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• MRSA Diagnosis & Treatment Delayed

  Bob Carroll | September 24, 2005 5:29 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Reuters Health reports that MRSA infections which are spreading in hospitals are not being recognized or treated as promptly as it should."NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Even with early therapy, infection-related mortality from nosocomial bacteremic Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia (NBSAP) is high, according to a report in the September issue of Chest. [Nosocomial is a fancy word for "acquired in...

• FDA’s Oversight of Post-Marketing Studies Inadequate

  C. Todd Alley | November 10, 2009 11:05 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a new report about the FDA’s lack of post-marketing oversight in a number of the drugs which it conditionally approved. The FDA...

• Hillsborough County to Get Red Light Cameras at Major Intersections

  Joe Saunders | January 17, 2008 8:08 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  The Hillsborough County Commission voted unanimously last evening to obtaining cameras at major intersections throughout the county. Advocates of the red light cameras say that the cameras save lives and deter would be red-light runners. The statistics show there's a problem in Tampa Bay with motorists running red lights. Hillsborough County Sheriff's issued 3,784 red light citations last...

• Deadline for Chinese Drywall Class Action Lawsuit

  Joe Saunders | November 16, 2009 10:08 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Now that one of the major manufacturers of the contaminated Chinese drywall has agreed to accept service of a class action lawsuit, the time to act is now. If your home has been contaminated by...

• Rear-end Collision Not Always Fault Of Just One Driver

  Bob Carroll | January 03, 2006 5:42 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A Floride appellate court opinion has again reminded us that sometimes the lead vehicle in a rear-end collision can bear some, even most, of the legal responsibility. It appears from the opinion that a jury actually determined the lead driver was more at fault than the rear driver. Because of the doctrine of comparative negligence that jury decision would significantly reduce the damages...

• Chinese Drywall Defendant Agrees to Accept Service of Class Action Lawsuit

  Joe Saunders | November 04, 2009 11:51 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Chinese drywall defendant Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co. Ltd. has agreed to accept service of process concerning a Chinese drywall class action lawsuit in which Knauf is being sued for manufacturing...

• Emotional Distress - Florida's Impact Rule

  Bob Carroll | March 12, 2006 7:42 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  There are times when someone's negligent act can cause significant emotional distress to another even though the distressed person has not, himself, been physically injured. The tragedy of watching your young child being injured by a car carelessly backed onto a sidewalk comes to mind. Should our system of justice permit a claim for compensation in these situations? From the Benjo Blog we have...

• A Christmas Eve Suicide In The Pinellas County Jail

  Bob Carroll | December 28, 2005 5:08 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Should this suicide have been prevented? Juvenal Hernandez Flores, 28, of 2903 Forestbrook Drive, Charlotte, N.C., was booked into the Pinellas County Jail on Thursday. He was being held on charges of failing to appear in court and driving without a driver's license. A Sheriff's Office report notes Flores made suicidal statements while he was being booked. It appears he was recognized as a...

• You Can ASK GARY...Or, You Could ASK KOBY, ASK JERY Or Even ASK DAVE

  Bob Carroll | January 18, 2006 6:24 AM | 1 CommentTampa Bay, FL

  Three years of television commercials throughout Tampa Bay telling us to call ASK GART when we are injured have spawned some copycats. Suddenly, there are commercials reminding us that we should ASK-KOBY or ASK-JERY or even ASK-DAVE. So, who's a person to ASK?GARY thinks all this ASKing is confusing to injured people so he has gone to court to block KOBY and JERY. The Tampa Tribune carries...

• Coumadin And The Risk Of A Brain Bleed

  Bob Carroll | January 10, 2007 6:21 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Blood thinning, anticoagulant warfarin (Coumadin) carries risk of a brain hemorrhage. This is a risk of its use that is not always being considered by the prescribing doctor. Brain Bleeds From Blood Thinner on the RiseThe rate of bleeding in the brain associated with use of the anticoagulant drug warfarin quintupled during the 1990s, University of Cincinnati researchers reported...