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• 3 Ways to Protect Your Most Precious Cargo – Your Child Passenger:

  Jeffrey Meldon | September 03, 2009 3:51 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  National Child Passenger Safety Week is coming up from September 12th to the 18th This annual campaign provides parents an excellent time to: review child safety seat guidelines, make sure...

• Allstate Admits it has Dirty Hands

  Jeffrey Meldon | August 16, 2008 10:02 AM | 2 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  Allstate the "good hands" people have decided to forgo hundreds of millions of dollars in profits rather than show their "dirty hands" to Floridians. Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty...

• UM Coverage, …. “Stack” it up and save!

  Jeffrey Meldon | August 10, 2009 10:26 AM | 1 CommentGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  Florida has some of the worst laws in the country when it comes to protecting the innocent person injured in a crash. As an accident attorney, it is heartbreaking for me to see legitimately injured...

• Single Car Wreck Kills Five Men in Ocala

  Jenny Albano | January 28, 2008 1:00 AM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  On Saturday, January 26, a car smashed into a tree killing five young men in Ocala.A car traveling at high speed down a private airport runway ran off an embankment and was airborne for 200 feet before smashing into a tree early Saturday, killing all five young men in the vehicle, the Florida Highway Patrol said.Investigators were unsure if the car was driving alone or if the vehicle was racing...

• Moving? Safety Tips for Do-It-Yourself Movers.

  Jeffrey Meldon | August 19, 2009 11:41 AM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  Tis the season for moving for many Floridians that are heading back to school, or are starting a new job. When loading and transporting property on trailers there are important safety concerns that...

• Texting while driving… it should be illegal in Florida!

  Jeffrey Meldon | July 31, 2009 11:57 AM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  Yet another study has been released showing that texting while driving is dangerous! I say, how many studies do we need to prove the obvious and for this dangerous activity to become illegal in...

• Medical Malpractice Caps Invading our Constitutional Rights.

  Jeffrey Meldon | July 03, 2009 7:00 AM | 2 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  Medical Malpractice Caps, are caps on non-economic damages (i.e. pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, loss of a loved one), namely, limiting of the total amount payable to the injured in...

• $12 Million Slip and Fall Verdict

  Craig Cannon | May 02, 2007 3:47 PM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  A Hampton, Virginia jury awarded a Williamsburg woman more than $12.2 million in a slip-and-fall case. In August 2003, Annette Ritzmann was walking into what was then a Miller Mart on the corner of Lafayette Street and Richmond Road to buy a newspaper and pay for gas when she slipped on a small puddle caused by a leaky awning. She landed on her chest and chin, and a witness would later say the...

• Don’t Let Them Longhorns Outshine Us – Here Is What You Can Do Today:

  Jeffrey Meldon | August 31, 2009 12:50 PM | 1 CommentGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  Austin, Texas, is the home of the University of Texas Longhorns and the Texas Legislature. In Texas, known for its rugged individualism, lawmakers have progressively passed a law restricting the...

• Driving While Using a Cell Phone Issue Becomes Reality In Our Community

  Jeffrey Meldon | September 26, 2008 5:38 PM | 1 CommentGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  On September 23, 2008, thirteen year-old Frances Schee was killed while riding the bus home from North Marion Middle School. The school bus made a routine stop on U.S. 301 when a tractor-trailer...