According to a study posted at the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, an important factor in some hospital medication errors involves using inaccurate weights. The study was based on approximately 480 event reports submitted to the Authority that involved medication mistakes...
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According to an article posted on TBO.com, the Florida Highway Patrol recently held a news conference on car accidents and seat belt safety. The conference comes on the heels of a new law in Florida that allows law enforcement to...
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82 year old Gordon Murphy from Saftey Harbor died on May 19, 2009 when his 1986 Oldsmobile crashed into a power pole on State Road 580 near Countryside Boulevard in Clearwater Florida. No other vehicles were involved in the car...
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In a previous post about a pharmacist from England that was charged criminally for dispensing the wrong medication, I boldly stated: "In the United States it is highly unlikely that this type of pharmacy mistake would lead to such an...
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21 Polo horses died in Wellington Florida on April 19, 2009 just before a Polo tournament that was to be held at the International Polo Club Palm Beach. All of the horses were owned by Venezuelan Banker Victor Vargas and...
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According to pjonline.com Pharmacist Elizabeth Lee of Windsor, Berkshire was charged criminally for mistakenly dispensing propranolol instead of prednisolone to a 72 year old woman that later died in the hospital. Ms. Lee had apparently been working a 10 hour...
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Tort reformers often claim that personal injury lawsuits are a drain on the economy. In order to support their inaccurate claims, they point to what they perceive are the negative effects on the economy. However, they purposely leave out all...
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The Yamaha Rhino is a two passenger vehicle that looks a lot like a golf cart on steroids. It is generally described as a Recreational Utility Vehicle (RUV). However, it has also been described as a Utility Terrain Vehicle (UTV)...
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The Pinellas County Sheriff's office has reported that 15 year old Erica Hansen of Oldsmar Florida was struck by a truck while trying to cross Tampa Road near the intersection with East Lake Woodlands Parkway in Oldsmar around 9:30 p.m....
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One of the leading causes of pharmacy malpractice in Tampa and across the Nation involves pharmacists misinterpreting physician handwriting. This type of medication mistake leads to filling prescriptions with the wrong medicine and or the wrong dose of medicine. Typed...
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A recent post at Tampabay.com used statistics from the National Highway Safety Administration to drive home the point that riding a motorcycle on the public roads in Florida is dangerous. According to the post, the number of motorcycle rider deaths...
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Approximately 1500 car accidents occur in Bradenton, Manatee County Florida each year. Currently, the local government pays about $150,000.00 per year to direct traffic, investigate, and come to conclusions regarding the cause of these accidents. According to a story posted...
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The Florida legislature is scrambling to make up for the state's budget deficit. It appears that one of the ways the state plans to do so is to raise the cost of most traffic citations. According to www.tbo.com, Governor Charlie...
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In September of 2009, four year old Summer Moll was severly injured when the car she was driving in was hit by a car driven by 25-year-old Cheryl-Maria Riemann. Moll's mother, Jennifer O'Boyle was killed in the car crash. Police...
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A previous post discussed the fact that motorcycle fatalities in Florida have gone up each year since 1998 as a percentage of all auto accident deaths. Fortunately, it appears that the number of all tracffic related deaths in Florida has...
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Florida law used to require motorcycle riders under the age of 21 to take a 15 hour safety course. Recently, however, the law was changed. Now the saftey course must be taken by all new motorcycle riders regardless of age....
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According to tbo.com A 45 year old Spring Hill woman named Patricia Kluge was arrested for DUI around 3:30 pm on January 13, 2009. She was driving a Dodge Caravan mini van north on Mariner Boulevard in Spring Hill Hernando...
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Bay News 9 recently published a study performed by Allstate of teen driving during the holidays. According to the study, Tampa is the deadliest city for teen drivers. Even more frightening is the fact that the top three deadliest areas...
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In September of 2008, a Florida jury returned a verdict in a wrongful death lawsuit in favor of a family and against a company that improperly loaded a truck. Because the truck was improperly loaded, a 34 pound metal plate...
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On September of 2008 The Department of Health and Human Services released "Trends in Nursing Home Deficiencies and Complaints". The memorandum report described trends in deficiencies and complaints from 2005 through 2007. To those of us who routinely represent victims...
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Drivers in car accidents in Tampa Florida now have even more reason to independently document what happened in their accidents. The reason is that Tampa Police officers have a new ticket policy. According to an article posted on Tampabays10, under...
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An assisted living facility (ALF) is a place where senior citizens can live that need some help with activities of daily living but do not need skilled nursing care. Often those living in ALF's have some form of dementia and...
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According to Bay News 9, on October 20, 2008, a car crash in Tampa has left one person is dead and five others seriously injured. Police reported that Justin Jones, the driver responsible, was under the influence of alcohol at...
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According to Bay News 9, In St. Petersburg, a pedestrian was killed and another was seriously injured on October 9, 2008 due to a hit and run accident. The St. Petersburg Police Department reported that officers tried to pull over...
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According to Bay news 9, a car crash on the evening of Saturday October 11, 2008 in Polk County killed two people, leaving three others with serious injuries. According to the Florida State troopers, the 16-year old driver, Patrick Mellan...
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According to Bay News 9, in Moore Haven, Florida six men in a van were killed when a tractor trailer went barreling through a stop sign around 6:30 in the morning and struck the van's right side. Two of the...
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John Daniel Shuman was hurt when he crashed his motorcycle into the back of a car driven by Raymond Lacombe. According to tbo.com, Lacombe stopped his car at a crosswalk in Redington Beach Florida at the intersection of Gulf Boulevard...
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U.S. 92 in Dover, Hillsborough county was shut down on the morning of September 25, 2008 due to a motorcycle accident. According to TBO.com, the crash happened when the motorcycle left the road on U.S. 92 west of Moores Lake...
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The local news is reporting that a 13-year-old girl was critically injured after a car crash outside the Westfield Commons Shopping Center in Dunedin, Florida. She was a passenger in her mother's car at the time of the accident. A...
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The Florida Insurance Commission has been investigating rate increases in Florida for over a year. As part of the investigation, the Commission subpeoned documents from Allstate in October of 2007. As described in a previous post, Allstate's refusal to honor...
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State Farm recently requested a rate increase for its homeowner policies of nearly 50%. The request from State Farm came at the heels of a recent court showdown between another homeowner insurance company, Allstate, and the state of Florida over...
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According to an article written by Diane Chun and published by the Gainesville Sun, 3 year old Sebastian Ferreros died in October of 2007 of a drug overdose. On Wednesday, August 13, 2008, Edna Irizarry, the pharmacist that filled the...
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Most people that consider themselves conservatives believe that personal injury lawsuits are a drain on society because they drive up the cost of health insurance. In fact, this common misperception is often repeated by politicians looking for campaign contributions and...
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Mandatory arbitration in personal injury cases usually favors corporate wrongdoers. Of course that is why corporations push so hard to include arbitration provisions in contracts when consumers purchase their products and services. For a detailed discussion on why and how...
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Arbitration is a contract in which the parties to it agree to have their disputes decided by an arbitrator instead of a judge or jury. It is promoted by its supporters as a fair, quick, and inexpensive way to have...
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