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• Local Mental Health Facility Shut Down Due to Bed Bugs

  Joe Saunders | July 07, 2008 11:37 AM | 2 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  PEMHS, a local St. Petersburg mental health facility, has been temporarily shut down due to an infestation of bed bugs. State and local agencies are monitoring the clean-up and removal of the bed...

• Two Florida Legal Bloggers Doing Lunch At Wendy's

  Bob Carroll | October 10, 2006 5:49 PM | 2 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  I missed lunch today because I was working on some of my cases. Nobody seemed to care, and nobody probably should. But, I am a legal blogger in the InjuryBoard network of bloggers nationwide. Last month, I even won an award for being the most active blogger in the network. I suppose that may make me a prominent legal blogger. In light of the recent post at Above The Law I will be calling my...

• Terry Bradshaw Was Right About Riding The Motorcycle, Ben

  Bob Carroll | June 12, 2006 5:21 PM | 2 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  If you are Ben Roethlisberger, who quarterbacked the Steelers to a Super Bowl win, you might like to ride a motorcycle. You might even like to ride it without a helmet. But, the man who quarterbacked the Steelers to four Super Bowl wins, Terry Bradshaw, said Ben should wait until he retires. After a motorcycle crash this week that took Ben to surgery, Terry is looking pretty smart. Why does...

• An "Unnamed Associate" Who Defends Trial Lawyers Slandered By Outrageous Billboards

  Bob Carroll | April 06, 2006 5:32 PM | 2 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  The Unnamed Associate has a post at Legal Underground that caught my eye. She starts off saying "I'm going to complain about people complaining about lawyers." To which I respond, "You go, girl!"...there's a giant billboard depicting a man in a suit with wads of cash stuffed into his mouth. The caption reads, "Please don't feed the trial lawyers," and the billboard is sponsored by the...

• Cardiac Death At Gym Without Defibrillator

  Bob Carroll | April 01, 2006 6:33 AM | 2 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  As a result of some recent litigation our health clubs, gyms and other exercise facilities may be safer. Among the treadmills and weights there may be a defibrillator. Why a defibrillator? Because it can save a life. Because gyms now know it should be part of their safety equipment and service.Overlawyered feels gyms do not need defibrillators:Gym didn't have defibrillator...so a Florida...

• Long Shadow Inn Fails Its Residents

  Bob Carroll | February 10, 2006 5:27 AM | 2 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  My father lived for more than four years at the end of his life at an assisted living facility in Palm Harbor. He received excellent and compassionate services in a setting that was safe and properly supervised. That same facility has now been shut down by state officials because of health and safety violations. What could have caused the changes at the Long Shadow Inn in the years since my...

• Message To Employers - Don't Allow Drunks To Drive Company Trucks

  Bob Carroll | January 16, 2006 8:35 AM | 2 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  One case at a time jurors are telling employers that permitting drunk employees to drive company vehicles is wrong, wrong, wrong. The Las Vegas Review-Journal posts the story of the latest verdict/message:TERRIBLE HERBST: Family awarded $14.1 million - Woman, 58, died when hit by drunken driver in 2001Rosa Delegado was trying to get into her car on the side of a public street when Darwin Ray...

• Walgreens Own Numbers Show Workloads Exceed Patient Safety Threshold

  Bob Carroll | October 09, 2005 9:44 PM | 2 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Tthe National Pharmacists Association released a report that may explain why so many prescription errors are occurring. The title of the report: Pharmacists routinely pushed beyond what they consider safe for patients. The risk of error rises along with the number of prescriptions filled per hour. This summer the National Pharmacists Association released a report that may explain why so many...

• National Television Ads To Highlight Costs Of Frivolous Lawsuits - A Frivolous Ad Campaign?

  Bob Carroll | October 05, 2005 8:34 AM | 2 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A National Television Advertising Campaign to Highlight the Costs of Frivolous Lawsuits on Our Healthcare System. What are frivolous lawsuits and outrageous jury awards? They do not exist. The only thing that can properly called outrageous would be the unfair and unfounded criticism of a jury verdict. The press release from SickofLawsuits.org trumpets it is launching a National Television...

• Riptide Drownings At City Beach

  Bob Carroll | September 21, 2005 3:50 AM | 2 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that a city’s public swimming area creates a duty to warn the public of certain dangerous conditions.The Court determined that a jury, under these circumstances, should be permitted to decide whether the city knew or should have known of the riptide at the city beach and whether it breached its duty of care by not warning of the danger it created.The...