by Ryan Banfill, FJA Communications Director The Florida Senate Banking and Insurance Committee this week pumped the brakes on legislation (SB 312) creating prohibitions on auto safety glass customer solicitation. The proposal hit the bill in the form of an amendment filed with items on insurance companies’ wish list including curbs on attorneys’ fees and…
By Alyssa Davenport, FJA’s Communications Coordinator Someone has been leaving e-scooters all over Florida’s cities. The recent emergence of a new technology may be revolutionizing short-distance transportation. Instead of walking, biking, ride-hailing, or driving to your destinations, you can now scoot. E-scooters have been most commonly spotted and utilized in larger metropolitan areas, including but…
by Alyssa Davenport, FJA Communications Coordinator There’s a problem on Florida’s roads. In 2018, according to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (HSMV), there were 1,671 citations given by law enforcement for distracted driving. In 2015, 3,242 people died in 885,000 distraction-related crashes. Among those crashes, 69,000 were tied to cell phone use,…
In Case You Missed It: News Clips from the Week Originally published in the FJA Reading File newsletter on 1/25/19. How Conservative is Big Insurance Push for State Government Control of Attorneys’ Fees? When President Richard Nixon enacted wage and price controls in the early 1970s, iconic conservative economist Milton Friedman cautioned that the policy would spur inflation despite…
With legislation passing the Florida House and sailing through its first committee in the Florida Senate, the first week of the 2018 Legislative Session has been a watershed week for supporters of passing mandatory bodily injury legislation in Florida. FJA has been one of those long-time supporters of having Florida join the other 48 states…
by FJA EAGLE & Young Lawyer Member Ian Kirtman If you represent a client injured when a vehicle crashed into a building or drove errantly onto a sidewalk, the most apparent case to evaluate is against the responsible driver. But with Florida drivers habitually underinsured and statewide storefronts routinely kept unsafe, the most effective way…
After a five-week trial, a Rhode Island jury found Twin River Casino, Royal Liquors liquor store, and an 18-year-old drunk driver liable in a dram shop case where the driver crashed, his teenage girlfriend (and mother of their child) was paralyzed from the waist down, and her friend was ejected from the vehicle. The paralyzed…
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