Florida updates in category: Wrongful Death

According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, Florida has the unhappy distinction of again leading the nation in boating deaths. Over last year accidental boating deaths in Florida...

A young boy tragically died in a pool April 30th here again in Lee County. This is the third child that has drowned in a pool in Fort Myers and Cape Coral in just the last two(2) weeks. What is...

We’ve had a rash of them lately. Law enforcement is fast to turn to Taser Guns or stun guns. The problem is the jolt delivers around 50,000 volts that penetrates the skin and shocks the heart and...

Two men died when their automobile crashed in Labelle Saturday night. This is more evidence of just how bad our roads have become here. We continue to see an increasingly dangerous level of serious...

An 18 month old boy drowned in a swimming pool in Cape Coral, Fl. and was found by a family member. Yet another tragic death of a child that should have been avoided. These deaths are not uncommon...

Thousands ofFlorida smokers or their surviving family memberswill be eligible to share in a 600 million judgment against tobacco manufacturers ending more than a dozen years of litigation A 145...

According to a recent article in the press, Chiquita Brands International, Inc., is being sued for wrongful death in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The lawsuit accuses the company of contributing to the deaths of five U.S. missionaries through secretly financing rebel groups in Latin America. The lawsuit claims that Chiquita's protection payments to FARC...

Last week Miami-Dade prosecutors charged psychologist Adam Feder with manslaughter in connection with a the death of a woman who overdosed on painkillers. Feder was also charged with one count of trafficking illegal drugs and seven counts of obtaining a controlled substance.Rachel Finzi began seeing Feder after she became depressed over the health of her boyfriend who had been severley injured...

The death of a family member from the unexpected negligance of another driver or property owner has immediate consequences that are difficult, if not impossible for the surviving family to deal with effectively. A wrongful death attorney who concentrates their practice in personal injury should be consulted immediately.There is no cost to the family and they will protect their ability to pursue...

Jessica Lunsford was killed in 2005 by a registered sex offender living about 100 yards from her home. John Couey was convicted of killing her and has been sentanced to death. He claims he held the girl captive for days in his bedroom closet before killing her. Mark Lunsford feels the sheriff's office did not do enough to find his daughter. He is now planning to sue the Citrus County...

Around 10:45 p.m. Thursday night in Deland a hit and run crash killed one teenage girl and critically injured a 43 year old man. At the intersection of Winnemissett and Brooks Avenues, the accident victims were in a vehicle struck by a speeding car that ran a stop sign. The 43year-old man was driving. After slamming into the passenger side of the vehicle, the 2001 Dodge that caused the wreck...

The United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit overturned a $156,000,000 verdict against the terrorist organization, Hamas. The case stemmed from David Boim, a 17-year-old student, being gunned down in 1996 while waiting with other students at a bus stop in Beit El, on the West Bank. The Court said that the judge in the case had failed to require the parents to properly show a link...

On Tuesday, December 19 a man died after riding a roller coaster at the Walt Disney World Resort.Jeffery Reed, 44, was unconscious at the end of the Expedition Everest ride at the Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom.Disney personnel provided medical assistance to Reed, and he was transported to Celebration Hospital where he was pronounced dead, Orange County Sheriff's officials said. Inspectors...

Monday afternoon a sixth grade student was struck by a sport utility vehicle and killed after exiting a school bus. The bus stopped to let the children off on a busy road in Osceola County. The boy crossed the the street. Then, as the bus pulled away the student tried to run back to the other side. This is when he was struck by a Range Rover SUV. The newspaper article in the Orlando...

An Anne Arundel County jury found DRD Pool Service Inc. negligent in the drowning death of the 5-year-old boy at the Crofton Country Club. The pool service was responsible for the safety and security of the swimmers at the pool by supplying the lifeguards. The jury decided the defendent was negligent in providing the proper training for their personnel and did not supply enough lifeguards. ...