We bring more products into our home during the holidays than at any other time of the year. That means the risk of dangerous and defective products injuries peak each December and January. Our defective product attorneys have posted recently about the risks, including those posed by the global marketplace…
While the coronavirus pandemic has brought a sense of isolation to virtually everyone, senior citizens are experiencing extreme isolation in record numbers. More prone to serious infection, and often with fewer surviving friends and family to support them, our elderly loved ones are most vulnerable as we enter the second…
There is perhaps nothing sweeter and more genuine than the utter delight of a child with a new toy. At Associates and Bruce L. Scheiner, Attorneys for the Injured, we are a family of parents. We take particular care when working with children, whether in our offices, in the courtroom,…
Neighbors are calling for change at a North Fort Myers intersection after separate collisions killed a child and injured a teenager. NBC-2 reports a 5-year-old girl was killed when she rode her scooter into the road near Castleview Drive at Bayshore Road, where she was struck and killed by an…
Most of us start with the best of intentions each holiday shopping season. We set a budget. We make a plan. We resolve to slow down and enjoy ourselves. There is every evidence the holiday season is in full season as early as ever in Southwest Florida this year, to…
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is joining forces with local law enforcement this October to bring attention to National Pedestrian Safety Month. Our pedestrian injury lawyers have written extensively about the epidemic of serious and fatal pedestrian collisions throughout Florida. South Florida, in particular, has been…
Fort Myers police have made an arrest in a deadly hit-and-run crash on State Road 82, NBC-2 reports. The arrest comes several months after a 30-year-old man was killed in the June 1 collision in the 11900 block of State Route 82. Authorities say the defendant caused the collision through…
A Cape Coral man died last week after being pinned between two vehicles along a neighborhood street, NBC-2 reported. The man was putting tools into the back of his vehicle when a Nissan Sentra driven by a 26-year-old man struck him, pinning him between the two vehicles, according to authorities.…
When it comes to the coronavirus pandemic, few places share a bleaker outlook than Florida nursing homes. The Naples Daily News reports Florida nursing home employees continue to fight vaccine mandates, which could halt new admissions. The pushback against a federal mandate for all nursing home employees is worsening an…
The death of an Ohio woman in a personal watercraft accident on Fort Myers Beach highlights the risk of injury to tourists both in and out of the water. With all of us facing the stress of the coronavirus pandemic, it is particularly disheartening to hear of serious or fatal…