In Florida, UM coverage is “uninsured motorist” coverage for your car. Florida law does not require you to have this coverage but you would be wise to get it and keep it. Why? According to recent numbers from the Insurance Information Institute nearly 25% of Florida drivers are uninsured. What this means is that if Read more...

Is a law firm better just because it is bigger? The answer to that seems rather obvious doesn’t it. Is a company better only because it is the biggest one? Chili’s will never put a great mom and pop taco stand out of business. Outback isn’t running a smaller, better steakhouse out of town. The Read more...

Fighting For Families law firm is many things. It is a 25-year law firm with a proven track record of recovering for their clients. It is hard-working attorneys emailing and texting at 5 a.m. for their client. It is a law firm grounded in the belief that if we take care of our client, then Read more...

In the past 30 days we at FightingForFamilies law firm documented numerous times just how dangerous it is for bicyclists in Pinellas County. Pinellas County is one of the most dangerous locations for bicyclists and pedestrians in the United States. And it’s not getting better. Just three weeks ago we blogged:  Combined deaths of cyclists Read more...

The number of traffic accident deaths for 2021 may exceed 40,000 people when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration gets all of it final numbers. NHTSA has already said that for the third quarter of 2021 there was an increase of 12% from the previous year. That sounds like a small percentage but it translates Read more...

This past week—January 23-30, 2022—was particularly bad and deadly for pedestrians in Tampa Bay and just as bad for scooter riders. Early Sunday morning, January 30, 2022 a 23-year-old scooter driver was struck by a hit-and-run driver on 66th Street in Pinellas County. We had just posted a blog article which gave statistics on how Read more...

Yes. The answer to the question is yes. In Florida the Florida Bar considers that the attorney works for the client and that the client can terminate their attorney. In personal injury cases it is the client who is in control and is the decision-maker on their case.  OK, HOW DO I CHANGE ATTORNEYS? There Read more...

The number of bicycle deaths and pedestrian deaths is increasing in Pinellas County. Only a month (December 27, 2021 blog) ago we reported the bicycle crash numbers in the Tampa Bay area:  425 bicycle crashes and 13 fatalities in Hillsborough County.  For Pinellas County there were 478 crashes and 15 fatalities for bicyclists. That is more Read more...

We recently wrote about injuries occurring at AIRBNB and VRBO vacation residences and properties. (See our blog of September 03, 2021) We now see AIRBNB having to block rentals to short-term renters in certain locations because of “disruptive parties held at the short-term rental homes”. This is according to the Tampa Bay Times (December 25, Read more...

How many bicycle crashes are there in Hillsborough and Pinellas County in 2021? Just 13 months ago we wrote about how dangerous it is for bicyclists to ride in the Tampa Bay area, and specifically so in Pinellas County and Hillsborough County. (See Blog November 11, 2020) The statistics then were astounding: an average of Read more...