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What You Can Do and Can’t Do if Your Dog or Cat Gets Injured in a Car Accident

We all think about finding the right auto insurance coverage to protect us in case of an automobile accident, but have you ever thought about coverage for your dog or cat in case of an auto accident? Those who have pets understand how important it is to keep our pet(s) healthy and safe. For most of us, our pet(s) are family. They are your companion, laughter, and security. They are just priceless. But what can you do if your pet gets injured in a car accident?

Uber Maps

Uber and Lyft Rider Safety Tips

Uber and Lyft are growing increasingly popular due to the ease of arranging transportation from your phone. While Uber and Lyft drivers go through a background check, it is important to be safe when entrusting your life to a stranger.

Airbags

Airbags should be about saving lives…

When you think of airbags, you think of safety, security, and protection. Now a 'days, advanced frontal airbags use sophisticated sensing devices to provide the right level of protection to drivers and front seat passengers in the event of a crash. Even more so, frontal air bags have saved over 25,000 lives between 1987 and 2008. Sounds pretty reliable, don't you think? Unfortunately, that wasn't the case... 

Porsche

Lawsuit Brought Against Porsche by Widow

The lawsuit brought against Porsche by Roger W. Rodas' widow has of course captured a great deal of attention because it involves the death of a celebrity and an ultra-rare, ultra-exotic sports car. But the law involved in automobile defect claims is at its core very simple

Driving Drowsy

Driving Drowsy Similar to Drunk Driving

Drowsy driving causes more than 100,000 crashes a year, resulting in 40,000 injuries and 1,550 deaths. (NHTAS). Despite these high numbers drowsy driving remains underreported and estimates are conservative.

Uber Map

Is Uber to Blame for a Little Girls Death?

Much like baking a cake, any successful lawsuit has necessary ingredients. One of the necessary ingredients is found if the family can answer "yes" to the following question: Is Uber responsible for the negligent actions of its user drivers? Uber, through its business model, answers this question in a loud "no". They claim that Uber is not a transportation provider, it does not employ any of the drivers using the app, and, more to the point, it does not accept liability for their actions.

Top Highway Safety Threats

Technology Addresses Top Highway Safety Threats

Our society suffers from the many car accidents that occur every year. In an effort to protect its citizens, the government has begun to speed up research on technologies that would prevent many of these accidents. Joan Lowy, of the Associated Press, reports that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ...

Safety Gets a Shake Up

Auto Safety Gets a Shake Up

Auto Accident prevention is taken very seriously at Rubenstein Law. That’s why we took notice when the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently “de-throned” some kings of car safety. Among them…the Toyota Camry, which has been a favorite with Consumer Reports for many years. 

Changing a Flat Tire

Broward County Men Killed While Changing a Flat

I-95 in Pompano Beach was the scene of a deadly accident over the weekend. Three men died and two more are critically injured from a car accident in Palm Beach County. The group of Broward roofing company workers were on their way to a job when they got a flat...

Car Accident

Florida Among States With Highest Car Accident Fatalities

Florida drivers face some daunting new statistics from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). A study, out this week, found fatal car accidents are more likely to occur in the southern United States. Orlando and Miami were among cities with high car accident death rates. Perhaps not surprisingly, young drivers...

Teen Drivers

Memorial Day Car Accidents High Among Teen Drivers

Florida teen drivers just embarked on the 100 deadliest days of driving (summer break)...starting with Memorial Day weekend. While car accidents involving young drivers typically increases this time of year, the odds are going even higher now that half of all...

Roadside

Florida Woman Survives I-95 Crash But Dies While Stranded Roadside

A Florida truck accident has claimed the life of Lauderhill woman. The 29-year-old died Tuesday morning while standing on the side of I-95, reporting her one-car crash to 911 dispatchers. The driver was northbound on I-95 near Brunswick when she hit a guardrail and bounced back into traffic. Police are not...

Miami-Dade Truck Accident Wreaks Havoc

New information in an early-morning tractor-trailer accident that shut down several blocks near the intersection of Coral Way and S.W. 84ht Avenue in Miami finds some of the teens involved may have been racing, according to police. Witnesses say two cars were traveling westbound...

Motorbike

Florida Governor Orders Investigation in Deadly Truck Pileup

A 62-acre Florida brush fire is being blamed in the I-75 truck and car pileup that took 10 lives and injured dozens more this weekend, but new information has the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) under fire for its decision to re-open the highway to more traffic after the first crash. FHP...

Florida

Florida Keys Fatal Crash

Florida Highway patrol is investigating a head-on crash that killed both drivers. It happened at mile marker marker 102 along US-1 in Key Largo Sunday evening. 79-year-old Ralph Sheffler was driving his van south while Maria Esteves, of Miami, was driving a north when, for unknown reasons, Sheffler crossed the center...


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