InjuryBoard Jacksonville Archives

• Toddler Run Over In Driveway - A Too Common Occurance

  Eddie Farah | November 29, 2008 12:43 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  We’ve heard these stories before, too many times. This time a 2-year-old riding his tricycle in a driveway was run over in a driveway. The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office says the little...

• 72 Car Safety Awards Highlight U.S. Automakers

  Eddie Farah | November 28, 2008 11:17 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  If you happen to be car shopping, you’ll want to visit the Top Safety Picks from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The list for 2009 has more domestic cars that ever before....

• Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch Costing Consumers And J&J

  Eddie Farah | November 26, 2008 9:59 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  It’s hard to believe it is still on the market. Johnson & Johnson has paid about $69 million to settle hundreds of lawsuits by women who used the Ortho Evra birth-control patch. Unlike...

• $16.6 Million Duragesic Pain Patch Trial Ends

  Eddie Farah | November 24, 2008 10:59 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Devices & Implants

  The trial of a woman who died from an overdose of the drug delivered through the Duragesic pain-killing patch is over. The jury awarded her husband and three children $16.6 million. The Chicago...

• Bullies On The Internet

  Eddie Farah | November 23, 2008 8:11 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  The father of a son who committed suicide on the Internet this week is “appalled” by the audience that watched his son die and is calling for regulations to oversee the...

• More Warnings for Derma Fillers

  Eddie Farah | November 20, 2008 9:24 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Devices & Implants

  An FDA advisory panel believes the cosmetic industry is not coming clean about the potential adverse side effects from dermal fillers, injected to soften facial wrinkles. Popular brands are...

• Raising the Tax On Cigarettes - It's About Time

  Eddie Farah | November 19, 2008 11:54 PM | 2 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  It makes sense. Cigarettes cost the state of Florida about $6 billion a year in exorbitant health care costs associated with smoking - heart disease, cancers and hospitalizations, according to the...

• Tricks of the Trade

  Eddie Farah | November 17, 2008 8:46 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  At Farah and Farah, we’ve seen just about every excuse to avoid paying an insurance claim. Every day the big insurance companies do a cost analysis and find creative ways NOT to pay, while...

• The Hiring Of Home Health Aides

  Eddie Farah | November 15, 2008 10:39 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  Frequently we at Farah and Farah are asked whether hiring a home health aide to watch over an elderly loved one, in our home or theirs, is a good idea and what should someone look for. You should...

• Florida Vision Test Works To Reduce Elderly Deaths On The Road

  Eddie Farah | November 14, 2008 12:06 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  It was almost five years ago now that Florida changed its law to require elderly drivers, age 80 and above, to have their vision tested before they renew their drivers license. It turns out that...

• Woman Buckles Up Infant As Her Last Act

  Eddie Farah | November 13, 2008 10:20 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A very sad story was in our paper this week. A woman, 39-year-old Kimberly Frazier, was driving south on U.S. 1 in Flagler County in northeast Florida. She drove her Chevy Blazer too close to a...

• Support National Salvage Vehicles Database

  Eddie Farah | November 11, 2008 4:50 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Every try to buy a used car? About as much fun as going to the dentist. Not to disparage dentists, or the used car industry, but it can be very tricky. The used car stuff that...

• Vytorin Lawsuits Over Low Cholesterol Claims

  Eddie Farah | November 08, 2008 12:18 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  You know the Vytorin commercials – comparing eating fettucini alfredo with your Uncle Alfredo – both are sources of high cholesterol, the ads said. Food and family are both to...

• 30 Off-Road Fatalities Subject Of Govt Probe

  Eddie Farah | November 07, 2008 5:04 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Motorcycle Accidents

  We blog all too frequently about children who are hurt or killed in off-highway vehicles and ATVs. Now the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is looking into the design of a handful of...

• Drinking Age Should Stay 21

  Eddie Farah | November 06, 2008 5:14 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is releasing new data that shows that keeping the drinking age laws at 21 prevented an estimated 4,441 drunk driving deaths over the last five...

• Cruise Line Customers To Receive A Refund

  Eddie Farah | November 06, 2008 4:54 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

  Passengers traveling on one cruise line have a refund coming thanks to Florida’s Attorney General. Bill McCollum filed a lawsuit this week against Imperial Majesty Cruise Line. The...

• Exploding Boat Injures Florida-Georgia Fans

  Eddie Farah | November 01, 2008 10:56 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

  The Florida-Georgia game weekend started on a bad note for four fans aboard a boat that exploded in the Intracoastal Waterway of Jacksonville. Two people were reportedly thrown from the boat when...

• Let The Games Begin - 709 Ballots Rejected So Far

  Eddie Farah | November 01, 2008 9:18 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Remember the hanging chads from the 2000 election and the dysfunctional voting machines that registered the exact opposite candidate than a person voted for in 2004? Florida is a battleground state...