A pharmacy prescription misfill occurs when the pharmacist fills a prescription with the wrong medicine. Sometimes the misfill can cause personal injury or death. When this occurs, the victim and or the victim's family should consult a personal injury attorney...
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A wrongful death lawsuit allows a family to hold a wrongdoer financially accountable for causing a loved ones death. Florida wrongful death lawsuits are controlled by The 2009->Ch0768->Section%2016#0768.16">Florida Wrongful Death Act. Under the Florida statute, when a person dies as...
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$27 billion of the federal economic stimulus package has been set aside for Highway construction. Large states like Florida will get their fare share. There is no doubt the money will fund a much needed increase in new roads as...
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The Institute of Medicine estimates that as many as 1.5 million preventable medication errors occur each year. As a medication error lawyer, I have seen first hand how these mistakes cause injury. Apparently, the new FDA Commissioner, Margaret Hamburg M.D....
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The overwhelming majority of personal injury plaintiff's could not possibly afford to pay their attorneys if they had to pay up front, win or lose. The contingency fee contract illuminates much of the financial risk to the client by shifting...
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Florida has become a haven for corrupt nursing home operators that use the corporate form to hide their assets from Florida nursing home abuse lawyers attempting to hold them accountable for injury, neglect, abuse and death that occurs in their...
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Insurance companies often ask people involved in Florida personal injury accidents to give a recorded statement. There are times when it makes sense to do so. There are also times when a recorded statement should not be given. Click on...
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The leading cause of death for children in the United States is automobile accidents. As a result, all states, including Florida have very detailed child car seat restraint laws. Although the overwelming majority of parents follow the laws and use...
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Walgreens recently announced its third quarter results. According to an Associated Press Article published in the New York Times, Walgreens pharmacy sales were up 4.5 percent for the quarter over last year. There was no mention in the article about...
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In June of 2009, President Obama nominated Anne Ferro to head the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Her record on automobile safety issues is mixed. While head of Maryland's motor vehicle agency from 1997 to 2003 she was involved in...
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Most people do not think to check the medicine they have received from a pharmacy. They rely on the fact that pharmacist's are professionals. It never crosses their mind that the pharmacist may have made a mistake. Unfortunately, their is...
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One of the most common questions a personal injury attorney hears is "How long will it take to resolve my personal inury case?" I answer this question in a video on my law firm website. To view the video, click...
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Truck drivers are the backbone of the economic distribution system in the United States. Most of them are hard working Americans that are making an honest living. However, the pressure to deliver the load on time can sometimes lead to...
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When a car is damaged in an auto accident as a result of someone else's negligence, there are usually two ways to handle getting compensation for the damages. You can make a claim with your own auto insurance. When you...
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When an insurance company or defendant in a personal injury case has questions about the cause or extent of a personal injury client's injuries, they have the right under the law to send the person to the doctor of their...
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The number of pharmacy mistakes continues to rise with the ever increasing number of prescriptions filled in the United States each year. Sometimes pharmacy malpractice occurs because the pharmacy has too few qualified employees for the number of prescriptions it...
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When a jury awards a substantial verdict to someone injured as the result of someone else's negligence, tort reformers refer to the outcome as jackpot justice. The reference is a purposefully demeaning comparison between the juries attempt to make up...
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Tort Reformers claim that our country's economy is crumbling because of out of control personal injury settlements and jury verdicts that include a recovery for pain and suffering damages. If you listen to many politicians discussing the subject, you will...
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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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