MIAMI, FL—July 13, 2011 – While authorities from the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office deemed a toddler’s recent drowning to be accidental, the fatal swimming pool accident yet again sheds light on the dangers many children, and even inexperienced swimmers, face. According to information provided by the Tampa Tribune, a 19-month-old New…
MIAMI, FL—With 668 boat accidents reported during the year 2010 alone, Florida leads the nation in boating accidents and resultant fatalities, according to statistical data provided by the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). Such accidents resulted in 79 boating deaths and left 389…
MIAMI, FL—Royal Caribbean Cruises was recently found negligent in the lawsuit filed following an onboard toxic gas leak that killed three ship crew members and injured 19 others, according to reports by NBC Los Angeles. “Royal Caribbean’s actions demonstrated a gross indifference to the life and health of not only…
MIAMI, FL—Boynton Beach Police officials are investigating the near drowning of a 1 ½-year-old boy, which occurred in a residential swimming pool on the morning of June 21, 2011. According to information provided by the Palm Beach Post, police told reporters that the toddler was transferred from Bethesda Memorial Hospital…
Miami, FL – June 21, 2011 – As revealed by a groundbreaking investigative report published by The Miami Herald in May, Florida’s assisted living facilities (ALFs) have seen scores — and perhaps hundreds — of deaths under questionable circumstances. The newspaper obtained the confidential records of 70 people who died…
MIAMI, FL— June 20, 2011 – A North Florida woman who claimed she was sexually assaulted by a massage therapist at a Miami spa, who was already being investigated for the alleged sexual assault of two other women, filed a lawsuit against the resort on June 16, 2011. According to…
MIAMI, FL— June 17 2011 – As temperatures continue to rise here in South Florida, adults and children alike will be making their way to swimming pools and beaches as a means of escaping the looming summer heat. While the simple acts of jumping into the ocean or a swimming…
MIAMI, FL— Federal health authorities recently reported that since May 2011, three Alaska cruise ships have been plagued by norovirus outbreaks. According to information provided by the San Jose Mercury News, two of the cruise ship illness outbreaks were reported on the Sea Princess and another on the Celebrity Millennium,…
MIAMI, FL— June 14, 2011 – A recent investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that a significant portion of the almost 300 alleged sexual assault reports received by U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Police between January 2007 and July 2010 were not relayed to the VA Inspector General’s Office.…
MIAMI, FL—Officials at the University of South Florida (USF) recently reported that there appeared to be an upsurge in the number of sexual assaults reported on the Tampa-based campus, which accommodates approximately 40,000 students. According to information provided by the St. Petersburg Times, USF authorities noted that although seven sexual…