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On March 24, 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 837 (HB 837) into law, which will affect tortlaw and change the way this type of civil litigation is handled. This bill will change how personal injuryand property damage law firms, insurance companies and insureds handle future claims. These changeswill only affect claims and lawsuits…

HB 837 was indeed historic – it was a historic rights-grabbing bill by which the rich and powerful (see, global insurance industry and corporate elites) used the government to strip away our rights as Florida citizens and small business owners. In the course of just 37 days, the government ripped away rights that we, as…

Personal Injury: 50 Mistakes Insurance Companies Want You to Make Via Email eventmaterials@nbi-sems.com Legal Ethics Pitfalls to Avoid 4:00 – 5:00, Jeffrey R. Davis Competence – Getting in Over Your Head According to the rules regulating the Florida Bar state, a lawyer should not enter a lawyer-client relationship when the lawyer cannot provide competent and…

The Sun-Sentinel Op Ed Link to article. For years, Florida has protected the purse, not the people. Luckily, the Legislature gets a chance to fix that this session by amending the state’s sovereign immunity law. Lawmakers had a chance to do so in the last legislative session, too, and didn’t. But at least the bill…

Spoliation of evidence means you “spoiled “the evidence in a case. Evidence can be an object, product, condition, documents, materials, electronic records -basically anything needed to prove the facts of a case. Spoiling can mean destroying it, throwing it away, losing it, failing to keep it secure or safe, allowing others to tamper with it…

As an injury lawyer I receive thousands of calls every year from people involved in motor vehicle accidents. When I ask them about their own automobile insurance I usually get the same two responses: 1. Why are you asking me about my insurance, I did not cause the accident? and, 2. Don’t worry, I have…

In response to “Repealing PIP Insurance is a Bad Deal for Floridians and a Costly One Too”, the authors, both of whom are closely aligned to the insurance industry, claim that our current automobile insurance scheme in Florida is working and that to change it, and add mandatory bodily injury insurance with the repeal of…

People with atrial fibrillation or an irregular heartbeat that are not well controlled with medication often have cardiac ablations. These procedures are performed by electrophysiologists who are cardiologists that have additional training. An electrophysiologist frequently uses a catheter that is inserted in the patient’s groin and threaded up through a vein into the heart. The…

Slippery Sidewalks in Coral Gables, FL – Who is Responsible? Believe it or not, the City of Coral Gables says the adjacent homeowner is. They even have a municipal code that says so. According to the Code of the City of Coral Gables, Florida which contains the general and permanent ordinances of the City of Coral…

By Jason Garcia and Annie Martin Orlando Sentinel A Democratic lawmaker will get a second chance to force a secretive political group to reveal the donors who helped fund advertisements in a key Central Florida Senate race last year after the Orlando Sentinel identified the possible leader of the group. A judge in Miami-Dade County…