- Eddie Farah | October 29, 2007 10:46 AM |
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MiscellaneousBe sure your little ones and teens have a safe Halloween. It is not the time you want to end up in the emergency room and unfortunately all of the excitement of the night often ends up there.Here are some tips for parents and kids:*Tripping and falling in the dark of Halloween night is a danger. Make sure costumes don't obscure eyes and kids have flashlights that securely fit in their smaller...
- Eddie Farah | October 27, 2007 6:48 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeIf an apology would be forthcoming when a hospital does wrong- I'd have less business. And that would be okay because it's the right thing for a hospital to do. When UF Shands gave medication to a 3-year-old that was ten times stronger that what was originally prescribed, the boy died. This happened October 10, 2007.Instead of running for cover, getting their ducks in a row, hiring lawyers and...
- Eddie Farah | October 26, 2007 8:03 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsIt seems as though we are reporting this much too often.This time an 11-year old Callahan girl, Kelly Martinez, was crossing two-lane Lem Turned Road south of Church Road. It was about 7 a.m. and the girl was going to her school bus stop when she was hit by a Jeep Cherokee. Linda Brabham, 50, also of Callahan didn't see the girl and police do not believe she was driving improperly.Martinez...
- Eddie Farah | October 23, 2007 10:31 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsThere was a lot of confusion getting into downtown Monday, Oct 22, so the Department of Transportation plans on installing more signs to help motorists get there.Part of the problem is a new temporary ramp for motorists exiting onto Forsyth, Monroe, Union and King streets. If you are driving east on I-10, you are advised to go north on I-95 and exit the ramp immediately after the merge point...
- Eddie Farah | October 23, 2007 3:41 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsThis investigation by the Kansas City Star reveals that more often than should happen, front airbags do not inflate in head-on crashes. Unfortunately you do not know until you need them. The newspaper looked into the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) database and found that at least 1,400 motorists died from 2001 through 2006 in collisions where the airbags did not deploy. ...
- Eddie Farah | October 20, 2007 12:17 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsIt is unusual for a hit-and-run fatality to ever be solved. That's why we are encouraged to report that there has been an arrest in the death of Clint Malone, killed early last Saturday morning in Panama Ciity Beach by a hit-and-run driver.20-year-old Jeremy Matthew Hunt has been charged with leaving the scene of a crash that killed someone. Hunt was driving a pick up truck and had left Salty's...
- Eddie Farah | October 19, 2007 12:41 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsDoctors are being warned that a drug to treat Type-2 diabetes may be causing acute pancreatitis.So far, 30 cases have been reviewed. In six cases, patient's symptoms got worse when they doubled their dose of the drug, Byetta. Doctors received a letter from the FDA asking them to tell patients on exenatide (Byetta) to seek treatment immediately if that have any unexplained abdominal pains and...
- Eddie Farah | October 17, 2007 11:48 AM |
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MiscellaneousAllstate Insurance Company has been asked by the governor to turn over internal documents to determine if it and other property insurors are conspiring to keep prices high.Allstate and its subsidiary, Allstate Floridian Insurance, have been served subpoenas. Just three weeks ago, Allstate Floridian, the fourth-largest insurance company in Florida, proposed raising homeowners rates by 41.9...
- Eddie Farah | October 15, 2007 1:28 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA colleague of mine has asked us to put out the word on a hit-and-run that took the life of a family friend. The driver has not been apprehended.This happened early Saturday morning in Panama City Beach. 33-year-old Clint S. Malone was an attorney from Vero Beach visiting friends and family in the area. Early Saturday morning, Malone was out for an early morning bicycle ride on Thomas Drive. ...
- Eddie Farah | October 13, 2007 9:52 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsFor 17 years, Michael Gallagher has worked at the U.S. attorney's office helping prosecute those who violate the law. On Friday, the 50-year-old admitted his driving caused the death of a 23-year-old woman by driving too fast. He was sentenced to seven years in prison and five years probation.In August, he pled guilty to vehicular manslaughter on the eve of his trial. The accident happened in...
- Eddie Farah | October 11, 2007 3:32 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeThey say that it is the same doctors who make the bulk of medical mistakes.This story is about one Waycross, Georgia surgeon who seems to fit that profile. Five more patients of Dr. Najam Azmat have filed lawsuits against him and Satilla Regional Medical Center. They say they were injured by the doctor's incompetence. Among the charges - the doctor allegedly tore one patient's arteries while...
- Eddie Farah | October 10, 2007 8:44 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsGeorgia is just one of 30 states reporting incidents of salmonella linked to pot pies made by ConAgra Foods Inc.That's the same company that made the peanut butter that was recalled in its Georgia plant.This time the company's Missouri plant produced the Banquet pot pies. Production has stopped there as, so far, 139 cases have been confirmed. 23 people are hospitalized.Most of the cases reported...
- Eddie Farah | October 09, 2007 11:26 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsPolice never did have time to identify what John Sol was doing.They were too busy trying to catch him.The very energetic man was at a Hampton Inn on CR 208 in St. Augustine where he was making some sort of disturbance.When police got there he was gone but soon St. John's County Sheriff's deputies were in pursuit of the 44-year--old on SR 16. Sol was stopped by a deputy but then sped off. Police...
- Jenny Albano | October 09, 2007 5:08 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsWinn-Dixie Inc., in conjunction with the FDA, is recalling Prestige Chocolate Ice Cream because of a potential mislabeling in packaging. Some of the products may have the correct lid identifying the product as chocolate almond, but the "tub" is identified as only chocolate. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to almonds run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction...
- Eddie Farah | October 05, 2007 6:46 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsCall it the 11th hour.Apparently the states' no-fault system of insurance known as PIP (Personal Injury Protection) will be back January 1st, 2008, if Governor Crist signs a bill passed Friday by the Florida Legislature.Meeting in special session, the Senate joined the House in reviving PIP which had sunset October 1st. PIP had been virorously opposed by insurance industry lobbyists who said...
- Eddie Farah | October 05, 2007 6:12 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsIt all happened in the middle of the day. It could happen to anyone.South and northbound lanes of I-95 at Baymeadows had to be closed for almost two hours Thursday, after a car with a blown tire went off the road, hit a guardrail then rolled over.Around 2 p.m., Alicia Groatman, 32 of New Jersey, was heading south on I-95. Her tire blew and she veered into the path of a car driven by 26, year old...
- Eddie Farah | October 03, 2007 6:37 PM |
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MiscellaneousYou pay your insurance bill and you expect to be covered when you need it.You experience a hurricane and hopefully you avoid wind and water damage to your home. But you don't. So you call your insurance company right away to check on your coverage.That's what Eugene and Debra Cox did after their Blackwater Bay home was destroyed three years ago by water that surged into their home after...
- Eddie Farah | October 01, 2007 11:11 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThe good news happened at the U.S. Supreme Court as it reconvened Monday.The highest court of the land rejected with no comment or discussion, an appeal by the tobacco industry. Big Tobacco wanted to overturn a decision last year that would allow "deception" and "negligence" to be argued against Big Tobacco in the states upcoming individual lawsuits. Those cases are being filed by Farah and...