Author Archives: Jay Butchko
Coronavirus and Infectious Disease Lawsuits
Businesses are bracing for a wave of coronavirus lawsuits even as Congress moves to provide them immunity. What would immunity mean? Essentially, it would prevent customers and workers from filing lawsuits against the business to recover medical expenses and lost wages. Perhaps spurred by the Trump Administration’s liability waivers at his most recent rallies,… Read More »
Florida Man Gets $250,000 in Truck Injury Lawsuit
Technically, the Florida man was awarded $1 million in the truck accident lawsuit, but the judge reduced the verdict to $250,000. Later, the verdict was thrown out altogether. Now, the man has filed an appeal to have the original $1 million verdict reinstated. What Happened? The crash occurred in 2012. Robert Spinnenweber was driving… Read More »
Girl’s Crew Team Member Sues Over Fatal Car Crash
Holy Cross rowing team member Margaret O’Leary has filed a lawsuit against Holy Cross and coach Patrick Diggins after a fatal car crash left O’Leary with serious injuries. The incident took place in January of this year. The lawsuit was filed in Connecticut where O’Leary originally hails from, but the incident occurred here in… Read More »
Fort Lauderdale Woman Shot With Rubber Bullet Considering Lawsuit
LaToya Ratlieff was peacefully protesting the death of George Floyd when she says Fort Lauderdale police shot her with a rubber bullet. She is not only considering a personal injury lawsuit against the City of Fort Lauderdale, but she is also considering filing a federal civil rights complaint against the city. Ratlieff contends that… Read More »
Woman Who Filed Lawsuit Against Insurance Carrier Loses Big
A Florida woman was awarded over $100,000 by a jury after she successfully sued her insurance carrier. The woman was in a rear-end collision with an uninsured driver and the insurance carrier offered her $1,000 to settle the case. She rejected the settlement and took the case before a jury where she was awarded… Read More »
Tyson Foods Inc. Hit With Federal Wrongful Death Lawsuit
A little recent history first. Tyson Foods, Inc. posted a full-page ad in the New York Times warning Americans that the supply chain was breaking. As it turned out, several Tyson employees had fallen ill with the virus and now there were too few workers to safely man the meat processing plants. This led… Read More »
Jury Sides With City in Water Slide Injury
A Miami jury sided with the City of Miami in a lawsuit filed by the parents of a girl who was injured at the Grapeland Water Park. The girl was 11 years old in 2015 when the accident occurred. She ended up colliding with a boy at the bottom of the slide and damaging… Read More »
Alzheimer Clinic Director Accused of False Diagnosis, Fraud
Imagine being told you have a diagnosis like Alzheimer’s disease only to find out later that your doctor lied to you so that he could bilk your insurance for as much as he could get. The U.S. Justice Department is accusing Sherry-Ann Jenkins of presenting herself as a doctor to patients, diagnosing them with… Read More »
Florida Mental Health Facility Removed from Parkland Lawsuit
While new tragedies like the coronavirus and George Floyd are still wreaking havoc all over the country, old tragedies have still yet to be resolved. The parents of those injured or killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting have still yet to resolve the several civil cases filed against various culpable parties…. Read More »
Did Sloppy Anti-Infection Procedures Cause 22 Deaths at Florida Nursing Home?
The Fair Havens Center Nursing Home recently reported 14 new COVID-19 deaths being the total number of COVID-19 deaths to 22. It’s no secret that nursing homes have been hit hard by the coronavirus, but the question of whether or not these nursing homes are meeting even basic federal guidelines on mitigating the spread… Read More »