Florida Injury Attorneys Blog

A Brandon High School wrestling star recently filed a negligence lawsuit seeking $100,000 from Plant City due to an injury he suffered at a skateboard park in 2007. Eric Grajales won four state titles at Brandon High and posted a 218-0 record in his high school wrestling career but the 19-year-old is now worried he won’t be able to wrestle in the 2012 Olympics due to the accident. (read more)

Grajales claims that while skateboarding at Mike E. Sansone Community Park he fell off his board and was slashed by a piece of metal protruding from the cement. The 19-year-old claims he suffered a torn ACL as a result of the metal and now his hopes of wrestling in the Olympics could be in doubt. Grajales is rehabilitating from knee surgery and is scheduled to attend the University of Michigan this fall on a full wrestling scholarship.

If you or a loved one has been injured due to someone else’s negligence, please contact Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter.

A man who left his cell phone in an Arkansas McDonald’s is suing the fast food giant because naked pictures of his wife, which were on his cell, wound up on the Internet. Phillip and Tina Sherman are suing McDonald’s Corp., the owner and the manager of the store for $3 million. (read more)

The most interesting twist in this case is a recent ruling that will allow McDonald’s to sue a third party. That third party is Cody Hess, the employee accused of finding the phone and posting the images to the Internet. A Washington County Circuit judge granted the motion by McDonald’s, which alleged that Hess was the cause of any damages the Sherman’s suffered.

If you or a loved one has been harmed due to someone else’s negligence, please contact Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter.

A New Orleans judge who gained national prominence handling Vioxx litigation is now moving forward with numerous cases involving Chinese Drywall used in homes throughout the southeast including Lakewood Ranch. Estimates in Florida are that nearly 400 homes have the drywall from China that can emit a foul-smelling sulfur compound that is making people sick. (read more).

Despite the fact that the majority of cases are being filed in Florida, the Louisiana judge was chosen due to his experience and respect from both plaintiffs and defendants. The first trials will begin within six months and will likely involve property claims. Personal injury claims are expected to begin in about a year.

If you or a loved one has been injured due to someone else’s negligence, please contact Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter.

Due to a restaurants location in a high traffic crime area, a rape victim has filed a civil lawsuit against a St. Petersburg restaurant. Last August three armed men stole money and raped an employee at Table restaurant on Central Avenue in downtown St. Petersburg. The woman who was sexually assaulted during the commission of that crime has filed suit against the restaurant owners. (read more)

The suit claims the restaurants location in a high crime area and the lack of proper security contributed to the sexual assault while the victim was working in the restaurant. Three men have been charged in the attack and have been charged with other robberies and rapes.

If you or a loved one has been injured at work due to someone else’s negligence, please contact Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at www.fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter.

A suit was filed in Orange County Court this week by a man alleging he was served a bowl of French onion soup with a condom rather than melted cheese. The suit was filed against Claim Jumper’s restaurant and the claim is the man may have contracted a disease by virtue of the used condom in his soup. (read more)

The attorney for the plaintiff wants to have restaurant employees DNA tested to see if they can match the condom to one of the restaurant workers. Claim Jumpers said no one can prove the condom taken from the restaurant is the item submitted to the lab for testing. The restaurant also claims it has conducted its own internal probe and found no employee wrongdoind.

If you or a loved one has been injured by the negligence of another, please contact Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter.

A teenager who was shot by an Orlando police officer has notified the city through his attorney that he intends to sue. The teen, who name has not been released due to his age, was a passenger in a car that members of a tactical squad tried to stop. The teen allegedly fled the scene and was shot while climbing a fence. (read more)

According to attorney Jerry Girley the traffic stop was an attempt to “affect an unlawful arrest”. The Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office did not pursue formal charges against the teen who was arrested for resisting police without violence and violating probation on a burglary charge. The police claimed there was a gun found but there was no mention of the gun in the police report nor was there any mention of the shooting.

If you or a loved one has been injured by the negligence of another, please contact Personal Injury Attorney Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter.

The family of an elderly patient of a Winter Park dentist has filed a personal injury lawsuit against Dr. Wesley Myers. The suit claims negligence on the part of the dentist for dropping dental tools down the man’s throat on two separate occasions. (read more)

The lawsuit claims Dr. Wesley dropped a mini-wrench and an implant screwdriver tool down the throat of Charles Gaal, Jr. in 2006 and 2007. The negligence required surgeries that Gaal never recovered from before passing away in 2007. Meyers was fined $17,000 by the state following the incident.

If you or a loved one has been injured by the negligence of another, please contact Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter.

The starting placekicker for the University of South Florida Bulls was injured Saturday when he fell 35-feet from Busch Garden’s Skyride. The 20-year old football player was working at the Tampa amusement park according to team officials. Maikon Bonani is from Lake Wales was listed in fair condition at St. Joseph’s Hospital. (read more)

The Polk County resident is originally from Brazil and was expected to be the starting kicker for the Bulls as a sophomore this fall. Busch Garden’s confirmed an employee was injured at the park but did not release a name. The accident, which occurred around 3:00 p.m. happened after Bonani was worried about the security of a gondola door that just left the station. He held on to the door to check it and was holding on for about 50 feet as the gondola left the station before falling.

If you or a loved one has been injured on the job, please contact Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter. You can also email Darren right here.

A man, his fiancé and their infant were browsing around the garden center in a St. Augustine Wal-Mart when the seven-week-old dropped his bottle. Jeriel Joiner reached under some shelving to get the baby’s bottle when he felt something bite him. Turns out Joiner was struck by a seven-inch pygmy rattlesnake. Joiner nearly died undergoing the first medical treatment following the bite and has decided against a second procedure because it may kill him even though the alternative is possibly having his arm amputated. (read more)

Joiner said that Wal-Mart officials and employees in the store on the day he was bite have done nothing to help him. The couple had to call for help on their own cell phone from the Wal-Mart and the only employee who came to their aid was an elderly greeter. With medical bills mounting for the uninsured Joiner, the couple have hired a personal injury attorney and plan to sue the retailer.

If you or a loved one has been injured and want to file a personal injury claim here in the state of Florida, please contact Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter. Also you can reach Darren via email.

A week after the mother of the monorail driver that was killed in a crash at Disney World filed a motion for an emergency hearing; a report today is placing the blame for the accident on a worker in the monorail maintenance bay. (read more) Christine Wuennenberg filed her petition in State Circuit Court in Orlando on July ninth. The filing paves the way for the mother of Austin Wuennenberg to file a wrongful death claim against the world famous theme park.

On Wednesday details have been released in the Orlando Sentinel about the chain of events that led to the fatal crash. The report states that the cause of the crash was human error and there has been no evidence of a mechanical malfunction but that is not the only reason behind the fatal accident according to anonymous sources. The crash occurred at a time when the manager was coordinating the trains off-site via radio. According to the paper, Disney World policy did not require the manager to coordinate the trains at the console. They have since changed that policy said the source.

If you or a loved one has been injured and want to file a personal injury claim here in the state of Florida, please contact Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter.

Fearful that Disney may destroy, erase or alter evidence in her son’s death, the mother of the monorail driver that was killed in a crash at the Orlando theme park has filed a motion for an emergency hearing. Christine Wuennenberg filed her petition in State Circuit Court in Orlando on July ninth. (read more)

The filing paves the way for the mother of Austin Wuennenberg to file a wrongful death claim against the world famous theme park. The filing asked the judge to not only grant an emergency hearing but also allow her access to evidence. Included in that request are video surveillance tapes, audio communications and information contained in a “black-box” type of device.

If you or a loved one has been injured and want to file a personal injury claim here in the state of Florida, please contact Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter.

A recent train crash at the famed Orlando theme park Walt Disney World left a monorail driver dead but in Washington D.C. last month a deadly commuter train crash left nine dead and 80 injured. Five personal injury lawsuits have now been filed with one plaintiff seeking as much as $25 million in damages. If negligence is provided and punitive damages awarded, there could be $100’s of millions eventually awarded. (read more)

Analysts believe settling all the claims that will be filed could possible take as long as a decade. Metro agency officials believe their insurance will cover most of the costs of the lawsuits once they have met their $5 million deductible.

If you or a loved one has been injured and want to file a personal injury claim here is the state of Florida, please contact Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter.

An alcohol-fueled brawl in a McDonald’s parking lot almost four years ago cost Anthony Makowski his life. The man who killed him in the fight was never charged but a civil jury decided last month that the owner of the McDonalds and the shopping mall where it is located should pay Anthony’s parents $1 million for pain and suffering but the family will not see that money anytime soon as Circuit Judge Susan Gardner granted the defendants a new trial on Friday. (read more)

The parents sued over the issue of lack of security at the all-night drive thru that attracted late-night partiers but the judge ruled that she erred in not allowing the other party involved in the fight to be listed as a responsible party leaving only the McDonald’s and the mall as parties responsible. Gardner also said that the totality of the evidence in the trial supported the defendants.

If you or a loved one has been injured and want to file a personal injury claim, please contact Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter.

President Barack Obama recently gave a speech to the American Medical Association (AMA) and in it he held out the possibility of reforming medical malpractice law. As the President of The United States of America continues to explore ways to reform the health care system in America, capping jury awards in medical malpractice cases is thought to be one possible way to help stem costs. (read more)

Caps are often set between $250,000 and $500,000 and there are many different ways that other countries handle their medical malpractice cases. In France juries do not decide these cases rather specialized commissions rule on malpractice. In Canada medical malpractice represented about the same amount of the cost as it did in America but Canada does do a better job of deterring it.

If you or a loved one has been injured and want to file a personal injury claim, please contact Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter

New York has been on the forefront of awarding undocumented workers personal injury awards for accidents that take place at work. One case has now intertwined a personal injury lawsuit and immigration proceedings as an immigrant from Kosovo is claiming political asylum. (READ MORE)

The State Supreme Court settled the debate over whether undocumented workers could sue for future lost wages in 2006 but this case is the first where political asylum was brought into the equation. The defense is arguing in this particular case that the worker cannot sue for future wages if his political asylum is denied and he is sent back to Kosovo. The judge eventually instructed the jury that future earnings could be applied and that the defense was to make no mention of the plaintiff working in this country illegally.

If you or a loved one has been injured on the job and want to file a personal injury claim, please contact Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter.

Scott Skirpan, a former Marine, settled his personal injury lawsuit midtrial as he reached a settlement for $16.5 million. The award was one of the largest in Pennsylvania history for a single plaintiff in a personal injury case. Skirpan lost both his legs when they were crushed by a bulldozer at a landfill. (READ MORE)

In May of 2006 the cement finisher was just five days into his job as a truck spotter when a massive track loader backed around a pile of garbage and ran him over. Witness say Skirpan is just lucky to be alive. He was in cardiac arrest when he arrived at the hospital and doctors told his wife he probably would not survive.

If you or a loved one has been injured on the job, please contact Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter.

Before Delyla Pierson-Winburn reported to jail to serve a DUI sentence, she called ahead to check if she would be able to bring her prescribed anti-anxiety medication with her. The judge in the case and her doctor both wrote notes approving her use of the medication but due to a communication breakdown she was without her pills and three days later she was being carted out of jail and into an ambulance after she lost consciousness. She has now filed a personal injury law suit versus the county, the Sheriff's Office and Correctional Health Services. (READ MORE)

The judge who sentenced Pierson-Winburn wrote a note allowing the woman to bring her medication to jail and the nurse at the jail agreed with the judge and Pierson-Winburn’s physician but that was not adequately communicated to jail detention officers. At the end of her three-day sentence the only thing Pierson-Winburn remembers is being in a holding cell and then waking up in an ambulance.

If you or a loved one has been injured due to someone else’s negligence, please contact Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter.

Mega-retailer Home Depot was slapped with a $1.5 million verdict from a Cobb County jury on Tuesday. The home improvement store was sued by a man and his wife after he was injured when a pallet of wood fell off a forklift from 24 feet in the air. The wood hit a barricade and knocked over Reese causing severe neck injuries that required surgery. (read more)

Reese ran up a $120,000 medical bill while being treated for the injuries suffered inside Home Depot. The couple reached an agreement with Home Depot on punitive damages but the trial went to the jury over personal injury damages where the award was handed down.

If you or a loved one have been injured due to someone else’s negligence, please contact Darren Finebloom at 1-800-FIGHT-IT or online at fightyourinjury.com to discuss the matter.