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New Trial Denied in $1.8 Million Nursing Home Abuse Case

A Lake Worth nursing home has been denied a new trial after it was hit with a jury verdict of nearly $1.8 million for a former patient’s wrongful death. This was one of the largest trial verdicts ever handed down in a wrongful death lawsuit against a Florida nursing...

45 Florida High Schools Win Safe Driving Grants

The Florida chapter of Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) has announced that 45 high schools in the state will receive $1,000 grants funded by State Farm. The grants will be used to develop safe driving campaigns for teens. SADD is funded by the Florida...

Absence of Distracted Driving Law Hurts State’s Safety Rating

A group of highway safety advocates is giving Florida a rating of “yellow” for its traffic safety laws, saying the state needs to do more to protect motorists. In its recently released 2013 Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws, the Advocates for Highway and Auto...

Two Killed in Manatee County Crash

Two people were killed and two others hospitalized with serious injuries after a head-on collision in Manatee County on January 8. One driver lost control on a curve and drifted across the centerline directly into oncoming traffic. The family of a person killed in a...