Posts tagged automobile accidents

• Beware: Scary Hospital Tactics in Patient Billing

  Ed Normand | August 10, 2011 4:22 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A 53 year old woman is involved in a motor vehicle accident. No fault of her own. She is taken via ambulance to Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala, Florida. While there she fills out her...

• The Reason For The Rise In Florida Auto Accident Insurance Fraud

  Ed Normand | January 27, 2012 11:36 AM | 3 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Fraud related to Florida auto accidents is a huge problem. The cause of the problem is well known: Florida's Personal Injury Protection Insurance (PIP) laws give an automatic $10,000.00 in...

• Insurance Companies Denying Payment For Jaws Of Life

  Ed Normand | January 31, 2009 10:05 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Jaws of life are used by fire and rescue personnel as part of their lifesaving work in extricating victims from accident wreckage. The goal is to prevent and minimize injury to victims as part of...

• Joyride Leads to Day Care Closure

  Eddie Farah | May 19, 2008 11:50 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It might have been a fun ride to Chuck E. Cheese for little 1-4 year-old toddlers, but the ride has ended in a Jacksonville day care center, Kids Creations and More receiving a notice of intent to...

• Dangers of Distracted Driving

  Ed Normand | September 30, 2009 10:24 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  With the advent of safer cars, airbags and mandatory seatbelts one would think that we are progressing toward safer roadways. Technology, however, is bringing about a new and very real danger:...

• Are Elderly Drivers Dangerous?

  Ed Normand | September 27, 2008 11:08 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Many assume that older drivers are unsafe behind the wheel, cause more auto accidents and should be tested more frequently. Actually the truth is just the opposite. According to a study by the Rand...

• Toyota pedal fix welcome, but why so late

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | February 04, 2010 10:01 AM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  News on Monday that Toyota has found a fix for sticky gas pedals that have caused cars to speed up unexpectedly is welcome. It is the second recall that Toyota is issuing – the first was to...

• More Dangers of Distracted Driving

  Ed Normand | November 03, 2009 12:38 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A client of mine was forever maimed in a recent car crash, but she wasn’t even driving. Jane was walking in her neighborhood, in broad daylight, when a car veered off the road, and mowed her...

• Seat Belts in Golf Carts?

  Charlie Vanture | October 16, 2008 6:02 PM | 0 CommentsTallahassee, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  I stumbled across an article today about a retirement community in Sun City AZ offereing free seat belts for golf carts. The Retirement Community Association of Sun City will distribute 200 golf car...

• Lobbying for a Lower Drinking Age

  Ed Normand | September 26, 2008 11:08 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The lowest legal age to drink alcohol in all 50 states is 21. This was not always the law. In fact in the early 80's most 18 year olds could drink in most states. Laws were passed to lower the...