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West Palm Beach Truck Driver Involved in Fatal Accident had Multiple Tickets
The truck driver held responsible for the fiery accident that left seven people dead, including five children, received several tickets as a commercial truck driver over the years. Steve Holland, 59, of West Palm Beach was ticketed multiple times across the country while driving large commercial trucks between 2000 and 2014. He was cited… Read More »
Senior Suffers Fatal Injuries at Local Nursing Home
Last July, a resident at a Palm Beach County nursing home was catastrophically injured, ultimately resulting in her death. Shirley Kazan, 87, was sent to the emergency room from Boulevard Rehabilitation Center on July 8, 2017 for impaired breathing. Once at the hospital, doctors discovered that Kazan had suffered from seven broken ribs, internal… Read More »
Florida Court Ruling Expands Medical Malpractice Possibilities
The Florida Supreme Court’s decision in a ruling made in December expands the possibilities for victims of medical malpractice to hold all medical professionals accountable for their actions. In the case of Ruiz v. Tenet Hialeah Healthsystem Inc. et al., the state supreme court revived the claims against an anesthesiologist who was accused of… Read More »
West Palm Beach Police Officer Hits Two Pedestrians
The police are investigating a car accident involving one of their own after a West Palm Beach police officer struck two pedestrians last week. The accident took place on the 3100 block of North Jog Road in West Palm Beach around midnight on January 21. The police officer was patrolling the Apoxee Trail when… Read More »
Florida Medical Malpractice Presuit Experts Must Share Specialty
A Florida appeals court released two opinions last week that require presuit affidavits in medical malpractice cases be from a healthcare provider who specializes in the same field as the medical professional being sued. Both cases stemmed from botched surgery cases in Florida, where the victims in these cases filed presuit affidavits from a… Read More »
Where Do You Go When You Die? The Increasing Signs That Human Consciousness Remains After Death
Newsweek “Our consciousness, it seems, does not become annihilated just because we’ve crossed the threshold of death; it appears to keep functioning and not dissipate.” Read the full story
Opinion | Rachael Denhollander: The Price I Paid for Taking On Larry Nassar – The New York Times
By RACHAEL DENHOLLANDER – JAN. 26, 2018 On Jan. 16, women and girls from across the country began congregating in a courtroom in Lansing, Mich. Some of us were athletes; some of us were not. Some of us were white; some of us were black. Some of us were married; some of us were… Read More »
Two from Wellington plead guilty to sober-home fraud scheme
WELLINGTON — Two Wellington residents are facing prison terms after they pleaded guilty in U.S. Federal Court to participating in a multimillion-dollar insurance fraud and money-laundering scheme connected to their ownership of sober homes and a drug-treatment center, the Justice Department said Friday. Tovah Lynn Jasperson, 48, and Alan Martin Bostom, 75, were the owners of… Read More »
Former deputy, state House candidate faces patient brokering charges
A former Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy who left to open a West Palm Beach drug treatment center was arrested Tuesday on 15 counts of patient brokering. Robert “Bobby” Simeone, 46, owner of Epiphany’s Treatment Center and an unsuccessful 2016 candidate for state House, was the latest person arrested by the State Attorney’s Sober Home… Read More »
Larry Nassar shouldn’t be the only one going to jail
by Michael Dolce The Guardian, 1.26.18 Survivors reported Nassar’s abuse to coaches, trainers, parents, therapists, a training facility owner, and even law enforcement officials – but all in vain. It is tragically ironic that in the same month we applauded the courageous young survivors confronting Larry Nassar in court for his horrific abuse, we… Read More »
