Automobile Accidents

• Attorney Fee Provision Stalls Auto Insurance Bill

  Joe Saunders | October 05, 2007 9:14 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Republican Florida house members added amendments to the no-fault auto insurance bill that would limit the rights of consumers to pay their lawyers in lawsuits for denied claims against insurance companies. Under these new amendments persons injured in auto accidents would likely have difficulty getting a lawyer to help them make legitimate claims against their own insurance company to recover...

• Auto Insurance Bodily Injury Bill Likely Not To Be Heard

  Joe Saunders | October 04, 2007 4:04 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A Florida legislative bill by Senators Dave Aronberg and J.D. Alexander to require Florida drivers to have bodily injury liability insurance coverage for car accidents may not be heard in this legislative session. The current special session of the legislature has PIP personal injury protection insurance and property tax budgeting bills on the agenda. However, the legislative rules calling the...

• New PIP No Fault Auto Insurance Could Take Effect February 15th 2008

  Joe Saunders | October 04, 2007 10:27 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  The Florida Senate Committee is ready to vote on a new no-fault auto insurance law that would take effect on February 15 2008. The house committee is concerned about the gap period in the Florida no-fault personal injury protection insurance and are discussing changes in the auto insurance bill. Concerns have been expressed about the state's requirement that insurance companies have their rates...

• New PIP No Fault Auto Insurance Could Take Effect February 15th 2008(2)

  Joe Saunders | October 04, 2007 10:27 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  The Florida Senate Committee is ready to vote on a new no-fault auto insurance law that would take effect on February 15 2008. The house committee is concerned about the gap period in the Florida no-fault personal injury protection insurance and are discussing changes in the auto insurance bill. Concerns have been expressed about the state's requirement that insurance companies have their rates...

• Florida House and Senate Committees Debate Auto Insurance

  Joe Saunders | October 03, 2007 5:17 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  The day after the Florida Gov. Charlie Crist put auto insurance on the legislative special session agenda the house and senate committees are in sharp disagreeement over returning to a different form of no-fault auto accident liability insurance or having a pure fault based liability system. The no-fault auto insurance system that expired this week required that all drivers purchase no fault...

• No Fault Auto Insurance Included in Special Session

  Joe Saunders | October 02, 2007 5:08 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Florida Governor Charlie Crist has added consideration of Florida no-fault auto insurance to the state legislative special session. The Florida no-fault auto insurance law expired yesterday after the Florida legislature failed to renew the law last this year. Under the no-fault auto insurance law system that has been in effect in Florida for over three decades a person injured in a auto accident...

• Tampa Accident Kills Moped Driver

  Shannon Weidemann | September 30, 2007 11:29 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A 49-year-old man driving a moped on Countryway Boulevard on Tampa was killed when he was hit by a car. The sports car was being driven by a 16-year-old student from Alonso High School. The moped accident happened on Wedesday afternoon. Investigators say the accident happened at about 3:15 p.m. on Countryway Boulevard just south of Woodbay Drive in Tampa. That's near the Westchase...

• Florida Auto Insurance is Spelled PIP Confusion

  Joe Saunders | September 29, 2007 9:16 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  With personal injury protection (PIP) set to expire on October 1, 2007, the Florida Legislature is set to return to Tallahassee on Tuesday without dealing with this important issue. When PIP expires Floridians will be left with only property damage auto insurance. This insurance doesn't cover hospital bills or doctor bills if you're involved in a car accident. PIP covers up to $10,000 per...

• St. Petersburg Auto Crash Causes Death

  Joe Saunders | September 26, 2007 12:41 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  An auto passenger was killed and three people were seriously injured on interstate 275 last night by a driver going the wrong way on the interstate. The accident was caused by two criminals who were trying to escape from the police. The Saint Petersburg police were chasing the suspects on St. Petersburg city streets at 2:30 in the morning when the suspects entered the interstate going the...

• I-275 Re-Opened After Police Chase Ends in Crash

  Joe Saunders | September 26, 2007 9:13 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A St. Petersburg car crash closed south bound lanes of I-275 for hours this morning following a high speed police chase. The suspect was driving a Ford Escort the wrong way on 275 when it crashed into another vehicle, a Toyota Camry, head-on. The passenger in the Toyota Camry was taken to Bayfront Hospital and later died.