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• Florida teen dies because he was not wearing seatbelt

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | November 09, 2009 10:46 PM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  Matthew Kornya's Nov. 7 car accident didn’t have to be tragic. He was not supposed to be driving a car because, as a minor, he only held a learner’s permit. He may have also been...

• Traveling this summer outside of the US? Be careful what you sign when you check in.

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | July 21, 2009 9:41 PM | 8 CommentsMiami, FL

  If you’ve ever been to an athletic event, you know that when two teams compete, often one is “home” and one is “away”. You prefer for your team to be home, not just...

• Mandatory Cystic Fibrosis Testing for Florida Newborns

  Alison Young | April 11, 2009 2:02 PM | 1 CommentMiami, FL

  On September 17, 2007 the State of Florida began newborn screening for Cystic Fibrosis. CF affects approximately 30,000 Americans and people diagnosed with the disease live, on average, to 37. While...

• Air Traffic Controller On A Personal Phone Call Just Before the Hudson Crash

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | September 17, 2009 11:37 AM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  Quoting from the the Daily Record, the Chairman of the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) Deborah Hersman, ...told a congressional committee Wednesday that shortly after the single-engine...

• Florida Governor vetoes Legislative Bill that gave State Farm clearance to charge higher fees than all other regulated insurance companies

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | July 06, 2009 6:02 PM | 5 CommentsMiami, FL

  In 1348 Europe was devastated by the Black Plague (now thought to have been bubonic plague, or Yersinia pestis). It killed somewhere between thirty and sixty percent of the population of Europe. One...

• Cruise Ship Litigation: Defendants Allowed to Pick Forums, Lower SOLs and not Produce Employee Witnesses

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | July 21, 2009 4:41 PM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  It’s hard enough to go through the process of filing a law suit against a defendant that stays in one city, state, or country. Things get complicated if you try to proceed against a mobile...

• Another Airbus Crash- Travelers becoming concerned about airline safety records and airline travel

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | June 30, 2009 4:01 PM | 9 CommentsMiami, FL

  Yemen flight IY 626 was en route from Yemen to Comoros when it encountered what was described as some “tough weather”. The Airbus A310, holding 153 people, was preparing to land when the...

• Why Link Medical Malpractice Reform With Healthcare Reform? Does not make sense.

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | October 01, 2009 9:20 AM | 5 CommentsMiami, FL

  For the past few months, the one public policy that has been on every American's mind is health care reform. It seems like everyone has their own, unique opinion on the state of our country's health...

• A Family's Liability- when a family is negligent, does the liability extend down the family chain?

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | August 24, 2009 6:24 PM | 6 CommentsMiami, FL

  On July 26th 2009, Diane Schuler loaded her 2 children and three nieces into her car and hit the road, returning home to Long Island after a weekend of camping. This was 9:30 in the morning. By 1:30...

• A layman's explanation of comparative fault and or contributory negligence and how it affects your recovery.

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | July 27, 2009 11:00 AM | 1 CommentMiami, FL

  Many of us will at some point in our lives be involved in a personal injury lawsuit. It may be because we’ve been involved in some way in a car accident. Or, we could be on a jury listening to...