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Interesting Articles related to Accident Law in Florida

The first article describes the process that experienced Palm Beach car accident lawyers like Scott B. Smith take to serve a defendant in a case where the defendant simply cannot be found. The State of Florida requires that the defendant must be served within 120 days after the filing of the initial pleading. But if the defendant still cannot be located after every possible effort has been made to find them, the Florida Secretary of State has a procedure which will allow for a "substituted service". There are strict guidelines to follow but basically the procedure allows a case to go forward where the defendant may have become a nonresident or possibly is concealing their whereabouts.

A. Service of Process: Gaining Substitute Service on the Operator or Owner of a Motor Vehicle

The second article is about accidents that involve a car colliding with the rear of a tractor-trailer or actually crashing underneath it. In many of these cases the car driver is presumed to be negligent in causing the crash. The car driver usually had the best opportunity to see the truck and avoid contact. But there are many points to consider where the accident could actually have been precipitated by a failure on the truck operator to ensure proper lighting and safety inspections and a host of other possibilities.

B. Tractor-Trailer Underride Accident Analysis: Steering the Case to a Positive Result

C. Press Release - Jan 2009 - Florida Truck Accident Settlement

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09.08.2010

Washington Personal Injury Lawyer, Jason Epstein, Offers Safe Driving Tips for Teenagers
Seattle, Wash. September 8, 2010 Jason Epstein, Seattle personal injury and car accident attorney, recently published an article on his website, http://www.StraightTalkLaw.com, titled Top Teen Driving Tips. The article gives several effective and useful auto safety tips to help teenage drivers decrease the amount of fatal auto accidents and wrongful deaths. Jason ...

09.08.2010

Young set to rule out TV ad ban for personal injury
Lord Young will not seek to ban TV advertising for personal injury work in his review of the ‘compensation culture’, but is expected to call for a strengthening of referral fee regulations. Sources close to Lord Young of Graffham’s review, due to report this month, said he will recommend that the content of personal injury advertisements should be restricted, rather than subject to an outright ...

09.04.2010

Sacramento Personal Injury Lawyer Wins $456,745 Verdict in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
Steven H. Schultz, a Sacramento personal injury attorney with the law firm of Demas & Rosenthal, LLP, represented a client who suffered an infection from a wrongly placed feeding tube while a patient at the UC Davis Medical Center. A verdict of $456,745 was returned for the plaintiff.

09.08.2010

Injury report: Saints LB Vilma, CB Porter probable for Vikings game
Linebacker Jonathan Vilma and cornerback Tracy Porter were officially listed as probable for the Saints’ Thursday curtain raiser at the Superdome.

09.07.2010

Ton injury list starts to clear
MORTON'S injury list has started to clear after the international break allowed players some much-needed rest.