After her husband suffered a fall within his first week at a nursing home, a Sarasota resident took to the internet to find a new place that could keep him safe. Her search led her to the Medicare website, which provides information on 16,000 nursing homes across the nation, including a star-rating system in which …
How to Find a Personal Injury Lawyer
If you were harmed or injured because of another party’s intentional or negligent actions, you face many decisions in the wake of your injury. Hiring a personal injury lawyer to represent you is one of the most critical decisions you need to make if you choose to file a personal injury claim. A competent and …
Dealing with the Fallout from getting a Wrong Prescription
In 2019, 4.38 billion prescriptions were filled in the US by pharmacies, healthcare providers, and nursing homes. Considering the population of the US is only around 330 million, this may point to an unrelated issue of overprescribing, but what this statistic does make clear is that there is plenty of room for error in prescription …
Five Things to Do After a Truck Rollover Accident
When a passenger vehicle rolls over, the resulting accident often causes substantial damage to the vehicle and its occupants. When a big truck rolls over, the resulting accident can not only damage the truck itself, but also everything in its path. While many vehicle rollover accidents involve only a single vehicle, when a truck rolls …
Who Can File a Wrongful Death Lawsuit?
Losing a loved one leaves a gaping hole in both your life and, in many cases, your finances. Do you have the right to file a wrongful death lawsuit? A wrongful death suit can provide financial compensation for the loss of your loved one, offering coverage for bills accumulated as a result of that loss …
What to Do if You Are Hit by a Car as a Pedestrian
Four Important Steps to Take Across the United States, almost 6,000 pedestrians die after behind hit by a vehicle each year. More than 129,000 visit emergency facilities for treatment following these accidents. You might assume that sidewalks and crosswalks provide a reasonable buffer of safety for pedestrians in your city, but in reality, pedestrians face …
Types of Injuries for Which You Might Recover Compensation
Every day, in Florida and across the country, accidents and unforeseen events injure people. Injuries can stem from vehicle accidents while someone is walking, biking, or driving a car, motorcycle, or truck. Injuries can occur while they’re navigating a boat in Florida’s rivers or the ocean. Injuries can occur from an exploding product, such as …
Unexpected Ways Social Media Can Negatively Affect Us
From Damaging Our Psyche to Damaging a Personal Injury Case, Social Media Can Have Some Serious Downfalls We are almost all guilty of it by now: using social media in a near obsessive way. And as we have all probably known, or at least had a feeling, it turns out that social media could have …
Companies Releasing Sharable Electric Scooters into Cities
The Rise of Electric Scooters and How They are Creating Real Safety Concerns It’s hard to spend time in a major city now without seeing someone ride past on an electric scooter. This new form of shared transportation is more environmentally friendly option to cars. It is also a more stress-free option compared to driving, …