Posts tagged Personal Injury

• Helpful Hints In Selecting a Child Car Seat

  Ed Normand | November 13, 2009 5:03 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Baby Car Seats - Did you know... Often parents move their child from a baby car seat to a full-size safety seat too soon. Data from crash-testing reveals that a baby is better protected in a...

• Medical Device Product Immunity Gets Another Look

  Ed Normand | August 23, 2009 12:20 PM | 1 CommentOrlando, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court in Riegel v. Medtronic ruled that a manufacturer could not be held liable if its medical device was defective, even when the device is recalled, as long as the device...

• Order is Filed on Emergency Hearing in Disney Monorail Crash

  Ed Normand | August 22, 2009 12:16 PM | 2 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  An emergency court hearing was held on July 14, 2009 in the crash that killed Disney monorail operator Austin Wuennenberg. Although no lawsuit has been filed by the Wuennenberg family, court...

• Another Worker Dies At Disney

  Ed Normand | August 21, 2009 12:32 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  With the third employee death at Disney World in the past seven weeks, serious questions are being raised about the safety regulations in place at the Theme Parks in Florida. Attorney Ed Normand of...

• Unreported Theme Park Injuries

  Ed Normand | August 21, 2009 12:04 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  We have been blogging a lot about the lack of reporting at the Federal, State and Local level of the injuries that happen at the big theme parks. It turns out that the local fair or a Greyhound bus...

• A New Way To Objectively Measure Pain

  Ed Normand | August 12, 2009 4:32 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A difficult issue in the presentation of a personal injury claim is whether the victim is truly in pain and if so how much? This is especially true in cases with non surgical injuries or...

• Construction Worker Painting Lines Hit, Killed By SUV

  Eddie Farah | August 12, 2009 2:59 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  People who work on our roads often wear brightly colored neon vests and helmets. That is what 37-year-old Cary Fraser was wearing, but it didn't help him to be more visible to a driver of an SUV...

• Rollover Kills Teen In Back Of Pickup

  Eddie Farah | July 28, 2009 2:16 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A 16-year-old high school girl was killed early Monday morning when a pickup truck in which she was riding along with six others over corrected, then struck a curb and overturned. Miranda Zant, a...

• A layman's explanation of comparative fault and or contributory negligence and how it affects your recovery.

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | July 27, 2009 11:00 AM | 1 CommentMiami, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Many of us will at some point in our lives be involved in a personal injury lawsuit. It may be because we’ve been involved in some way in a car accident. Or, we could be on a jury listening to...

• Florida Fire Marshall Suspects Chinese Drywall Could Be Flammable

  Eddie Farah | July 26, 2009 10:17 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  As if the problems with the foul smell coming from Chinese drywall in some Florida homes is not problem enough - now we learn that the state Fire Marshal’s Office and the Consumer Product...