Miami Personal Injury Law Blog

Florida is one of 15 states that do not recognize a texting while driving ban. There has been much debate about the topic and both the state House and Senate have mulled the issue for quite some time -- but it is still legal for someone to text while operating a vehicle.

What cannot be disputed, though, is that taking your eyes off the road for a few seconds to read a text message is dangerous. It can easily lead to a car accident. Really, it doesn't matter whether its texting or a book or a TV in your vehicle's center console. If you take your eyes or focus off the road, the chances of getting into a car accident increase. You have less of a chance to react to a sudden change in surroundings.

The water can be a very dangerous place to ply ones trade or to recreate. Unlike accidents that occur on land, accidents on the ocean off Florida tend to occur in relative isolation and at all hours of the day. As a result, the circumstances can be left to question. That can make it difficult for those who suffer injuries or death in boat accidents to know where to turn for help. Contacting an attorney is a good first step.

Investigators are working now to try to discover just what happened in a sailboat racing accident last weekend. A 64-year-old Florida man is among three people known to have died in the wreck off the coast of California. Two other men were residents of Southern California. The skipper of the boat is missing at sea and presumed dead.

Another commonly used drug in the battle against Type 2 diabetes appears headed for the trash bin. First it was Avandia, Now its sister drug, Actos, is coming under increasing fire.

Florida residents who are regular readers of this blog will likely remember that Avandia fell into disfavor last year because of studies indicating an increased risk of heart disease in those who used it. Actos, which is in the same drug family as Avandia, was thought to be a safer replacement therapy. But warnings are now out noting that it could pose dangers to consumers by increasing a user's risk of developing bladder cancer.

There's a reason a security gate is called a security gate. It's supposed to increase safety. But the family of a 7-year-old girl in Tampa is faced with the question of how it could be that the child was killed after being crushed to death by a gate at their apartment complex.

Managers at the Brookside Apartments aren't commenting on the horror that took place last week. Concerns about how dangerous conditions on the property may leave them open to premises liability claims may be prompting their silence. Meanwhile, out on the fence near the gate where the possible wrongful death occurred, friends and relatives of the child have created a makeshift memorial.