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• Loser Pays -- Tort Reform Hypocrisy

  Patrick Quinlan | November 13, 2009 3:06 PM | 5 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  I just read another anti-lawyer diatribe by John Stossel. Mr. Stossel is one of the great many Tort Reform Hypocrites: people who scream in public about evil trial lawyers filing frivolous lawsuits...

• Chinese Drywall Class Action Lawsuit Deadline Looming Against Defendant Knauf

  Joe Saunders | November 12, 2009 1:47 PM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  The class action lawsuit against one of the largest Chinese drywall defendants, Knauf Tianjin, has a very tight deadline for those to join the omnibus class action lawsuit, December 2, 2009. Knauf,...

• The Substance of Water

  Jack Scarola | November 10, 2009 11:42 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  There have been a lot of heated debates surrounding the creation of a state water commission that could route water from North Florida to the overpopulated and overdeveloped South Florida region....

• FDA’s Oversight of Post-Marketing Studies Inadequate

  C. Todd Alley | November 10, 2009 11:05 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a new report about the FDA’s lack of post-marketing oversight in a number of the drugs which it conditionally approved. The FDA...

• Florida teen dies because he was not wearing seatbelt

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | November 09, 2009 10:46 PM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  Matthew Kornya's Nov. 7 car accident didn’t have to be tragic. He was not supposed to be driving a car because, as a minor, he only held a learner’s permit. He may have also been...

• Orlando/Kissimmee Tops List of Deadliest Metro Areas for Pedestrians

  Sandy Grinnell | November 09, 2009 5:04 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  According to the Transportation for America (TFA) latest report, Central Florida has the worst ranking in the number of pedestrian deaths for 2007 and 2008 among metro areas that have a million plus...

• Hurricane Ida - does central Florida need to worry?

  Bob Grode | November 09, 2009 9:52 AM | 0 CommentsCentral Florida, FL

  Is it still hurricane season? We have been blessed with a very mild hurricane season but Ida is making her way across the Gulf of Mexico headed towards the panhandle. What does this mean for central...

• Orlando, Florida Theme Park Injury Reports

  Ed Normand | November 07, 2009 4:55 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  For the second consecutive quarter, Disney World was the only major theme park in Florida to report any guest injuries. None of the other major theme parks - including Universal Studios, Sea...

• FDA Addresses Medical Errors And $4 Billion Pricetag

  Eddie Farah | November 06, 2009 1:29 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  As we look at saving money on health care spending, Americans should consider drugs, specifically the huge cost of medical errors involving prescriptions. Medication interactions, a mix-up in the...

• Disney Replaces Crashed Monorail

  Ed Normand | November 06, 2009 12:40 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Recently, Disney announced that a “new” monorail train, named Teal, is now up and running at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. The monorail at Disney received heightened media...