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Adults who serve alcohol to minors or allow underage drinkers to imbibe on their property need to understand that in Florida, they might be held liable for any resulting injuries.

Hollywood injury lawyers are aware of many cases in which parents hosted parties where underage drinking took place, followed by a crash, followed by a lawsuit wherein the parents were found to be negligent and held responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars or more in damages.

However, injuries may not solely be in the form of car accidents, as the recent case of Stafford v. Roadway. This was a social host liability lawsuit that went before the Connecticut Supreme Court, which was tasked with weighing whether an adult who allowed an underage person to drink in his home should be held liable for burn injuries that underage drinker sustained later that night.
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A relatively healthy single mother of two young children was left permanently paralyzed following a series of emergency room treatments by doctors who failed to diagnose the source of pain in her chest, which ultimately led to her paralysis.

As a result, the plaintiff in Tenney v. Shapiro was awarded $8 million by a Broward Circuit Court jury. Fort Lauderdale medical malpractice attorneys understand the award would have been higher, except comparative negligence of a doctor who enjoyed sovereign immunity slashed the award by $11.25 million.

Attorneys for the defendant doctors in the case have indicated they intend to appeal the verdict.
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When law enforcement officials take any person into custody, they have a duty to ensure their safety and well-being. Whether in the back of a patrol car, a jail cell, or in prison, police officers and agencies can be held liable if that individual suffers an injury as a result of negligence, recklessness, or intentional harm. In a tragic Florida case, a retiree was arrested by police in Key West after a routine traffic stop and died in custody. The case is still under investigation and could lead to a wrongful death claim against the responsible officers and departments.

According to reports, the Michigan man had moved to Key West to spend his retirement years. At only 61-years-of age, his life came to an abrupt end after he was taken into custody by police. Our Fort Lauderdale personal injury attorneys are dedicated to protecting the rights of victims and their families. In the event that you or someone you love suffers an injury at the hands of a negligent or harmful individual or entity, you do have the right to take action. Our firm is committed to raising awareness and to taking legal action to prevent future accidents, injuries, and fatalities.
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Though parents are aware of obvious dangers at a pool—shallow diving, slip and fall, or drowning—one of the most overlooked potential hazards at a pool is electrocution. In several recent cases, pools have become electrically charged, leaving children unable to get out and parents unable to rescue them without getting shocked themselves. Fox News has posted a surveillance video of an apartment complex pool the moment that a young girl grabs a handrail and gets shocked. She froze in the water and was unable to get out. The video also shows a man going to rescue her who also gets shocked as he is trying to pull her out of the water. Several other children in the pool were shocked during the three-minute ordeal.

According to investigators, the pool was charged by unconnected ground wires to the pool’s pump house. Since the accident, the pool has been drained and closed. Our Fort Lauderdale personal injury lawyers are experienced in representing individuals who have been impacted by an accidental injury or death. We are committed to investigating the cause of the accident and in identifying responsible parties. By holding individuals and entities accountable and raising awareness, our objective is to prevent future accidents and injuries.
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A family seeking to hold accountable the strip club that served alcohol to an already-drunk off-duty officer who then drove drunk, crashed and killed their beloved husband and father is confronting a major setback, following a recent decision by the Alabama Supreme Court.

Following the officer’s criminal conviction, the family of the minister he killed pursued civil action against both the officer, based on general negligence, and the strip club, via the state’s dram shop laws.

Broward County DUI injury lawyers note that dram shop laws vary from state-to-state, but the statutes in Alabama and Florida are comparable.
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A personal injury lawsuit stemming from a New Year’s Eve DUI crash has been settled for $1 million, according to the victim’s lawyers.

The 26-year-old victim suffered multiple fractured vertebrae in her back when the vehicle in which she was riding rolled over and struck a tree. The driver, now 31, had reportedly taken her eyes off the road for a moment to change the radio station. The vehicle drifted to the right, struck a tree stump and overturned. Tests later revealed the driver’s blood-alcohol content was almost twice the legal limit.

Of particular interest to our Deerfield Beach DUI injury lawyers was the fact that no one at the bar believed the driver to be intoxicated. According to witnesses, she wasn’t slurring her words. She wasn’t stumbling as she walked. She wasn’t being especially loud or boisterous – all things one might expect from someone who was heavily intoxicated.
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Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeals is allowing a slip-and-fall lawsuit to move forward against a South Florida hospital, but it simultaneously undercut the ability for the plaintiff to make a strong argument for damages.

West Palm Beach injury attorneys recognize that slip-and-fall lawsuits have become tougher to win in Florida just over the last few years, with the passage of legislation in 2010 that requires plaintiffs to show not just that some foreign substance caused the fall, but that the defendant knew or should have known about that substance and failed to mitigate it or warn others about it.

In Denniser v. Columbia Hospital Corp., this standard is going to be more difficult to reach because the court affirmed the plaintiff’s standing as a “trespasser” at the time of the incident, which significantly lowers the legal duty the defendant owed to protect her.
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As summer arrives, Florida residents will continue to see a rise in water-related injuries and fatalities, including swimming accidents, drowning, and boating collisions. Earlier this month a popular South Florida radio DJ was involved in a boating accident in Key Biscayne that resulted in the death of a 23-year-old bystander. According to reports, “DJ Laz” was behind the wheel of a 40-foot vessel, a.k.a. “Off The Air” when the accident occurred. The 23-year-old victim was helping to push the vessel off the sand dune when he was likely caught in the propeller. Medical examiners listed his cause of death as “multiple chop wounds.”

While many boating accidents occur on the water, this is a tragic incident that occurred while trying to push the boat off of a sand dune. When working near boat engines, it is important that operators and bystanders stand clear to prevent similar accidents and fatalities. Our boating accident attorneys in Fort Lauderdale are dedicated to helping victims recover compensation for losses. We are also experienced in handling wrongful death claims on behalf of families who have lost a loved one in a tragic boating accident.
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Filing a medical malpractice lawsuit in Florida involves meeting a very specific set of criteria. It’s a more intensive process than filing a general personal injury lawsuit because this type of litigation tends to be very complex.

Among the differences: There is a shorter statute of limitations, a requirement of certain expert witnesses to affirm a breach of duty by the medical professional, and the possibility that the hospital could claim sovereign immunity as “special taxing districts.” There may also be caps on certain types of damages.

However, Palm Beach injury lawyers note not every injury that occurs in a hospital, clinic, doctor’s office or nursing home is the result of medical malpractice. Health care professionals being sued will try to argue otherwise, in order to have the plaintiff abide by these stricter standards. Determining the kind of case you have may be a bit more complicated than it appears, but an attorney with experience can help.
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Year-round sunshine is one of the many reasons people flock to Florida. It’s also one of the reasons so many residents have pools, and why Florida has the highest unintentional drowning rate in the country for children between the ages of 1 and 14.

It’s for this reason that legislators passed the Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act, codified in Florida Statutes 515.21-37. This measure spells out specific duties of a residential pool owner in terms of certain safety features and barriers.

Those who fail to implement these measures not only commit a misdemeanor crime, their negligence could result in serious injury or death, particularly to a child. In these instances, our Broward swimming pool accident lawyers know that civil litigation is an appropriate recourse for victims’ families.
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