Updated: 3/11/2022 If you have filed a lawsuit in a personal injury case, you will likely have your deposition taken by the insurance defense lawyer. Depositions are taken after initial discovery is completed. The initial discovery consists of the exchange[...]
Social media has fast become one of our preferred ways of staying in touch with friends and family near and far. In 2015, a staggering 65 percent of American adults used social media, according to the Pew Research Center. Many[...]
This slip and fall case against Applebee’s demonstrates the extent that businesses and their lawyers will go to avoid paying claims. At St. Petersburg Personal Injury Attorneys McQuaid & Douglas, we routinely get updates on the newest court decisions about[...]
In an odd case from Florida, an appellate court determined that a woman who was injured in a mobile gym truck could not recover from her own uninsured motorist policy through Geico. The strange facts of this case made this[...]
St. Petersburg Personal Injury Attorneys Sean McQuaid and Jonathon Douglas take pride in helping their clients in their time of need. In today’s society, we are inundated with television ads, radio ads, and social networking ads directed from large volume[...]
An elderly and disabled man who tripped and fell on a curb on the way to his car was permitted to continue his lawsuit in a recently decided Florida case. In a local decision from Hillsborough County, the Second District[...]
In a recent case from Brevard County, the court decided that simply tripping on an uneven floor simply isn’t enough to bring a personal injury claim. This case sets a clear standard about when you can or cannot bring an[...]
What do you do if you’ve been injured at a hotel? In Pinellas county, we have so many hotels and so many tourists coming to our county that we are constantly called with various types of hotel accident cases. Now[...]
Hotel injury cases are common in Pinellas County due to the number of hotels and visitors we have to our community. In Pinellas County, we have hotels in St. Petersburg, St. Pete Beach, Treasure Island, Madeira Beach, North Redington Beach,[...]
On June 12, 2019, Florida’s 4th District Court of Appeal confirmed that in a trip and fall case, a landlord/owner has a duty to maintain a broken sidewalk even if the sidewalk was known to the resident to be broken[...]
