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• Auto Fraud Database Will Help Consumers

  Eddie Farah | September 27, 2008 1:36 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  It was 1992 when Congress passed a law calling for the creation of a database of rebuilt or stolen vehicles. But it never happened until now. A U.S. judge has ruled that the Department of Justice...

• Medtronic Is In The News Again

  Eddie Farah | September 27, 2008 1:23 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  This time patients and doctors need to be aware of a substance used to promote bone growth during spine-repair surgery. “Infuse Bone Graft” has led to complications, largely during the “Off-label”...

• Florida Fatal Highway Accidents Down, Alcohol Use Deaths Up

  Eddie Farah | September 26, 2008 1:11 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Fatal accidents on Florida's roads are down four percent, according to the Florida Highway Patrol, but deaths from alcohol-related crashes are on the rise. For the second year in a row, the number...

• Student Killed When Tractor Trailer Driver On Cellphone Collides With School Bus

  Eddie Farah | September 25, 2008 12:58 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Incredible details are coming out about a school bus crash in Citra, Florida that killed one 13-year old girl. The tractor-trailer driver was talking on his cell phone when he slammed into the...

• Texting While Driving Still Allowed In Florida

  Eddie Farah | September 20, 2008 11:25 PM | 2 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Los Angeles area officials have banned the use of all mobile drvices by anyone at the controls of a moving train after it was discovered this week that a Metrolink engineer had been texting around...

• Gasoline In Short Supply And Expensive

  Eddie Farah | September 20, 2008 10:43 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The Florida Attorney General’s Office had received more than 300 complaints by weeks end about gasoline price gouging following Hurricane Ike. The Gate stations in questions say their supplier...

• Teen Motocross Death In North Florida

  Eddie Farah | September 20, 2008 10:30 PM | 6 Comments
  Category: Motorcycle Accidents

  Students at Bartram Trail High School are mourning a senior who was killed this week in a motocross track accident in Flagler County, Florida. Bennet “Ben” Gordon Geiger Jr. was just 17 years old....

• REAL ID Driver's License Coming To Florida

  Eddie Farah | September 19, 2008 10:59 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Beginning in October, Florida drivers will have to obtain a nationally compliant drivers license called Real ID. This is controversial because it moves us one step closer to a national ID card,...

• Vehicular Homicide Charges Filed Against Officer's Girlfriend

  Eddie Farah | September 16, 2008 4:57 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A Jacksonville Sheriff Officer's girlfriend has been charged with his death in an auto accident. 50-year-old Officer Michael Hartsfield died July 30, when the car he was a passenger in crashed off...

• Rollover Study Shows Roof Strength Weakness

  Eddie Farah | September 13, 2008 4:45 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Three independent auto safety groups have found that the federal government's safety standard failed miserably for roof crush standards in real world conditions. Researchers from Public Citizen,...

• Nursing Home Fairness Fought By Industry

  Eddie Farah | September 12, 2008 5:10 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  Binding arbitration. You might not know what means, but look in the fine print of most contracts these days. There is a line or two that agrees to let any dispute be settled by a panel, usually that...

• Can The Injured While Intoxicated File Suit?

  Eddie Farah | September 10, 2008 5:19 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Florida is a comparative negligence state, and that means you can make a personal injury claim based on the percentage of the other side's negligence. If they are half at fault, you get 50 percent....

• Storms Hanna And Ike - When You Cannot Stay Home From Work?

  Eddie Farah | September 05, 2008 11:53 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  We are in the middle of hurricane season in Florida and most of us are keeping an eye on the latest storms, Hanna and Ike. And although it looks like North Florida dodged a bullet again,...

• 8-Year-Old Girl Dies In Florida School Bus Accident

  Eddie Farah | September 05, 2008 11:01 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

  It is truly a parent's worst nightmare. School has been in session in Florida for nearly a week and in Tallahassee a school bus, a minivan, and a cement mixer truck collided this week killing an...

• Teen Facing Vehicular Homicide In Death of Friend

  Eddie Farah | September 04, 2008 12:54 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A Jacksonville, Florida teenager has been charged with vehicular homicide in the death of his friend in an accident that happened in Mandarin last June. 17-year-old Daniel R. Farren had been...

• Red-Light Runners- Smile Your On Candid Camera

  Eddie Farah | September 03, 2008 11:42 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Those who feel compelled to run red lights have a new challenge in Florida. This week a new technology will take images of red-light runners and automatically issue them a ticket. The new...