According to Florida Statutory Law, the statute of limitations on product liability is four years, with a 10-year maximum period for an action involving a latent defect: WITHIN FOUR YEARS.— (a) An action founded on negligence. (b) An action relating to the...
According to Florida law, pedestrians do not always have the right of way: Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the...
According to Florida case law, a duty to warn about a defective consumer product like a pressure cooker arises whenever a reasonable person would want to be informed about the risk(s) in order to decide whether to expose himself or herself to it: We need not detail...
According to Florida case law as of the date of this article, malice, when talking about public figures, is having the knowledge that a statement is false at the time it is made or making a statement with a reckless disregard of the truth: “To determine whether...
Personal injury lawyers are not free. They typically charge a fee for their services, which is often based on a percentage of the compensation awarded to the client (normally, 331/3%). This is otherwise known as working on a contingency basis, which means that the...
