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Wage Earners Get High-tech Help from Dept. of Labor
Florida Wage & Hour Laws are pretty clear-cut and are designed to protect the rights of workers. But, as we’ve learned in recent weeks, companies don’t always treat their employees fairly and wit…
Slip & Fall Accidents Deter Restaurant Goers
Florida slip & fall accidents actually have an impact on the economy. This is according to a new survey by a national service professionals company (Cintas Corp). How? Every time a slip & fal…
New Overtime Pay Lawsuits Filed This Week
Working overtime and not getting paid for it…that is just one of several allegations in a slew of lawsuits being filed around the country by employees of major chain stores. Pep Boys, Wal-Mart, even…
Florida Woman Survives I-95 Crash But Dies While Stranded Roadside
A Florida truck accident has claimed the life of Lauderhill woman. The 29-year-old died Tuesday morning while standing on the side of I-95, reporting her one-car crash to 911 dispatchers. The driver…
Defective Hip Replacement Products Now Facing Federal Scrutiny
Injuries related to defective hip replacement products are climbing and now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is getting involved. In response to mounting concerns about the safety of metal…
Florida Hospital to Pay $15 million for Birth Injury
Florida birth injuries, while rare, are devastating for the victims and their families. Along with the physical and emotional trauma of birth injury, the financial burden can be just as devastating…
Florida Wage and Hour Update
Florida’s minimum wage just went up 36 cents at the first of this year. It’s now $7.61 per hour. The minimum wage for tipped employees went up by the same increased amount to $4.65 per hour. This is…
Florida Bicycle Accidents Among Highest in Nation
his Presidents Day weekend has been a rough one for the family of 36-year-old, Aaron Cohen. An avid cyclist, Cohen was struck and killed in a hit-and-run accident on the Rickenbacker Causeway Wednesd…
Miami-Dade Truck Accident Wreaks Havoc
New information in an early-morning tractor-trailer accident that shut down several blocks near the intersection of Coral Way and S.W. 84ht Avenue in Miami finds some of the teens involved may have b…
Florida Among Recall of Common Baby Product
Florida is among nine states listed in a Johnson & Johnson recall of thousands of tubes of its Aveeno Baby Calming Comfort Lotion. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) sampled a batch of the…
Florida Governor Orders Investigation in Deadly Truck Pileup
A 62-acre Florida brush fire is being blamed in the I-75 truck and car pileup that took 10 lives and injured dozens more this weekend, but new information has the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) under f…
Florida Keys Fatal Crash
Florida Highway patrol is investigating a head-on crash that killed both drivers. It happened at mile marker marker 102 along US-1 in Key Largo Sunday evening. 79-year-old Ralph Sheffler was driving…