A seemingly mundane trip to the grocery store or a tiring commute home after a long day’s work can quickly turn into a driver’s worst nightmare. About 400,000 car accident victims discover this annually in Florida with many suffering severe and permanent injuries. As a personal injury law firm with…
A family has lost their 13-year-old son after he hit a metal cable in a “freak accident” while riding his e-bike through the neighborhood, according to local media. Emiliano Munoz, of Everett, Washington, was playing with friends at a neighborhood field on May 2. As he left on his e-bike,…
A woman canoeing with her husband this week has died after their vessel flipped on top of an 11-foot alligator and the animal attacked in Kissimmee, Florida, officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said. Cynthia Diekema, of Davenport, has been identified as the woman who was killed…
More than 30 people were rescued Saturday from the waters off Miami Beach after a multi-million-dollar yacht began taking on water, according to reporting from The Miami Herald. Emergency responders were called around 5 p.m. near Monument Island, and 32 people were rescued, according to a news release from the…
Leesfield & Partners, a Miami personal injury law firm, filed a lawsuit Friday on behalf of a woman who was left as an incomplete quadriplegic following a Lake County tractor-trailer crash involving a Florida Highway Patrolman. On Feb. 22, 2025, our client was traveling with her family to Orlando, Florida,…
A ferry with about 45 people on board was ushering families to and from a sand sculpting competition in Clearwater, Florida, on Sunday when it was involved in a terrible hit-and-run crash. The incident happened around 8:40 p.m. near the Clearwater memorial Causeway Bridge. Another boat came barreling toward the…
Five people have been hospitalized, including three children, after a boat collided with a docked vessel Saturday night in North Miami Beach. The incident happened before 8 p.m. near Maule Lake and was caught on surveillance footage, according to reporting from Channel 10 News. A boat operator with seven passengers…
A 71-year-old golf cart driver died following a crash at a senior living community in which another driver took the red light, according to officials with the Florida Highway Patrol. The woman died from her injuries around 8 a.m. Wednesday near Sun City Center, a 55+ community with chains in…
A bus driver accused in the shooting deaths of two passengers following an argument should never have had a gun on board the day of the incident, officials say. “Transit operators are not allowed to be armed,” Juan Mendieta, a spokesperson for Miami-Dade’s Department of Transportation and Public Works, told…
A 72-year-old from Rhode Island has been accused of sexually abusing a child in a lazy river at an Orlando, Florida, resort, according to reporting from the Miami Herald. William Francis Chatel faces charges of lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim under 12 years of age. The first incident…