The Injury Board Jacksonville Archives

• Tougher Seat Belt Laws In Florida

  Eddie Farah | April 29, 2009 11:50 PM | 3 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Ever since Dori Slosberg and Katie Marchetti died in separate auto accidents more than a decade ago, their parents felt their deaths had a higher purpose. Neither young woman was wearing a seat...

• Boaters Rescued Off Coast Of Jacksonville

  Eddie Farah | April 26, 2009 12:06 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  This time the story had a good ending. Six people were rescued in the Atlantic about 90 miles east of Jacksonville after their boat started to sink. Luckily for the group, a good Samaritan saw the...

• Mystery Compound That Killed Horses In Florida To Be Revealed

  Eddie Farah | April 24, 2009 10:17 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Early this week, the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine may release the name of the drug that killed 21 polo horses as they were getting ready to compete in a Florida match. The...

• Drywall Lawsuit Filed In Florida

  Eddie Farah | April 22, 2009 5:19 PM | 2 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  There is quite a growing problem in Florida for homeowners who unknowingly bought homes with drywall made in China. A class-action lawsuit has now been brought in South Florida against...

• A Big Break For Big Tobacco Proposed In Florida

  Eddie Farah | April 21, 2009 11:22 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Big Tobacco may be receiving a shield from the Florida legislature. Right now there are about 8,000 sick smokers, former smokers, or survivors of smokers, who have sued the tobacco industry for...

• Jacksonville Leads In State, National Foreclosure Rate

  Eddie Farah | April 20, 2009 12:16 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Jacksonville has the dubious distinction of exceeding state and federal rates for foreclosures. In fact, rates here have hit a five-year high. In March, foreclosure related notices were sent out to...

• Boat Driver Not Intoxicated In Easter Sunday Wreck That Killed Five

  Eddie Farah | April 19, 2009 11:46 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Blood alcohol has just come back on the person in the driver's seat of that Easter Sunday boating crash on the Intracoastal that left five people dead. There was a great deal of speculation that...

• SUV Driver Plows Into School Bus With 30 Aboard

  Eddie Farah | April 17, 2009 12:18 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  An early morning rush led to the injury of six students when a school bus was struck by an SUV. Just after 9 a.m., police were called to the collision at the intersections of Firestone and Melvin...

• Fatal Boating Accident Grief And Tributes Pour In

  Eddie Farah | April 16, 2009 11:40 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Head & Brain Injuries

  It was a senseless loss of life on Easter Sunday. And the funerals are now underway. Three of the five killed Sunday on a boat in the Intracoastal area of Palm Valley south of Jacksonville are...

• Three Car Wreck Kills Two, Closes Dames Point Bridge

  Eddie Farah | April 12, 2009 11:37 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  It was a tragic beginning to the Easter holiday for two drivers of SUVs. Both were killed Friday night on State Road 9A in Jacksonville in a three-vehicle wreck. It happened around 6:30 when,...

• The Fight To Cap Payday Loans

  Eddie Farah | April 11, 2009 1:11 AM | 12 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  PayDay Loans. If you see them you should run the other way. Florida is among a few states that has tried to stop the abusive high interest loans. In the average scenario, a person takes out a...

• Florida Attorney General Sues Man For Caylee Doll, Vick Chew Toys And Deceptive Practices

  Eddie Farah | April 09, 2009 1:52 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  It is the utmost in bad taste and proof that there are bad people among us. Apparently the Florida Attorney General agrees. The Jacksonville businessman who created toys in the image of slain...

• Texting Truck Driver Arresting After Hitting School Bus

  Eddie Farah | April 08, 2009 1:35 AM | 2 Comments
  Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)

  Seven months after a school bus erupted into flames, killing one student aboard, the driver of an 18-wheeler that caused the crash has finally been arrested. 30-year-old Reinaldo Gonzales turned...

• Leaving Kids In Cars - Please Stop This Fatal Distraction

  Eddie Farah | April 05, 2009 2:15 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Already this year two little ones have been left in cars by inattentive adults to die in the sweltering heat. It’s called hyperthermia and in Florida heat stroke can happen in a very short...

• Medtronic Defibrillator Lead Linked to 13 Deaths

  Eddie Farah | April 04, 2009 1:08 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Devices & Implants

  An independent panel of physicians now says the death count from the Medtronic Sprint Fidelis cardiac wire is closer to 13, more than the five deaths the company previously revealed. Last month,...

• When It Might Be Okay Not To Ticket A Speeder

  Eddie Farah | April 03, 2009 1:53 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  This sounds like an April Fools joke but unfortunately it isn’t. If there is ever an excuse to drive fast, I can’t think of a better one than driving your wife to the hospital who...

• DUI Manslaughter Charges for NFL Player

  Eddie Farah | April 02, 2009 12:31 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  His Bentley was the car that hit a pedestrian crossing a Miami causeway. There is no dispute about that. The question that lingered concerned the outcome of a blood alcohol test. Now that’s...