Usually, perpetrators fleeing a crime scene will be afforded little protection under the law for injuries they sustain as a result. However, there are exceptions and it’s important to consider that under Florida’s comparative fault statute, F.S. 768.81, those who are partially to blame for their own injuries can still…
In many Fort Lauderdale car accident cases, the amount of damages available will be determined by how much insurance coverage is involved. Auto insurance policy limits are generally expressed as: Amount per person; Amount per accident. So let’s say there is a policy that allows $100,000 per person and up…
When a drunk driver crashes into your vehicle in Florida, what recourse do you have to recover damages? The answer depends on the underlying circumstances, but generally, you will want to explore: The at-fault driver/ insurance; The owner of the vehicle/ insurance; The employer of the at-fault driver (if he…
Just because a Fort Lauderdale car accident occurs at relatively low speeds does not mean it cannot cause serious injuries. Consider that a typical passenger car weighs about 2,000 pounds. If that vehicle makes impact at 10 mph, it’s going to strike with 3.7 tons of force. Of course, this has…
One of the biggest and most precise studies to date on the problem of distracted driving in the U.S. has been released. The results are not good. Researchers with the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, in a new paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows…
A defective car seat resulted in permanent and profound injuries to a then-7-year-old boy. Now, a jury in Texas has awarded his family $124 million, assigning 55 percent of the blame to the car manufacturer. Another 25 percent of the blame was assigned to the driver who rear-ended the car…
The Florida Supreme Court recently made it clear that auto insurance companies don’t have the right to ward off bad faith lawsuits after years of unreasonable delays, denials and non-response by paying the policy limits at the last minute. In Fridman v. Safeco Ins. Co. of Ill., the court denied…
A $3 million damage award for the wrongful death of a husband and father killed in a car accident was upheld recently by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. In Brown v. Davis, decedent was killed on a bridge crossing over the Mississippi River between Illinois and…
Just weeks ago, a driver operating a passenger car rear-ended a Broward County public school bus on Northeast Ninth Avenue in Fort Lauderdale. The entire hood of the black Acura TSX was underneath the bus. No one was seriously injured, but as evidenced by news reports, these kinds of incidents…
Last year, a University of Central Florida student left a friend’s house to pick up her mother and grandmother from the airport at 4 a.m. She never arrived. After reportedly falling asleep at the wheel, 21-year-old Chloe Arenas careened off the road and into an unguarded retention pond. Having lost consciousness from…