Posts tagged child safety

• Why Did A 7-Year-Old Fall Through A Skylight?

  Eddie Farah | January 06, 2010 10:23 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  It was an unbelievable fall at a Jacksonville Beach strip mall. A 7-year-old boy plunged through a skylight on the roof, falling 14-feet to the ground. A witness said she heard the child cry. The...

• Child Waivers- Why Am I Being Asked to Sign Away The Protections That Safeguard My Child?

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | December 29, 2009 3:58 PM | 1 CommentMiami, FL Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  Every parent expects that their children will cry, cost money, demand their time and attention, and change their life forever (in the best of ways). But, they never tell you about all of the...

• NTSB Urges Florida to Pass Child Booster Seat Law

  Sandy Grinnell | September 09, 2009 2:20 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  When I posted the blog last week about National Child Passenger Safety Week, I didn't know that the NTSB was going issue a press release today asking Florida to comply with its child booster seat...

• Foster Kids Put On Drugs At Alarming Rates

  Eddie Farah | May 31, 2009 10:26 PM | 3 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A new report by the state finds that hundreds of kids in foster care have been placed on psychiatric drugs by their caregivers in Northeast Florida. What’s especially shocking is that no one...

• Mom Sentenced In Wreck That Killed Son

  Eddie Farah | May 13, 2009 10:46 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A Jacksonville mother has a long time to think about that day in March of 2008. She was speeding on a rain-slicked road, with her nine-year-old son in the car. Police estimate she may have...

• Jacksonville Link To Killer of Adam Walsh

  Eddie Farah | December 16, 2008 11:47 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  27 years is a long time to look for closure, not that it can ever come when your child is murdered. Today the Hollywood, Florida police chief announced that the 1981 murder of Adam Walsh had been...

• Child Booster Seats Must Comply With Safety Laws (no brainer, so you would think)

  Ed Normand | August 19, 2008 5:25 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Of all the products in the world child safety seats should be governed by the same safety regulations (or more, not less) than the average product sold. Incredibly, however, our own National Highway...