Orlando Injury Lawyer Blog

Orlando home improvement stores, including Home Depot and Lowe's, are wonderful places to shop. Home owners and do-it-yourselfers find a wealth of good ideas and opportunities to improve their home and yard. Unfortunately, as Orlando injury lawyers, we have seen increasing numbers of avoidable injury claims involving Lowe's and Home Depot.

Many times these injury claims involve trip and fall hazards. For example, when shoppers are walking down aisles inside and out in the garden area, they have a right to a level, even and non-slippery surface. Yet, we have Orlando home improvement stores with floors and sidewalks that are broken, uneven and slippery. We also see aisles cluttered with trip hazards.

While no one can guarantee that trip and falls, or slip and falls will not happen, Home Depot and Lowe's can provide safe pedestrian areas to prevent avoidable injury. In many of our cases, it is important to obtain photographs of the scene of the fall. Unsuspecting injury victims who trust the home improvement store to “do the right thing,” may be surprised when the dangerous aisle, floor or sidewalk is repaired and the owner or operator denies responsibility.

Most people are decent, hardworking and simply want to be treated fairly. Sadly, home improvement stores do not always do so when injury results from their carelessness. Fortunately, Florida law has permitted us to assist many Orlando injury victims when dangerous floors, sidewalks or parking lots have caused preventable harm. To help those who have been injured, we continue to make available a free copy of the Florida Accident & Injury Book, Seeking Justice.

Orlando injury cases can have some strange consequences. As Orlando injury lawyers, we have represented individuals with significant brain injury, orthopedic and nerve damages. Some Orlando injury victims suffer falls and land on their head and wake up with their memory wiped out. A few revive with their personality totally changed. Others tragically die. In a most interesting case, a woman fell down a stairwell, struck her head and injured her brain. The unfortunate results included waking up speaking with a Russian accent.

She had never been to Russia. She doesn't remember ever hearing a Russian accent. Yet since that fall, the first question she gets from strangers is: "Where are you from?" This case demonstrates how a personal injury can change your life in an instant.

For 42 years, this innocent woman whose case is being studied at the National Institutes of Health and the University of Maryland, spoke with what NIH neurologist Allen R. Braun called a typical mid-Atlantic American accent. But since the fall, her clipped way with consonants -- dropping the final "s" from some plural words, saying "dis" and "dat" for "this" and "that," or "wiz" instead of "with" -- and her formation of vowels -- "home" sounds more like "herm," "well" sounds like "wuhl" -- identify her more like a transplant from Moscow. The more fatigued she becomes, the thicker her accent grows.

What she has, Braun and other doctors say, is Foreign Accent Syndrome -- a rare and little-understood medical condition that can follow a serious brain injury. "It does sound strange," Braun said. "It certainly does sound like someone has a foreign accent."

For more information on injury claims, you can read the Florida injury book, Seeking Justice: An Insider's Guide for the Injured. When I wrote this book, I hoped it would help people who suffered an injurycar accident protect themselves from insurance company adjusters and understand the important issues before it is too late. I also wanted to provide a solid method for injured people to find the right lawyer. From the reviews we have received, it has done just that. For anyone injured in a Florida car accident, a Free copy of this book can be a great place to start.