- Eddie Farah | October 30, 2008 11:15 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsType-2 diabetes drug Avandia once showed great promise in reducing blood glucose levels in patients. GlaxoSmithKline thought they had a winner on their hands. But then the reports of heart and liver...
- Eddie Farah | October 27, 2008 11:22 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsComing up next week before the U.S. Supreme Court is an issue that affects all Americans who take any kind of prescription drug from time to time – that would be virtually all of us.
The case...
- Eddie Farah | October 25, 2008 2:49 PM |
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Wrongful DeathThe tragic death of a five-year-old boy who suffered an asthma attack at the beginning of school last year has resulted in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Trenton Stokes died in August 2007. It was his...
- Eddie Farah | October 25, 2008 1:59 PM |
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Workplace InjuriesThe Florida Supreme Court on Thursday stepped in to help injured workers.
Ever since a controversial 2003 reform of the state’s workers’ compensation law, lawyer’s fees have been...
- Eddie Farah | October 24, 2008 9:29 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsAn 8-month-old child has died , after becoming entrapped and suffocating in a Delta Enterprise Co. drop side crib. The company is voluntarily recalling almost 1.6 million cribs made in China,...
- Eddie Farah | October 23, 2008 2:32 PM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsThe Insurance Institute for Highway Safety finds that antilock brakes on motorcycles could save lives.
Antilock brakes are installed in cars and trucks. Typically they are found on touring bikes...
- Internal Administrator | October 18, 2008 2:35 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsOften times a hit-and-run driver is never apprehended. They get away knowing they can get away with it. That was not the case with the driver who hit Darryl Green.
Darryl Green was in the wrong...
- Eddie Farah | October 18, 2008 2:34 AM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)NHTSA, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, issued new rules this week that will improve the nation’s 474,000 school buses. Seat and shoulder belts will be required on small...
- Eddie Farah | October 17, 2008 10:10 PM |
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Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)The mother of a 13-year-old Jacksonville girl, killed by a stray bullet fired within her apartment complex, has settled her lawsuit against the property owner.
Tina Williams filed the lawsuit...
- Eddie Farah | October 14, 2008 12:20 AM |
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MiscellaneousA wave of class action lawsuits has begun by angry shareholders who invested in two mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
They allege that stock underwriters hid the true numbers on the...
- Eddie Farah | October 11, 2008 8:58 PM |
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Tractor-Trailer Accidents
A driver from Kingsland, Georgia died Friday afternoon after a chain-reaction on the road involving a tractor-trailer.
The tractor-trailer was hauling a load of beer, heading south near Pecan...
- Eddie Farah | October 10, 2008 12:30 AM |
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Automobile Accidents
Aggressive driving is responsible for 2/3rds of all fatalities on the road each year, or 27,000 deaths. That number is four times the number of deaths resulting from DUI or drunk under the...
- Eddie Farah | October 09, 2008 12:03 AM |
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MiscellaneousJames and Blanch Whiddon had been married for 65 years. They told relatives recently they could never live without each other. After a car accident, they died three days apart last week.
James, 85,...
- Eddie Farah | October 08, 2008 11:47 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsWith more than 36,000 teen drivers involved in car crashes in Florida last year – and a teen killed every 6.5 minutes nationwide, the state’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor...
- Eddie Farah | October 03, 2008 11:20 PM |
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Motorcycle AccidentsThis week, a couple of teenage boys riding an all-terrain vehicle in Baker County, smashed into a tree after losing control of the ATV on a dirt road. Neither wore a helmet, and were both reported...
- Eddie Farah | October 03, 2008 9:33 PM |
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Automobile AccidentsA 32-yer-old Jacksonville woman will be spending close to nine years in prison for driving drunk and killing her son in the crash that followed.
Last April, Angela Harper was was drunk driving at...
- Eddie Farah | October 03, 2008 12:13 AM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsFlorida is joining eight other states in seeking its share of money it spent reimbursing patients who took the dangerous painkiller, Vioxx. All of the states are also suing Merck & Co alleging...