On behalf of The Davies Law Firm, LLC posted in Medical Malpractice on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
With technology inundating our daily lives, it's no wonder that the way we used to go about our lives is always changing. This is also true in the medical field. Today, most medical records and prescription ordering is done via a computer, but there are still instances where doctor's write out their prescriptions and this is where medication errors can occur and lead to medical malpractice lawsuits.
The stereotypical doctor is one with illegible handwriting and this is what can lead to adverse drug events. A professor at Weill Cornell Medical College published a study in 2010 which showed that ordering prescriptions from an online list led to fewer errors. For every 100 paper prescriptions, there were 37 errors found and only seven per 100 for prescribing software. The study didn't include legibility issues when the pharmacist couldn't read the handwriting.
On behalf of The Davies Law Firm, LLC posted in Truck Accidents on Friday, May 11, 2012
A truck accident this week in Florida left all northbound lanes of I-295 covered in grease. The highway was closed for several hours to clean up the mess.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the tanker truck driver was driving in the northbound lane of I-295 when he crashed into a Ford SUV. The truck then slammed into the concrete barrier and flipped over, spilling its contents.
On behalf of The Davies Law Firm, LLC posted in Pedestrian Accidents on Wednesday, May 2, 2012
A freak accident injured a mother waiting at a school bus stop with her son, when a car crashed into her this week in Florida. The driver, a 50-year-old woman, was ticketed for careless driving by the Florida Highway Patrol.
The accident happened Monday morning as the woman was holding her 3-year-old son at a school bus stop. While she was standing there a car came crashing into her and then crashed into a home. The woman, 32, was seriously injured, but her toddler only suffered minor injuries. The driver narrowly missed hitting the other children at the bus stop.
On behalf of The Davies Law Firm, LLC posted in Car Accidents on Friday, April 27, 2012
Most of us are in a car everyday and don't think about a car accident until we are involved in one. For one Florida family, a routine drive turned deadly when a drunk driver crashed into their minivan, killing a 13-year-old girl who was asleep in the backseat.
The accident happened in the early morning hours of Apr. 13 just after 5 a.m. The father was driving his two daughters to their mother's house so that they could get ready for school. As they were driving towards their mother's house, a Range Rover slammed into the side of their minivan, splitting it in two. At first the accident didn't seem that bad until the father looked in the backseat and saw his daughter.
On behalf of The Davies Law Firm, LLC posted in Motorcycle Accidents on Wednesday, April 18, 2012
When drivers come upon a motorcycle-led police escort, some drivers don't know or remember the rules of the road and in some instances, make the wrong decision and cause an accident. This was the case for a St. Johns County, Florida, deputy who was injured over the weekend while escorting a charity motorcycle run.
The motorcycle accident happened Saturday afternoon when officers from the St. Johns and Jacksonville police departments were escorting a charity motorcycle run. The officer involved in the accident had his emergency lights and siren on when we was heading south on Florida A1A after stopping a motorist for failing to obey the directions of another officer. After handing out a citation, the officer was driving when another car entered the roadway, and the two crashed into one another.
On behalf of The Davies Law Firm, LLC posted in Car Accidents on Wednesday, April 11, 2012
At one time or another many of us may have let our children lie down in the back seat of our car because they were tired, not realizing how dangerous this could be. For a 14-year-old Florida girl, lying down in the back seat proved fatal when the car she was in was involved in a car accident.
The accident happened in the early morning hours of Monday on State Road 415 in Sanford, Florida. A car driven by an 18-year-old boy and his 14-year-old passenger were traveling north when his car drifted into the southbound lanes and sideswiped a car. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the car then spun around and collided with a pickup truck. The pickup truck was hauling a trailer with roofing nails, which spilled all over the road. The girl in the back seat was ejected from the vehicle, as she was not wearing a seat belt. Medical personnel on the scene took the girl to Orlando Regional Medical Center where she later died. The 18-year-old driver was taken to Central Florida Regional Hospital where he is in serious condition. The other drivers involved in the accident, were not seriously injured.
On behalf of The Davies Law Firm, LLC posted in Medical Malpractice on Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Resident's of Florida are anxiously awaiting the state's high court ruling on whether Florida's caps on damages in medical malpractice cases are constitutional. The decision could impact medical malpractice cases going forward.
The court will hear arguments about a medical malpractice case and the malpractice law that was enacted in 2003. The law was instituted because there was a perceived crisis in the medical malpractice insurance market. Doctors and physician groups were having a hard time finding insurance coverage that they could afford and they believed that it was affecting their ability to treat patients, especially those people with high-risk conditions that require specialists.
On behalf of The Davies Law Firm, LLC posted in Car Accidents on Friday, March 30, 2012
Of course police have to speed from time to time when in pursuit of a suspect or responding to an emergency call, however a new investigation has uncovered a serious problem with police who speed unnecessarily. One South Florida newspaper's investigation found that in a one year period almost 800 police officers from 12 Florida law enforcement agencies were caught driving between 90 and 130 miles per hour on Florida highways.
The report said that officers were caught going to and from work travelling well over 100 miles per hour. That can cause some serious mayhem on the state's roadways. Just ask one young Floridian who was stopped at a red light in 2008 when his car was rear-ended by a police cruiser travelling over 100 miles per hour. His car was hit so hard it was pushed 250 feet forward. The young man was paralyzed and suffered severe brain injuries in the car crash and will require around-the-clock care for the rest of his life.
On behalf of The Davies Law Firm, LLC posted in Motorcycle Accidents on Friday, March 23, 2012
Florida's annual Bike Week 2012 was not what organizers had hoped, when at least ten motorcycle deaths were reported on Central Florida roads during the 10-day event. The last of the accidents occurred Saturday when a 77-year-old woman, who was driving drunk, crashed into a motorcyclist, killing him. She has been charged with DUI manslaughter.
The annual event brought in thousands of people and many accidents. The Florida Highway Patrol were called to 17 crashes on Saturday alone and said that the majority of the accidents occurred in the evening, when people were out celebrating at various venues. The FHP believes that motorcycle accidents occur because sometimes other drivers have a hard time seeing them in the evening, and combine that with speed and possibly alcohol; it usually does not bring about a good result.
On behalf of The Davies Law Firm, LLC posted in Car Accidents on Friday, March 16, 2012
Car seats and booster seats are common ways to restrain your child while you are in a vehicle, but sometimes the child may unbuckle or get out of their seat to get something and then not secure themselves back into the restraint. For a Florida mother, whose child was not restrained in her booster seat, lost her life this week in a car accident in Lake County, Florida.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a car traveling northbound on County Road 437 veered into the southbound lanes of traffic and struck a jeep driven by a 60-year-old man, which then left the road and overturned into a ditch. The car then hit a PT Cruiser, which the 3-year-old child was in. Investigators believed that she died instantly, while the other people involved in the accident were taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center for their non-life threatening injuries.
