A new year of delivering timely communication and compensation to our personal injury clients. A new year means new opportunities to move our firm forward and find new ways to deliver the best service possible to our personal injury clients. We have a lot of exciting improvements we are working on this year to help […]
Safe Driving Tips for the Rainy Season
Now that the rainy season is officially here, make sure you’re being careful on the roads and stay safe. AAA says wet weather contributes to nearly 1.2 million traffic crashes each year. Since we get a lot of rain here in Florida, during this time of year it increases your risk of being in an […]
New Texting While Driving Law
Last month Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill passed by the legislature this year to crack down on texting while driving. Starting July 1, police will be allowed to stop and ticket drivers for texting. There are a few exceptions (which might make enforcement a bit tricky) and drivers will still be able to […]
Update on House Bill to Ban Red-light Cameras
As reported by the Florida Sun Sentinel, after an emotional 90 minute debate on Wednesday, the House Appropriations Committee voted 12-9 to send HB 4087 to the full House. The bill would repeal the law enacted just last year that allows municipalities to use red-light cameras to issue tickets to motorists for running red-lights. Some […]
Progressive to Offer Monitors to Evaluate Drivers
Progressive is launching a program to monitor its customers’ driving habits with a tiny computer device, in exchange for possible premium discounts. Progressive will provide the customer with a device that plugs into the diagnostic port of a vehicle which will collect data about the driving habits of the customer for 30 days. The device […]
Did You Know it’s Drowsy Driving Prevention Week?
The National Sleep Foundation has launched a public awareness campaign to educate drivers about how lack of sleep effects road safety. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety released a new study which demonstrates that driving while drowsy is a bigger problem than previously thought. The study showed that drowsy driving results in one in six […]
Beach Driving Proves Dangerous to Children and Families
Is beach driving worth the danger? Growing up in Orlando, a drive on the beach was a fond memory of our family trips to Daytona Beach, Florida. It was the reason you drove to Daytona. These days, however, the risk to pedestrians, especially children, is just too great to justify driving on the beach. As […]
Guardrails Reduce Traffic Fatalities
Yesterday’s Orlando Sentinel reported that five years after guardrails were installed in the median of Florida’s Turnpike, fatal accidents and deaths from automobile crashes on the turnpike have been reduced by more than half. Although urban areas have had guardrails along the turnpike for years, many rural areas, including Osceola County, did not have them. […]
“Click it or Ticket” Starts Today
Today is the start of Florida’s “Click it or Ticket” program that runs from March 1st through March 15th. For the next two weeks, Florida law enforcement officers will be aggressively ticketing motorists who are not wearing their seatbelts. Obviously, seatbelts save lives and help prevent injuries in all types of trucking and motor vehicle […]
