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• No Car Insurance?

  Craig Cannon | May 22, 2007 8:23 AM | 14 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  After Oct. 1, 2007 Florida car drivers will no longer be required to carry PIP (No-Fault) car insurance and possibly no insurance at all. That's the consequence of lawmakers' inaction during the regular legislative session that ended two weeks ago. Can you imagine being able to drive a car in the state of Florida without any - zero - insurance coverage. It's crazy and ridiculous. The Florida...

• Save PIP

  Craig Cannon | May 15, 2007 8:21 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The Florida Legislature adjourned last month without resolving the problem of mandatory personal injury insurance for motorists--PIP. For people injured in car crashes who do not have health insurance, PIP is the only source of money to compensate emergency rooms and doctors for the care they must provide. Florida's 35-year-old PIP statute is set to expire in October unless something is done in...

• $12 Million Slip and Fall Verdict

  Craig Cannon | May 02, 2007 3:47 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)

  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...

• Car Crash Kills Driver

  Craig Cannon | May 01, 2007 4:29 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A 19-year-old Silver Springs man died Sunday after a two-car crash. The crash occurred at the intersection of Northwest 145th Avenue Road and County Road 326. After the car crash Joshua Joseph Stacy was transported to Shands Hospital in Gainesville. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. Stacy was driving a 1990 Chevrolet Cavalier at the time of the crash. Stacy was traveling south on...