain suspect was driving near Arcadia when he rammed his vehicle into a golf cart driven by a 77 year-old man. According to the witness, the driver got out of his car, looked at the situation, then got back into his vehicle and drove on down the...
- Diego Madrigal | March 03, 2008 9:17 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsA motorcyclist and a car passenger were killed early Sunday morning in a tragic wreck on I-4. A speeding BMW was reportedly racing another vehicle when it came upon the motorcyclist and was unable to stop. Earlier reports indicated that the BMW attempted to take evasive action but failed and still hit the motorcycle. The BMW then rolled over, ejecting passengers. The driver may also have...
- Diego Madrigal | March 02, 2008 9:25 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe parents of Jessica Lunsford, the 9 year old girl who was killed by her neighbor John Couey who also was a sex offender, are suing the Citrus County Sheriff's Department for negligence. Mark Lunsford and his attorneys recently appeared on The O'Reilly Factor and said that Sheriff's investigators went to Couey's trailer 4 times but did not search inside. They claim that had the investigators...
- Diego Madrigal | March 01, 2008 5:14 AM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsOn the heels of our recent post regarding increasing ATV accidents, tragedy has struck a local family. A man riding his ATV in Ocoee, apparently had an accident and died at the hospital from traumatic head injuries sustained during his wreck. Police were originally called to the area because of complaints of two ATVs being driven near Laurel Blossom Circle. Upon ariving, police found an...