Monthly Archives: September 2025
Accidents on Class Field Trips
If you are trying to impress your future in-laws or rushing for a sorority or fraternity in college, you can reliably convince your newfound family that you are interesting by telling stories about when you survived a near miss with disaster. In Florida, the stories about brushes with danger that could only have happened… Read More »
Amusement Park Ride Injuries and Pre-Existing Medical Conditions
Pre-existing medical conditions are evidence of your longevity and uniqueness; once you reach a certain age, everyone has them, and everyone has a unique story about how they got there. When it comes to filing health insurance claims, or even worse, personal injury claims, insurers use your pre-existing medical conditions as an excuse to… Read More »
How Does the Weather Affect Your Premises Liability Claim?
Florida does not have much snow, especially not in its southernmost counties. One winter’s day in 1984, the temperature dropped to 28 degrees in Broward County, and a thin coating of ice appeared on some blades of grass on people’s lawns; the citrus trees froze, and people are still talking about it today. It… Read More »
First Aid Errors at Recreational Facilities
Children are naturally accident-prone, and adults who work at places where children play and otherwise conduct the ordinary business of life must receive training in basic first aid as part of the job requirements. Every classroom and school bus has a first aid kit, so that teachers and bus drivers can attend to children’s… Read More »
An Experimental Treatment for Chronic Pain
When you first go to the emergency room after sustaining an acute injury, it is not always easy to tell whether, a year from now, this day will be a funny story you can tell at parties or the dreaded moment that separated the previous times from your painful new normal. The injuries that… Read More »
Notice of Intent to Sue for Medical Malpractice
These days, everyone who can forward emails or scroll through social media feeds thinks they know more about your health than you do, but the more you learn about medicine, the less simple it is. If you have ever had a medical problem that required treatment by more than one specialist, you might have… Read More »
Medication Errors During Surgery
To practice medicine is to make life or death decisions quickly, based on a nearly infinite array of factors. The creators of online content about the alleged incompetence or greed of physicians can run their mouths all day long about what the doctors should have done in a given situation, but in the end,… Read More »
Slip and Fall Accidents in Hospitals
Accidental falls are a leading cause of injury in many situations where you might not expect them. The parents of children who have just learned to climb might worry constantly about falls on the playground, but playgrounds are designed in such a way that falls, which are almost inevitable, usually do not cause severe… Read More »
