Bed handles or rails often seen on hospital and nursing home beds, may be deadly. Some of the bed rails can become separated from the mattress creating a gap that...

8 year old Kaylin's mother thought she was doing everything she could do to protect her daughter while driving in a car. She knew that children should be riding in...

As I've previously discussed in a blog, Florida is the worst state in the country for insurance fraud and staged auto accidents. Tampa has recently overtaken Miami as the worst...

Distasio law firm clients recently filed a lawsuit against Walgreens alleging an error in filling their mother's prescription medicine caused or substantially contributed to her death. Suzie Schottelkotte of The...

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit is responsible for the arrests of several CNAs and LPNs accused of Nursing Home Abuse or Neglect. In a Press...

Summer is quickly approaching. With the warm weather, Floridians often cool off in their pools. Unfortunately, that also means more pool deaths. For example, the Daytona News Journal has reported...

In 2005 Dateline NBC dubbed US 19 in Florida as one of the most dangerous roads in the country. Many improvements have been put in place on US 19. However,...

According to a recent analysis of crime and accident statistics, reported by Ozarksfirst.com; Orlando, Florida is the most dangerous spring break Destination with Daytona Beach as a close second, when...

In Florida, except in rare circumstances, all personal injury cases must be mediated at some point after a lawsuit is filed. Mediation is an opportunity to settle your case. The...

Media, politicians and special interest groups often claim that the high cost of health care is related to doctors performing "defensive medicine" out of fear of being sued by a...

Tampa Bay is the worst area in Florida for staged car accidents. As a result, Hillsborough county officials have drafted an ordinance to crack down on bogus claims. Florida's PIP...

Eway pharmacy error may cause a pregnant woman to miscarry or have a child with severe birth defects. Mareena Silva, six weeks pregnant, was given Methotrexate, a drug that aborts...

Doctors at the Albany Medical Center did a study of more than 2,000 near miss prescription errors. Crystal Phend wrote an article about this study for MedPage Today, which takes...

Uninsured Motorist (UM) Coverage is a type of coverage on your automobile policy that protects you if you are involved in an automobile accident and the at-fault driver does not have Bodily Injury Coverage...

Republicans in Wisconsin have proposed a bill that would repeal provisions set by democrats in 2009 that raised minimum coverage limits on auto accident insurance. Scott Richmond of the Associated...

Here is a topic not many people know about, BUT EVERYONE who runs errands for their employer SHOULD know about. For most people, using their car to run an errand...

INJURED IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT WITH NO MEDICAL INSURANCE If you are injured in an automobile accident and you do not have medical insurance, it can be difficult to get...

According to an Article written by Danny Valentine and published by the St. Petersburg Times, Tampa has the highest number of questionable car accident claims in the state of Florida and...

According to the Ledger.com, on July 20, 2010 a Polk County, Florida jury at the court house in Bartow rendered a verdict of 114 Million dollars in a nursing home...

In Tampa and every other city in Florida, law enforcement officers routinely give the at fault party in a car accident a ticket. Most people think the officers decision that the other person was...