Another very disturbing opinion on Federal arbitration was handed down by the US Supreme Court this week. The US Supreme Court decided that nursing homes can put boilerplate, fine print clauses in their admission agreements. The clauses will make it impossible to get a fair jury trial regardless of how badly the nursing homes treat their…
I was consulted today by the mother of a young girl who went to the hospital Emergency room in Sarasota three times in less than a week. Each time she was sent home with little or no care. Turns out she had acute pancreatic. Within days it caused anoxic brain damages and she went into…
I am very angry about a law on the books in Florida. Florida statue 768.735 forbids a court from letting a Jury know that no matter how vile, disgusting and unacceptable the Jury finds the behavior of the Defendant to have been, that the court will after getting their Verdict chop it down if it…
Over the last few years Parents have witnessed lots of examples on TV of frightening escalations in brutal attacks on their children by other children. As texting has become more popular, a new word “cyber-bullying” has been coined. Dozens of websites devoted to the prevention of bullying have popped up. It has been clear for years that bullying…
I was asked by a client about a letter he got in the mail from Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor vehicles. DMV is the official agency in charge of driver’s licenses and driving tests. He was in a minor car accident nearly a year ago. No one was injured, and the other driver caused the…