InjuryBoard Jacksonville Archives

• Who Does Limiting Attorney's Fees Eventually Hurt?

  Eddie Farah | February 28, 2009 12:37 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  An opinion in the Wall Street Journal this week talks about a bill introduced in the Florida legislature this week, HB 903, that would limit the amount a trial attorney could take home in the...

• Luring Young Women To Smoke With Pink Campaign

  Eddie Farah | February 28, 2009 12:20 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  A new campaign is revolting, even for the tobacco industry. The American Cancer Society is warning teen girls that they are being targeted with a new campaign dressed in pink. Don’t be...

• Hot Police Pursuit Kills Citizen in Jacksonville

  Eddie Farah | February 27, 2009 11:48 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  It happened in a split moment. The Florida High Patrol (FHP) says Jacksonville Sheriff’s officer, Marcus Kilpatrick, may or may not have had his lights and sirens on when heran his police...

• Toddler Run Over By Unlicenced Teen Uncle

  Eddie Farah | February 22, 2009 10:43 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A tragic accident occurred Sunday afternoon when a unlicensed teenager got behind the wheel of the car. The 16-year-old was asked by his family to move the car after a church service at the...

• School Bus Driver Kicks Kids Off

  Eddie Farah | February 21, 2009 11:07 PM | 3 Comments
  Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

  This Jacksonville school bus driver had simply had enough. Several Ribault Middle School students were messing around on the bus, threatening to open the emergency door on the back of the bus. A...

• Doctors Want To Protect Their Reputations

  Eddie Farah | February 20, 2009 10:21 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  We’ve already warned consumers against signing binding arbitration documents when you go to the doctor’s office and are presented with a pile of paperwork to sign. Binding arbitration...

• Florida Jury Awards $8 Million To Widow Of Smoker

  Eddie Farah | February 18, 2009 8:22 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Tobacco company, Philip Morris, was dealt an $8 million blow Wednesday when a Fort Lauderdale jury awarded the widow of a smoker $8 million in damages. It took two days for the six jurors to...

• Foreclosures Stopped At Two Florida Banks

  Eddie Farah | February 15, 2009 12:52 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  With Florida leading the country as one of the top states for foreclosure, two banks here say they will stop foreclosures temporarily as the federal government tries to fix the housing...

• State Farm Plans Its Exit From Florida

  Eddie Farah | February 14, 2009 10:32 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  State Farm is one step closer to pulling its property insurance policies out of the state. Florida’s Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty indicated the insurance giant should go and...

• Georgia Lures Industry With Promises Of Curtailing Civil Rights

  Eddie Farah | February 13, 2009 1:32 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  This is reminiscent of what’s put Michigan on the map as the friendliest state for drug and device makers. In Michigan, drug companies enjoy immunity from prosecution. Imagine if you or I...

• Smoker Wins First Phase In Tobacco Trial

  Eddie Farah | February 12, 2009 11:53 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Toxic Substances

  http://uk.reuters.com/article/usTopNews/idUKTRE51C07620090213 For those of us who have fought Big Tobacco for a long time, this was a much welcomed victory. On Thursday, a jury in Florida ruled...

• North Florida Resident Puts State On Salmonella Map

  Eddie Farah | February 08, 2009 11:10 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Toxic Substances

  It was always amazing that Florida was one of seven states that had dodged the bullet on the salmonella outbreak in the country - until now. A North Florida resident has shown signs of salmonella...

• Auto Fraud Database Now Online

  Eddie Farah | February 08, 2009 10:59 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The U.S Department of Justice has put an auto database online to uncover fraud. The system will allow the state department of motor vehicles, law enforcement, and consumers to check a car’s...

• Tracking Your Dangerous Teen Drivers - Literally

  Eddie Farah | February 08, 2009 9:28 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  You may have seen them on the road. A teenager with their drivers license less than one year, speeding past, jamming their brakes on when someone doesn’t get out of their way, trying to drive...

• Can Mold Kill? Parents Say Yes and File Lawsuit Against Hospital

  Eddie Farah | February 05, 2009 9:44 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Can mold kill? The families of three young children say yes, and they’ve filed a lawsuit against St. Joseph’s Hospital accusing the hospital of failing to protect the leukemia patients...

• Stay Put An Answer To Foreclosure?

  Eddie Farah | February 01, 2009 11:15 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  There is more and more conversation about this concept. As many Americans find they cannot stay in their homes because of job loss or a sub-prime loan that has now doubled, one Congresswoman is...