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		<title>Nursing home arbitration agreements apply to wrongful death claims, says Florida Supreme Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Loper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In February, Florida’s Supreme Court ruled on a closely watched case concerning whether a nursing home resident’s heirs are bound by agreements signed by that resident on moving into the facility.    Clauses that stipulate that any legal disagreements will be settled by arbitration instead of through the court system are becoming a staple of contracts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surgeon Operates On Wrong Side Of Brain, Devastating Patient</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Loper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Never Event Blog]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A patient receiving treatment for their injuries or illness may require surgery. These procedures put that patient&#8217;s body under a great deal of strain and can result in some serious complications. However, these surgeries may go wrong because of the negligence of the doctors or nurses assigned to the surgery. This can be due to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US officials recommend lowering drunken driving threshold to .05 blood alcohol to save lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 20:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Loper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a wide variety of things a person should never do when intoxicated. At the top of the list is driving. Drunk driving can cause a considerable amount of harm, as such conduct can result in serious motor vehicle accidents  occurring   A decade-old benchmark for determining when a driver is legally drunk should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surgical robot scrutinized by FDA after deaths and other surgical errors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 18:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Loper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Florida residents may not be aware that when people undergo medical operations in this day and age, someone other than a licensed surgeon might be involved in the procedure. We are talking about robots. A robot called da Vinci was used in almost 400,000 surgeries in 2012 alone, which was three times as many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lindsay Tygart Appointed to Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; April 23, 2013:  Attorney Lindsay Tygart has been appointed to the Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors. Only 17 young lawyers are appointed to the Board out of the entire state of Florida. She will serve on the Board for 1-year. The Young Lawyers Division of The Florida Bar has over 21,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Malpractice payouts amount to less than 1% of health care costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 18:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Loper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Injury Attorney Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As many Florida  residents are well aware, efforts have been underway in our state and others to limit the rights of those who are harmed by medical malpractice. Many lawmakers tout reforming the medical malpractice system as a way for states to get health care expenses under control, but a new study out of Johns Hopkins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I-295 Crash Highlights Dangers And Need For Drivers To Stay Alert</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 13:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Loper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Car and Truck Accidents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Injury Attorney Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[May 7, 2013: A recent  collision illustrates the need for drivers on fast-moving interstates to give plenty of room between cars and drive at appropriate speeds.  The Florida Highway Patrol said the crash happened just after 7 p.m. on the I-295 west beltway at mile marker 1 just before the Interstate 95 interchange.  According to an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improper lane change on I-95 causes fatal accident</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Loper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Car and Truck Accidents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Injury Attorney Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An improper lane change is generally considered to be the act of a motorist that moves from their existing lane on a roadway into another lane without indicating or signaling that they are about to change lanes &#8211; thereby endangering other motorists in the process.  In most instances, the at-fault driver also does not look for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toyota, Nissan and Honda are recalling massive amounts of vehicles for defective airbags</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Loper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Injury Attorney Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone in North Florida  who drives a Toyota, Nissan or Honda that was made after 1999 may want to check to see if their vehicles are up for recall after a manufacturer of airbags recently announced a problem. If they are not fixed, the defective automobiles pose a serious risk to the front-seat passenger in the event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massive Honda/Nissan recall for brake system defect</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Loper</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Car and Truck Accidents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Injury Attorney Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Honda says it will recall about 204,000 of its most recent models because the automatic transmission can be shifted out of Park if the brake pedal is not depressed. In a report posted Friday on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Web site, Honda said the problem affected 17,500 Acura RDXs from the 2013 model [...]]]></description>
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