Articles Posted in Car Accidents

Florida tends to have broad interpretation with regard to vicarious liability in car accident cases. That is, while third parties generally aren’t liable for the actions of someone else, Florida’s dangerous instrumentality doctrine provides that a vehicle is an inherently dangerous tool. Therefore, vehicle owners in Florida are subject to liability anytime that vehicle, driven…

The untimely death of a father in a traffic crash, leaving behind three young children, gave rise to a wrongful death claim that insurers sought to deny. The defendants (the at-fault drivers and two insurers) argued the children had no right to make a claim because the man’s long-estranged wife had been denied compensation, and…

A woman who sustained permanent soft-tissue injuries as a result of a rear-end collision has prevailed in her $1.1 million lawsuit, following an appeal to Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal. Fort Lauderdale car accident attorneys understand that while the justices did find evidence of judicial error on the part of the trial court, those…

The New Mexico Supreme Court recently handed down a ruling that significantly broadens the grounds on which injured plaintiffs can bring claims of negligence against a property or business owner in that state. Specifically, the court struck down the issue of “foreseeability” in premises liability, finding that a court should never consider whether harm was…

A grieving father is back to square one in his fight to seek compensation from the insurance company that represented a man who owned the vehicle that ended his son’s life in a motorcycle crash. Florida’s Third District Court of Appeals has affirmed summary judgment in favor of the insurance company in Rodriguez v. Security…

If a person is arrested for a DUI in Florida, judges have the authority to impose the use of ignition interlock devices. If a driver has more than one DUI already on his record, the devices are mandatory. Still, they aren’t required for first-time offenders, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving and vendors of the devices…

Separate crashes in Florida involving spring-break revelers reportedly involved drivers who had been drinking excessively before getting behind the wheel. Every year it seems we are confronted with the darker side of these mid-term celebrations, most often in the form of injuries sustained or lives lost as a result of drunk driving. Our Fort Lauderdale…

Officials in NYC may be on the right track in focusing their traffic safety efforts where it counts. According to the New York Post, Mayor de Blasio is pushing NYPD commanders for “zero” traffic fatalities in the big apple. They’re shifting some focus from robberies and shootings to include reckless driving. After constant grief over…

Two years of inconvenient construction recently kicked off to demolish and rebuild the bridge over Middle River. Moving from two lanes to three lanes, westbound Sunrise will experience serious construction between Northeast 20th Avenue and Middle River Drive, according to the Sun Sentinel. The more than 40,000 vehicles a day that travel over this bridge…

Unless you’ve got thousands of dollars to blow and a lot of spare time, you might want to turn off the radio, throw your cell phone in the back seat and pay attention to the road. The Washington Post is reporting that December and the holiday season is a popular time for aggressive driving and…