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Back in 2008, the Florida Supreme Court ruled against parent liability waivers for a minor participating in activities at a commercial venue. The wrongful-death case, Scott Corey Kirton v. Jordan Fields, involved 14-year-old Christopher Jones, killed in 2003 while riding an all-terrain vehicle at Thunder Cross Motor Sports Park in Okeechobee. His father had…

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, say victorious supporters of Florida House Bill 187, the so-called “Bong Bill.” Their theory: fewer available smoking implements mean less firing up. The new law, which passed the state Senate (SB 366) and House in April during the 2010 Legislative Session, went into effect July 1 and bans the…

The Garvin Injury Law in proud to announce that Leland E. Garvin has recently been named by Florida Super Lawyers magazine as one of the Top Young Lawyers in Florida for 2010. Only2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by Super Lawyers for this list. Each year lawyers are asked to…

The Fort Lauderdale office of the Garvin Injury Law is pleased to announce the successful transition to our new location: 642 Northeast 3rd avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33304. Our new office is conveniently located in downtown Ft. Lauderdale, just north of the Federal Courthouse on 3rd Avenue. Prior to the renovation, this building was…

According to a recent study performed by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, 73% of Americans talk on the telephone while driving. The Insurance Industry for Traffic Safety found that almost 6000 deaths were caused by distracted drivers in 2008. The numbers for teens are particularly striking. 21% of fatal car crashes involved cell phone usage…

In courtrooms around the state, it has long been the practice that juveniles were to be shackled by the wrists and ankles with belly chains, chained to furniture or chained to each other when they were brought to appear before a judge. In this 6-1 opinion, The Florida Court stated,  that this process was…

I received a call the other day from a friend who told me that I should write a blog post about the recent Tiger Woods auto accident issue. I was trying to think of what to write and figured that the issue may be a little overexposed, when it came to me. Tiger’s recent…

The United States House of Representatives yesterday (10/7/09) took action that will hopefully lead to the end of discriminatory treatment of soldiers injured by medical malpractice. Since the Feres decision by the United States Supreme Court in 1950, soldiers have not been able to bring actions for medical malpractice against the government; this is true irrespective of…

Last week Broward County Court Judge Lee Jay Seidman concluded a four-day hearing by ruling that the accuracy of many breath tests using the Intoxilyzer 8000 has been “fatally compromised.” The Intoxilyzer 8000 is the most recent version of a device that is designed to detect the percentage of alcohol in the breath of…

The Garvin Injury Law is proud to announce that Fort Myers attorney Jeff Garvin was sworn in as President of the Florida Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates at its Annual Convention in Longboat Key, Florida on July 25th. ABOTA is an invitation only national organization of trial   attorneys dedicated to preserving the independence…