Two teenagers will receive $4 million from the State of Florida due to “horrific” abuse they suffered while in foster care in a Hernando County home. The children were straved and abused by their foster parents who are serving 25 years in prison on a 2006 conviction. (read more)
The Department of Children & Families agreed to pay John Edwards, Jr. $700,000 into a trust fund and his 15-year-old half sister $3.28 million. The girl, who was 10-years-old at the time, weighed just 29 pounds when she was removed from the home. She was kept in a locked room with only a bucket for a bathroom. An agency panel said child welfare workers missed or ignored the signs of abuse.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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.
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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.
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A Florida judge ruled on Monday that Martin Memorial Medical Center in Stuart, Florida could be hit with punitive damages if a jury finds the hospital falsely imprisoned an illegal immigrant from Guatemala. Attorney’s representing Luis Jimenez and his Indiantown guardian, Montejo Gaspar Montejo argued there was a sufficient factual basis for the lawyers to claim for punitive damages and the judge agreed. (read more)
The hospital is being sued related to their decision to deport Jimenez following two years of medical care for a brain injury. The hospital stay cost Martin Memorial approximately $1.5 million. It is expected that well over 200 potential jurors will be questioned when the trial begins on Monday.
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A mini-train derailment at the Louisville Zoo left 22 patrons injured and has led to a personal injury lawsuit. The train, which was being operated by an 18-year old employee, was said to be traveling swiftly around a curve behind the zoo’s Gorilla Forest exhibit when it derailed and flipped onto its side (read more). Seventeen of the injured train passengers were children who were taken to local hospitals where they were treated. The five adults on the train were rushed to an area hospital as well.
Lawyers representing some of the injured parties claim the train was travelling at an abnormally fast speed especially since it was transporting children. According to zoo officials, the 18-year old, train driver started her training the day before the serious zoo accident. Lawyers for the first family to file suit asked for monetary damages and a restraining order to stop the zoo from altering the scene.
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