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• Computers Don’t Make Better Decisions Than Humans: New Discoveries From Air France Wreckage As Body Parts Are Found

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | June 17, 2009 4:58 PM | 2 CommentsMiami, FL

  It has been approximately two weeks since Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, and there are still more questions then answers as the search continues...

• Are Airlines Safe? Or Are There A Whole Lot of Plane Crashes Going On?

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | May 19, 2009 4:58 PM | 3 CommentsMiami, FL

  Within just a few short months we all experienced the Military fighter plane that crashed into a home, the Hudson crash, and more recently, the tragic Colgan Air/Continental Airline's Flight 3407....

• Family Searching For Elderly Woman Who Disappeared After Accident

  Chrissie Cole | February 20, 2009 2:44 PM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  Relatives are desperately seeking the whereabouts of Ethel Hill, 80, of Pompano Beach, who went missing Wednesday evening moments after she was involved in a minor car accident in downtown...

• Chief Justice Calls Potential Budget Cuts "Murder"

  Seth Miles | March 20, 2008 11:31 AM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  Due to fiscal shortfalls, caused in large part by a sinking economy, Florida officials proposed a 10% cut to the Court's budget. Chief Justice Fred Lewis warned Florida's legislators that the cuts would lead to the firing of 900 court employees and be nothing less than a "spear to the heart." The sad reality? The budget cuts are necessitated by a bad short-term federal fiscal policy more...

• "Judicial Hellholes"

  Seth Miles | December 18, 2007 1:44 PM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  Today the American Tort Reform Association ("ATRA") released its list of the top ten "judicial hellholes." South Florida topped the list. News outlets across the country picked up the press release and largely ran it unfiltered. So what was left out?How about a list of some of the members of ATRA? Included in this illustrious list of members are large pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and...

• Vioxx Settlement Reveals Need for Drug Industry Reform

  Seth Miles | November 27, 2007 11:26 AM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  This morning I ran across an editorial about the recent Vioxx settlement that did a great job pointing out the need for reform in the pharmaceutical industry as well as specific areas where reform is needed. Merck announced a few weeks ago that it would settle Vioxx lawsuits for $4.8 billion. The list of necessary reforms is long. The Prescription Drug User Fee Act passed by Congress in 1992...

• Family Awarded $2 Million in Unsolved Negligent Security Case

  Staff Writer | May 24, 2007 11:54 AM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  The family of former University of Miami football player, Bryan Pata, will receive a $2 million settlement from the apartment complex in which the shooting death occurred. Pata had returned to his Kendall apartment on November 7, parked in his designated space and began walking toward his door when he was shot and killed. ''It was totally dark,'' said Haggard, of Haggard Law Firm in Coral...

• Issue of Negligent Security in Virginia Tech Tragedy

  Staff Writer | April 19, 2007 4:10 PM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  I don't think there is a media outlet that hasn't covered the tragic events that took place at Virginia Tech early this week. The outpouring of support touched us all for those students and professors that were brutally shot and killed. What I found particularly interesting was the investigation that has been launched by the governor of Virginia (at the request of Virginia Tech) to look into...

• Plane Crashes Off Miami Beach Today

  Staff Writer | December 19, 2005 4:42 PM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  A Chalk's Ocean Airways sea plane crashed within site of Miami Beach this afternoon, killing at least 14 of its 20 passengers as reported by the Miami Herald. At least 14 of the victim's bodies had been recovered by 4:45 today. There are currently no reports of survivors of the crash and the cause of the accident is unclear at the moment. Witnesses reported seeing the seaplane smoking before it...

• Are computers to blame in another deadly crash? Or was the train involved in the D.C. transit collision too old to be used?

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | June 24, 2009 1:48 PM | 0 CommentsMiami, FL

  The deadly train collision earlier this week, just outside of Washington DC, killed nine people and injured more than 70. Experts immediately began to search through the wreckage trying to find out...