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My partner, Bob Grode, and I just lectured at a seminar about how to deal with "Rambo" litigators. The seminar was geared to attorneys for the purpose of counteracting the unethical and...

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Last night, the Florida House approved the deal between FDOT and CSX regarding commuter and freight rail - and including a waiver of liability for CSX for accidental injuries and deaths that occur...

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The FDA is telling consumers not to use Total Body Formula in Tropical Orange and Peach Nectar, or Total Body Mega Formula in the Orange/Tangerine flavor because the dietary supplement can cause adverse reactions such as hair loss, muscle cramps, diarrhea, joint pain and fatigue. The Total Body Formula products come in eight-ounce and 32-ounce plastic bottles and has been voluntarily recalled...

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For the second time this year, a hit-and-run driver has claimed the life of a wheelchair-bound man crossing a street. Macelin Azor, 64, was crossing the intersection of West Main Street and North Rome Avenue in Tampa when a pickup truck ran a red light and killed Azor.The vehicle was an older model, dark brown Ford pickup truck with a tan stripe down its side. Police are still searching for the...

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The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has filed an administrative complaint seeking to suspend Allstate's authority to write policies in Florida. This is the latest salvo in the battle between regulators and Allstate over Allstate's refusal to turn over documents or give straight answers to its request to increase rates as much as 41%.The regulators previously suspended Allstate's authority...

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The hurricanes of 2004 devastated tens of thousands of homeowners and their families in central Florida. But for many, the shoddy treatment and lack of professionalism shown by insurance adjusters was worse than the storms themselves. Unfortunately, far too many insurance adjusters forget that Florida law imposes ethical obligations on them when dealing with policy holders with insurance...

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For the fifth time in six years, the intersection of U.S. 17 and Havendale Blvd. in Winter Haven is the most dangerous one in Polk County, Florida, according to 2006 figures recently released.There were 58 collisions at the intersection that year, an increase of eight from the year before. As anyone who has driven through the intersection can attest, it is large, heavily congested, and has an...

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The State of Florida has suspended Allstate's license after the insurer refused to hand over documents subpoenaed by state insurance regulators. The documents had been requested after Allstate requested rate increases as high as 41%.The suspension follows a heated hearing earlier this week between Allstate and the regulators. What was supposed to be a two-day hearing before Florida insurance...

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Almost 20 hours before the deadly I-4 pileup that killed five and injured dozens, the Florida Highway Patrol and the Florida Department of Transportation had been warned of dangerous conditions of fog and smoke, yet the state agencies took virtually no action to avert the disaster.The day before the accident, the National Weather Service issued a fog alert that placed the risk at 10 on a scale...

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Publix Supermarkets announced this week that the Lakeland-based grocery chain had settled a consumer lawsuit over problems relating to the content of the chemical benzene in the company's private label soda pop. Consumer groups had brought the suit, alleging that ingredients in Publix diet lemon-lime soda compound to form trace amounts of benzene once the beverage has heated during shipping. ...

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