Automobile Accidents

• Is Your Child's Safety Seat Truly Safe?

  Sandy Grinnell | September 03, 2009 9:53 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  National Child Passenger Safety Seat Week is September 12 - 19, sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Auto accidents are the number one cause of death in children...

• Laws Hide Insurance Coverage From Juries

  Ed Normand | July 16, 2009 3:18 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  In Florida and many other states there is a little known law that prevents juries evaluating a civil case from knowing about the existence of insurance. Whether or not someone is insured and how...

• Insurance Companies Denying Payment For Jaws Of Life

  Ed Normand | January 31, 2009 10:05 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Jaws of life are used by fire and rescue personnel as part of their lifesaving work in extricating victims from accident wreckage. The goal is to prevent and minimize injury to victims as part of...

• SUV Rollover Kills Five, Injures Three on Florida's Turnpike

  Sandy Grinnell | October 23, 2008 7:23 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  An SUV filled with passengers returning from church services in Ft. Lauderdale rolled over on the Turnpike late last Friday, killing two adults and three children. Four of those killed were related...

• Summer Vacation Ends Tragically for High School Teens

  Sandy Grinnell | August 05, 2008 9:33 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Two Bloomingdale High School teens are dead and two seriously injured in a two-car accident. It was reported that none of them were wearing their seatbelts. This fact was very disheartening for...

• Web Network Hurting Clients

  Mike Damaso | July 20, 2008 6:25 PM | 1 CommentOrlando, FL

  There has been some concern lately among attorneys regarding social internet networking and how it can either help or harm a legal case. An recent article in the Tampa Tribune / Tampa Bay Online...

• Allstate Barred From Writing New Florida Policies

  Ed Normand | April 06, 2008 7:45 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A Florida Appellate Court ruled Friday that the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation rightfully suspended Allstate from writing new Florida policies because it failed to obey a subpoena regarding...

• Sad Day for Contruction Workers' Family

  Sandy Grinnell | March 26, 2008 6:43 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A 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...

• Fraudulent Accident Ring-leader Admits Guilt

  Sandy Grinnell | March 23, 2008 5:15 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A 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...

• Students Save School Bus from Major Accident

  Sandy Grinnell | October 12, 2007 3:45 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Mariah Hutchinson and Joshua Cosme are heroes at Celebration High School today. They saved their bus from going off the ramp to I-4 when the bus driver had what appeared to be a heart attack. When the bus driver fell over, the bus drifted off the road and bounced off the guard rail several times. Hutchinson managed to grab the wheel to steer the bus while Cosme pulled the emergency break,...