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…
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…
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…
There are over 20,000 car accidents in Florida every year. Preliminary counts of South Florida traffic deaths in 2015 suggest a sharp increase. In Palm Beach County, for example, The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles counted a 29 percent increase in the first six months of the…