Posts tagged wrongful death

• Woman Killed by Van

  Craig Cannon | April 27, 2007 7:48 AM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A New Smyrna Beach woman was killed Wednesday afternoon after getting off a Votran bus on South Dixie Freeway. Shelby Kane, 21, was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses said Kane had just gotten off a southbound Votran bus and was crossing the four-lane street when she was hit by a van. Kane was apparently headed to the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library, when the crash occurred. A...

• Motorcyclist's Death Blamed on Drunk Driver

  Craig Cannon | April 18, 2007 10:13 AM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  On October 19, 2006, the night before the official start of Biketoberfest, Clifford L.R. Atkinson, 68, was killed when his motorcycle collided head-on with a car on State Road 100 in Flagler County west of Bunnell. After completing its investigation, the Florida Highway Patrol is blaming the driver of the oncoming car, Bunnell resident Michelle K. Bohn, 36. Bohn was driving west when she crossed...

• Pool Safety

  Craig Cannon | April 10, 2007 11:35 AM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A young boy drowned in his neighbor's pool because the neighbor did not have a child proof barrier around their pool. The child wandered into the neighbor's yard and fell into the pool. The boy was discovered some time later by his mother who began to perform resuscitation on him until rescue personal could arrive on the scene. Although the rescue personnel tried to save him he was pronounced...

• Taser Reports Dismissal for Wrongful Death Lawsuit

  Christina Cole | April 08, 2007 8:02 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  After a dismissal in a Florida lawsuit on Monday, Taser International Inc. has a 41-0 record in wrongful death lawsuits and injury lawsuits filed against them, say company officials.The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida entered an order to dismiss with prejudice an in-custody death product liability lawsuit that was filed against Taser, a Scottsdale-based maker of stun...

• Crash Kills Wife

  Craig Cannon | April 03, 2007 5:07 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Margaret Ann McGuire a resdient of Palm Coast and the wife of former police union executive and one-time Flagler County Commissioner Pat McGuire -- died Friday in a traffic accident on U.S. 1 in Palm Coast. Mrs. McGuire was killed when her car hit the back of a trailer being pulled by a dump truck. At the time of the crash the dump truck was trying to make a U-turn on U.S. 1 just past Seminole...

• Wrongful Death in Motorcycle Accident

  Craig Cannon | March 23, 2007 3:09 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A man died in a car accident Monday afternoon. He was a 75-year-old trucking company owner who split time between Central Florida and Richmond, Va. He owned Butler Transport for 25 years in Richmond. His Florida home was in Leesburg. It's possible he was heading to or from her home when the crash happened.The victim was eastbound on County Road 486 in Citrus Hills at about 4:15 p.m. Monday...

• 13 Car Accident Causes Deaths

  Craig Cannon | March 14, 2007 8:07 AM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Heavy fog and smoke on The Florida Turnpike near Orlando caused a 13-vehicle wreck. The crash resulted in 5 wrongful deaths. Four other people were injured. All five deaths occurred during the second crash, Florida Highway Patrol said in a statement. No one was injured in the first or third crashes. Two people from Boynton Beach and one person from Gainesville were killed in the accident. A...

• Motorcycle Crash Results in Wrongful Death

  Craig Cannon | February 24, 2007 6:29 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A resident of The Villages riding his motorcycle was killed when he crashed into a car. The motorcycle and car accident occurred in Ocala. The motorcycle rider was taken to the hospital where he as pronounced dead. The driver of the automobile did not suffer any serious personal injury.The collision left the motorcycle in several pieces and the rider was thrown at least 13 feet from the...

• Nursing Home Abuse Ends in Wrongful Death

  Craig Cannon | February 22, 2007 6:13 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Choosing a good nursing home is difficult. Unfortunately for the family of one elderly person, the nursing home they choose for their mother resulted in her wrongful death. The 81 year who suffered from alzheimer's was abused by aides at the nursing home. Thankfully, cases like this are rare - but resident advocates and nursing home administrators alike say elder abuse, in all its forms, is...

• Court says legal father, not biological dad, should sue on behalf of dead son's estate

  Staff Writer | February 05, 2007 10:17 AM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A recent article in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that the biological father of a boy who was shot and killed by a Delray Beach police officer has no right to sue on behalf of the 16-year-old's estate, the 4th District Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday.In affirming an earlier ruling that Kenneth Miller should be considered Jerrod Miller's legal father, the court also took a swipe at...