Category Archives: Auto Accidents
Car Accidents Involving Victims From Out of State
Some states share borders with more other states than there are cardinal directions, but the same cannot be said of Florida. Most of its nearest neighbors are aquatic ecosystems; its only land borders are with Georgia and Alabama, and if you live in the southern part of the peninsula and you head north on… Read More »
Young Man Dies Trying to Cross Road in Tampa
Some stretches of road in Florida are notoriously dangerous for pedestrians. Everyone in South Florida knows about the eerily dark stretch of Federal Highway where pedestrians keep getting hit by cars. The reason Florida has so many pedestrian accidents are the same reasons that people get hit by cars in so many parts of… Read More »
Devastating Five-Vehicle Collision in Lake Wales
Lake Wales is the tourist destination you choose when you want an uneventful vacation with just a hint of the uncanny. There are beautiful but boring stately homes like Chalet Suzanne and the now abandoned Walesbilt Hotel. The Singing Tower of Bok Gardens, where 60 bells ring out at the top of a tower… Read More »
Country Clubs and Dram Shop Liability
The textbook example of a dram shop liability case, where a person who got injured in a drunk driving accident sues the bar that served alcohol to the drunk driver who caused the accident, involves bar employees who were too distracted or busy to know how drunk the drunk driver was. Maybe it was… Read More »
Valet Parking Services and Dram Shop Liability
When you drive for a living, you are acutely aware of how other people’s safety depends on your vigilance. For example, being a truck driver sounds like fun if you enjoy the open road; you get to leave your troubles behind while you listen to your favorite jams or podcasts, hour after hour, while… Read More »
Deadly Three-Vehicle Collision on Highway 301
Alcohol and excessive speed are among the leading causes of fatal car accidents, but the proximate events that lead to fatal injuries can happen even in the absence of those factors. People are much more likely to die in car accidents if they get ejected from the vehicle than if they stay inside. That… Read More »
Pedestrian Killed During Drunk Driver’s Wild Ride
South Florida is a notoriously difficult place for pedestrians. Most metropolitan areas in the world with a population comparable to that of Miami and its suburbs, which sprawl across several counties, have more robust public transportation options. We do have commuter trains, but you do not have to follow the news especially carefully to… Read More »
What Came First? The Wrongful Death Lawsuit or the DUI Manslaughter Case?
Drunk driving often leads to criminal charges, but if a driver causes an accident while driving under the influence of alcohol, the people injured in the accident also have the right to file a personal injury lawsuit in civil court. Fatality DUI collisions can result in a DUI manslaughter conviction for the driver, as… Read More »
Holiday DUI Accidents
The tensions between women in the same family can be the stuff of cheap, reality TV grade drama, or, in the hands of a more skillful writer, insightful explorations of the human condition. Relationships between mothers and daughters are a perennial favorite topic of book critics and everyday readers alike, and twists on the… Read More »
Intentional Motor Vehicle Collisions
Lawyers use language in strange ways, and it is more than just the Latin phrases. When you attend a consultation with a lawyer, the lawyer might tell you that a term you have been using in every conversation with anyone about the matter you are currently discussing with your lawyer is inaccurate. For example,… Read More »
