Another similarity in theme park injury cases is that the visitors are often distracted. Disney World and Universal Studios Orlando are famous for awesome creations, parades and fireworks display. These displays and attractions are meant to captivate their audiences. Therefore, it is important for pedestrian areas and walkways to take this into consideration. Too many times we have seen injury and accidents due to theme park distractions and crowds.

Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Orlando will always be fun places to visit. We hope that each will remember that their guests assume they have done all they should to make their visit a safe one.

A Vermont jury awarded $7 million in legal damages to a guitarist, Diana Levine. Part of her arm had to be amputated after she was improperly injected with the anti-nausea drug Phenergan made by Wyeth as part of treatment for a migraine.

"The question we must decide is whether the FDA's approvals provide Wyeth with a complete defense to Levine's tort claims. We conclude that they do not," Justice John Paul Stevens concluded in the court's majority opinion. The court also rejected the argument that Levine's claims were pre-empted because it was impossible for Wyeth to comply with both state law and federal labeling requirements.

The court found that Wyeth could have unilaterally added a stronger warning about the IV-push administration used with Levine, and there is no evidence the FDA would have rejected the change. Under federal law and FDA regulations, the manufacturer bears responsibility for the content of its label at all times, Stevens said in the 26-page opinion.

Sadly, physicians and nurses often dismiss complaints of “feeling dizzy” in gentamicin patients who are bed-bound to a condition known as orthostatic hypotension. Orthostatic hypotension is feeling faint when getting up from a lying position. It is due to blood pooling in the legs. Feeling faint, or being close to losing consciousness, is different than feeling dizzy, where the room spins, or where it is hard to keep balance when walking.

After leaving the hospital or being released by the home healthcare agency, the symptoms of gentamicin poisoning continue. Additionally, individuals often begin to suffer mental confusion, difficulty with short-term memory, and tiredness. In many cases, gentamicin poisoning and injury were caused by negligence on the part of a doctor, hospital, home health agency and/or pharmacist. That is why we will continue to seek just results for individuals who needlessly suffer from gentamicin poisoning and injury.

We often review the experience of jurors so that we can continue to do the best job possible. Despite most people's initial reluctance, once they get involved with the process they generally find the experience to be a positive one. For example, one prospective juror recently commented that jury duty, "is the basic level of citizen involvement. It is what you can do if you cannot serve in the military. This is a system that keeps going because someone is willing to step up and keep it going."

We believe that every one who goes to trial deserves to have a lawyer present their case in a manner that assists jurors to make the best decision possible. After more than 20 years, we know that too many individuals involved in car accident, injury and medical malpractice cases unfortunately choose lawyers who do not specialize in civil trial law. For this reason we wrote the Florida Accident & Injury Book. Order your free copy now.

Fortunately, most manufacturers take consumer safety seriously and put forth a significant effort to do all that it reasonably can to avoid needless injury. For those who do not, the courts provide a means to hold reckless product manufacturers accountable for injury and death. In product liability trials it is important to remember that the jury is essentially asked to determine if the product meets reasonable expectations. So, whether it involves an exploding beer bottle or soft drink bottle; or, an exploding gas tank or tire, the jury will likely decide what is reasonable based on their common sense and the technology available.

The editors wrote in the brief that although Federal Drug Administration is seen as "the gold standard" for evaluating drugs, the agency "simply lacks the ability to serve as the sole guarantor of drug safety." If drug makers were shielded from lawsuits related to their treatments, "FDA would be stripped of an essential source of information that the agency has consistently relied on when making its regulatory decisions, and the American public would be deprived of a vital deterrent against pharmaceutical company misconduct," the NEJM editors wrote. These medical doctors and those they represent importantly reported that almost two dozen drugs that were approved by the Federal Drug Administration have been withdrawn from the market since 1997 because of safety hazards.

These medical doctors provide support for product liability lawsuits against giant drug makers. With evidence that many drugs satisfied the low governmental standards only to be proven too dangerous after being placed on the market, the courts must remain accessible to protect consumers' risks.

Understandably, the little boy's family found the action by the State of Florida to be inadequate. How can this slap on the wrist have any meaning when this malpractice and recklessness caused the death of an innocent child? Certainly, such insignificant action by the boards that regulate medicine and pharmacy have proven that individuals must act themselves to receive any justice for medical or pharmacy malpractice. Refusing to be discouraged, the family started a foundation in the hopes of preventing similar future tragedies.

When Orlando residents are fortunate enough to have the signs and symptoms of a heart attack and get to Orlando Regional Medical Center or Florida Hospital, they should receive appropriate and timely care. When they do not, these hospitals should acknowledge their wrongdoing. Sadly, they do not. Instead, like other health care providers, these hospitals try to make excuses to escape responsibility.

In medical malpractice cases, no patient stands a fighting chance unless they have a lawyer who specializes in medical malpractice and has a long history of trial success. These cases rarely settle quickly, if at all. When going up against Orlando Regional Medical Center or Florida Hospital, patients and their families must be prepared to go to war!

According to the Food and Drug Administration, the outbreak, which has sickened 167 people in 17 states since April, is not over even though it has been two weeks since the last confirmed case of a person falling ill. That’s because state and local health departments still are investigating possibly more recent infections.

As Orlando injury lawyers, we know it is often difficult for the FDA to protect consumers from contaminated foods and outbreaks. Despite the FDA’s warning system. people with food poisoning don't always go to the doctor, or have a stool sample analyzed. Indeed, when they do, getting laboratory test results can take two to three weeks. Then health officials must spot a pattern of illness.

The FDA has warned consumers against eating certain raw tomatoes: red plum, red Roma or round. Grape and cherry tomatoes or tomatoes still attached to the vine aren't linked to the illnesses. Also ruled safe are tomatoes from more than 30 states or countries, including part but not all of major producer Florida, where some counties have been cleared but not others. The FDA can rule out as suspects farms and distributors that weren't harvesting or selling when the outbreak began.