Miami Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Miscellaneous

The Sweetbay Supermarket, a Florida chain of grocery stores, and Hannaford Bros. announced last week that 4.2 Million credit card and debit card numbers were obtained during store transactions. Over 1800 cases of credit card fraud have been reported. The credit & debit card numbers were illegally obtained during the card authorization process.Hannaford was notified of unusual credit card...

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...

United States District Judge awarded $37,000,000 to two survivors of a massacre in a Peruvian village. Both survivors were children and witnessed the slaughter that left 69 dead. The defendant, Telmo Hurtado, was a Second Lieutenant in Peru's army looking for members of the Shining Path rebel group.The suit was brought inder the Alien Tort Statute that permits victims to sue for acts that...

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...

The sister of a man who killed himself after being targeted by the show "To Catch a Predator" as a suspected pedophile is suing NBC Universal for $105 million.Louis William Conradt, a former U.S. state prosecutor, killed himself in November 2006 after police and camera crews came to his home for NBC's Dateline Program "To Catch a Predator". The show, which involves Dateline and Internet...

If you are disabled in a way that prevents you from doing the work you did previously, you may be entitled to Social Security Income (SSI) Disability benefits. This also may apply if your injury or disability prevents you from doing other jobs for 1 year or more. Keep in mind that if you are receiving Social Security Income (SSI) Disability Benefits and you leave the country for more than 30...

Cruise Ship's Steering Malfunctions, Injuring Dozens:The new Crown Princess cruise liner Hamilton listed (nearly 45 degress according to passenger Ryan Slater) in a cruise ship accident in the Atlantic Ocean off Port Canveral Florida today. Two persons were injured critically, ten persons were injured seriously, and another 30 or 40 persons experienced a range of injuries, but no deaths have...

Kendrick Sherman of Bimini filed a lawsuit against Chalk's Ocean Airways in Miami-Dade Cicuit Court Tuesday, alleging Chalk's knew of corrosion in the wings of their aging planes as early as ten years ago, according to the Sun Sentinel yesterday. Chalk's has been financially challenged over the past few years (which may mean the planes have been poorly maintained), but plaintiffs in the case...

Earlier this month, Cruise industry executives from Carnival Cruise Lines and Royal Caribbean Cruises testified to a congressional committee regarding the disappearance of passengers from cruises. Statistics about the number of people who go missing on cruises are finally beginning to come to light. As frightening as this is, disappearance from a cruise is unlikely, as these cruise lines admit...

A boater found the 20th and final body of a passenger that was on the ill-fated Chalk's sea plane flight earlier this week. The body was not identified but authorities confirmed it was a passenger aboard the flight bound for Bimini. Federal Investigators have found stress cracks in the wings of the nearly 60 year-old airplane and speculate that these may have been the cause of the wing...

NTSB investigators found a crack in the right wing of the Chalk's Airways plane that crashed off South Beach Monday. Classified as a "fatigue crack," the NTSB's acting chairman said that the plane's age could have been a factor. However he did note older planes may safely fly if they are properly maintained. Chalks' Airways Flight 101 was 58 years old. Below are some pictures provided by the...

Of the 20 people aboard Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101, which went down in a firey crash off South Beach Monday, at least 19 were killed. That's how many bodies had been found by 5:30 Monday afternoon. Officials say that they cannot confirm all 20 passengers were killed until they recover all 20 bodies. The NTSB investigators expected to raise the plane's remains early Today.''We want to...

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...

In what is believed to be the third lawsuit involving disappearances aboard cruise liners filed in the last two months, the family of a Royal Caribbean cabin steward has filed a $10 million lawsuit agains the company claiming they did not extend enough effort in attemps to find their son. Symon Dias is believed to have gone overboard on Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas somewhere between...

Recently unsealed court documents reveal that Teresa Heinz Kerry received $15 million in a wrongful death lawsuit filed after her first husband died in a 1991 plane crash. Kerry sued Lycoming Air Services, the owner of the plane on which her husband was flying, and Sun Co., Inc. the owner of the helicopter that collided with Kerry's husband's plane, alledging that neither properly trained their...