A wrongful death in a car accident in Florida is one that is caused by another person’s wrongful action or negligence. The survivors of a person who has been killed in a car accident in Florida brought about by the negligence of another, for example a driver who was speeding, distracted, or drunk, [...]
Read More →What is a Wrongful Death Claim in Florida?
A wrongful death in Florida is a death that results from another party’s wrongful action or negligence. The survivors of a person killed in an accident caused by the negligence of another, for example in a car collision, may file a wrongful death claim to [...]
Read More →In 2010, 2,444 people died in car accidents on Florida roads. The good news is that this number was down from the previous year by 4.6 percent. This is not much consolation for the families of those who died as a result of someone’s carelessness. The number is much too high.
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Read More →A Member of My Family Died in a Car Accident in Clearwater, Do We Have a Wrongful Death Case?
Any time we lose someone we love, it’s always “wrongful.” But “wrongful death” has a specific legal meaning. A wrongful death is a death that was caused by another driver’s careless, negligent or reckless [...]
Read More →Lakewood Ranch-Families of teens killed in Lakewood Ranch reach out to help others. It was any parent’s worst nightmare. Best friends 18-year-old Brett Wagner and Joshua Rogers, both seniors at Lakewood Ranch High School, were killed in a car accident on Christmas night. They were thrown from a pickup truck that was struck by [...]
Read More →Taylor Sauer was 18 years old and was texting every 90 seconds as she drove from Utah State University on the way to her parents’ home on January 14. And then she sent one last text: “I can’t discuss this matter [...]
Read More →TAMPA— A driver of a vehicle was killed in the early hours of Sunday morning in a collision with a party bus on the Courtney Campbell Parkway, Tampa police report. The fatal accident was reported in the Tampa Bay Times. Lt. Brian Gant, a spokesperson for the Tampa Police Department, [...]
Read More →There are many reasons to hire an attorney immediately after an accident, here are the top eight reasons to hire an experienced Florida wrongful death attorney before the insurance adjusters start to call. In my twenty years of representing accident victims in Florida and their families, I have observed their sense of anxiety [...]
Read More →Preventing car crashes involving police officers during normal activities has created a State Task Force to investigate the problem. About 4:30 a.m. Sunday, February 19, a 45-year-old St. Petersburg man was struck and killed by a St. Petersburg police cruiser as he was crossing [...]
Read More →Big Rig Accidents and Car Crashes – 97% of Those Killed are Car Occupants. Did you know . . . ?
Traffic fatalities were down in 2010, but fatalities caused by truck crashes increased by nearly 9% to 3,675. Large trucks comprise only 3% of all registered vehicles on the [...]
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