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The National Safety Council has declared April Distracted Driving Awareness Month. This day of reckoning originated with a mother whose nine-year-old daughter was killed by a distracted driver who was looking at her cell phone while driving her SUV and struck Erica Forney, who was riding her bicycle, head-on. She died tragically two days later, on

Floridians have less rights today, and they are far less protected than they were last week, following enactment of the new tort reform law. On Thursday, March 23, 2023 lawmakers passed CS/CS/HB 837 which is also known as the Omnibus Tort Legislation Act. It represents the most egregious infringement of Floridian’s rights in favor of