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• Mother Causes Disturbance on School Bus

  Eddie Farah | May 12, 2007 8:07 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It was a normal morning ride to Booker T. Washington Elementary School in Tampa. That is until the bus driver opened the doors and let in a mother and her two daughters. Then all hell broke loose.Shayla Muldrow was caught on a school bus videotape. First she asked the driver which girl slapped her daughter.At that point the driver should have been on notice that this woman was up to no good. ...

• Chrysler Recalling Over 400,000 Vehicles for Airbag Defect

  Christina Cole | May 11, 2007 11:15 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  DaimlerChrysler is recalling 2005 Dodge Caravans and Chrysler Town & Country Minivans. Chrysler will fix all defective air bags that may not deploy due to corrosion on the sensors. More than 400,000 vehicles are affected by the auto recall.The recall affects vehicles sold and registered in states that use large amounts of road salt. This is yet another widely criticized regional recall....

• PIP Due To Sunset After Lobbyists Clash in Legislature

  Eddie Farah | May 11, 2007 12:29 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  It was a long fought fight. The Senate this legislative session had come up with a four year extention to PIP (Personal Injury Protection) that provides $10,000 in hospital coverage when drivers are involved in an auto accident, even when they don't have medical insurance. But the lobbyists for insurance companies fought back arguing that PIP is full of fraud and anyone can claim injuries.In...

• Beware Infant Car Seat Carriers

  Robert Blanchard | May 11, 2007 10:29 AM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL

  You want to do the right thing. Even before your child was born, you ran out and purchased what appeared to be a quality infant car seat. You read the instructions and installed it properly. You never took your new child for a ride without buckling her in. Then the unimagible happens, when using the seat as a child carrier, as designed by the manufacturer, the handle collapses and spills your...

• Farmed Fish May Contain Melamine

  Eddie Farah | May 10, 2007 8:35 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  When you shop for groceries, increasingly you see that the fish counter is offering versions of farmed over wild fish.Besides antibiotic use in these farmed fish tanks, and color enhancer to make salmon the same deep color as its wild varieties -- now comes word that melamine, the plastic component found in what's now identified as wheat flour from China linked to the massive pet food recall,...

• Cops Behaving Badly in Tampa

  Eddie Farah | May 09, 2007 10:25 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  I would hope that law enforcement in Jacksonville would be more understanding than this officer who's been accused of abusing his authority.He doesn't have much of an excuse, it was all caught on videotape. Melissa Langston was clocked going 63 in a 35 mile per hour zone. On the videotape you can see her relief when the officer pulls her over. Finally she can get an escort to the hospital...

• Personal Injury Insurance rates set to drop

  Evan Rosen | May 09, 2007 12:20 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL

  Based on the expiration of Florida's No Fault/PIP law, State Farm has announced it will reduce it's rates and that the average two car household will save approximately $360. Interesting... I'm sure the average cost of PIP protection is more than $360 per two car household. I sure hope the legislature asks where that extra premium money is going...

• La Ley de Lesion Personal Expirará Octubre 1

  Evan Rosen | May 08, 2007 3:37 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL

  La sesión legislativa ha terminado y con ella el tiempo para extender la famosa ley de la Florida "No-Fault/PIP" (como se conoce en Inglés). Esta ley requiere que los conductores de la Florida tengan seguro de auto para pagar un porcentaje de sus propios gastos médicos y perdida de salario despues de un accidente de carro, sin tomar en cuenta quien causo el accidente. Esta ley es resultado...

• College Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit for $2.75 Million

  Christina Cole | May 07, 2007 11:20 PM | 1 CommentTampa Bay, FL

  Edward Waters College and the family of a student that was fatally shot, in 2004, following an essay he wrote critical of campus safety, has reached a $2.75 million wrongful death settlement.Additionally, the settlement, agreed upon last month, requires the college to award an annual scholarship in honor of Johnathan Wesley Glenn,Glenn, 18, a college freshman, was standing outside of his dorm...

• Major Personal Injury Law to Expire on October 1

  Evan Rosen | May 07, 2007 7:58 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL

  The 2007 Legislative Session has ended and with it so has the time period to extend Florida's famous no-fault/PIP law. No-Fault or PIP law requires Florida drivers to carry auto insurance to pay for a percentage of their own medical bills and lost wages resulting from an auto accident regardless of who is at fault. There is no Florida law requiring people who are responsible for accidents to...