Outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness aboard cruise ships are now a fairly common occurrence affecting thousands of passengers every year. However, stricken passengers have generally had a hard time recovering anything more than partial refunds, and/or discounts on future travel, from the operators of disease-carrying ships. Even these token forms of…
A Palm Beach Deputy Sheriff severely injured in a fuel fire that broke out at a Marathon, Florida Circle K gas station will now be able to pursue punitive damages against Circle K Stores and the Shell Oil Corporation. Upon careful review of pre-trial evidence gathered by burn victim Richard…
According to the Miami Herald, a woman lost her life after a man recklessly drove his car into a Miami Gardens bus bench yesterday around 4 pm. 4 other people were seriously injured while waiting for the bus at Northwest 199th Street and Second Avenue. The driver who was speeding…
On the morning of April 11, seven-year-old Zhanaye Williams and her brother climbed aboard the automatic gate located at the entrance to their Tampa, Florida apartment complex, hoping to pass the time as they awaited their school bus. Suddenly, the gate began to topple, and unable to escape, Zhanaye suffered…
A national study by Yale University doctors, John Leventhal and Julie Gaither of New Haven, Connecticut contradicts the previous reports and findings by Child Protective Services regarding the number of child abuse cases in the US. This new report demonstrates why the previous reports by Child Protective Services were inaccurate…
The spotlight was once again on Florida’s nursing homes last month when WFTV 9 exposed the battering of a Southern Oaks Health Care Facility Alzheimer’s patient by one of the St. Cloud facility’s nurses. The nurse was arrested on felony abuse charges when police acted on an eyewitness account of…
Florida A&M University responded last week to the wrongful death suit filed against it by the parents of Robert Champion, the young drum major who died at the hands of fellow marching band members during a notorious hazing incident that took place in Orlando last November. Triggering a tide of…
Three Miami Herald articles, posted since August 2, 2012, confirm Broward authorities determined the cause of death of a 4 year old child named Jordan Coleman. Little Jordan, was left to die of heat exhaustion in a Toyota SUV, while his caregivers took other children inside an apartment building for…
A drunk driver, with his one year old child in the back seat, was arrested after being stopped by Boynton Beach police. Driving in the bicycle lane on North Federal Highway, Yair Espinsosa had a suspended license. His only identification was a Mexican passport. (sunsentinel.com) After police pulled Espinosa over,…
A painful public memory was reawakened late last week when the Gruenenthal Group, which introduced the drug thalidomide in the 1950s, issued an apology to thousands worldwide who suffered severe birth defects after their mothers took thalidomide during pregnancy. The gesture brought no closure for thalidomide victims who have yet…