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Florida’s New Accident Law: How It Affects Your Right to Payment

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If you’ve been injured in an accident in Florida, recent changes to state law could significantly impact your right to compensation. In March 2023, Florida dramatically changed how fault affects injury claims through House Bill 837. This new law could affect your ability to recover money for your medical bills, lost wages, and other damages […]

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When Florida Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Became More Valuable (2025 Update)

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For many years before 2014, any Florida medical malpractice lawyer was extremely limited in how much they could recover for the worst, damages, by Florida law. This is because Florida had something called a “cap” on certain types of damages in medical malpractice cases.  The caps applied to “noneconomic” damages, which meant damages that weren’t

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Warnings About Car Accident Medical Treatment Clinics In Orlando Florida

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Several Car Accident Treatment Clinic Owners In Orlando, Florida, Arrested For Fraud Text or Call 24 Hr Attorney Hotline (407) 803-2139 As an Orlando car accident attorney, I am very concerned about recent news involving fairly widespread auto insurance fraud, allegedly being committed by car accident victim treatment clinics in Orlando.  Anyone who commits fraud makes the plight

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How Has Tort Reform Hurt Consumers? And What Is Tort Reform?

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As an Orlando personal injury attorney, I sometimes answer questions online relating to personal injury and accident law.  This is just a quickie article, which originally was a comment to this post, in which a concerned consumer, Kelline Pickett, had been asking me and another attorney, James Novak, about tort reform.  Since my comment was

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McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case: Why Were The Damages So High?

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As a Florida personal injury attorney, I know many people across the country were outraged when the jury awarded Ms. Liebeck 2.9 million dollars in the McDonald’s Hot Coffee case.  To understand the good reasons for the verdict, one must understand the types of damages available in personal injury cases, including burn injury cases, and

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McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case: What Were The Real Facts? And Do They Support Tort Reform?

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Way back in February of 1992, an elderly woman named Stella Liebeck burned herself on McDonald’s hot coffee while holding the cup between her legs when she was driving, which was a highly offensive form of jackpot justice.  She was the undeserving recipient of the most outrageous variety of lawsuit lottery winnings the country had

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Florida Supreme Court Rejects Caps On Non-Economic Damages In Wrongful Death Medical Malpractices Cases

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This is BIG news for the plaintiffs’ personal injury and medical malpractice bar in Florida.  Many Florida plaintiffs’ personal injury and medical malpractice attorneys have been waiting on the edge of their seat for this Florida Supreme Court decision (Estate of McCall v. U.S.). Economic Versus Non-Economic Damages In Florida Wrongful Death Medical Malpractice Cases

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Do Personal Injury Attorneys Take Frivolous Lawsuits? Part II

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Text or Call 24 Hr Attorney Hotline (407) 803-2139 As an Orlando personal injury attorney, I am often drawn into debates about so-called “frivolous” lawsuits.  During Part I of this article, I shared my opinion regarding whether filed lawsuits are often frivolous.  Now I want to discuss some little known facts about thousands of cases

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Do Personal Injury Attorneys Accept Frivolous Lawsuits? Part I

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Text or Call 24 Hr Attorney Hotline (407) 803-2139 As an Orlando personal injury attorney, I sometimes encounter those who wonder whether personal injury attorneys file so-called “frivolous” lawsuits on a regular basis.  Someone posed that question to me recently online, so I want to give my answer.   Now Taking An Oath That I

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