Ensuring your home is a safe place for your child to grow, learn and play is incredibly important. Many parents use the help of child safety locks in order to keep their curious toddlers from harming themselves as they explore the world around them. When those locks are defective, a…
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Bicycles, Beaches and Busy Streets
Miami and the surrounding areas are known as very active flourishing communities in many ways. One thing all of these areas have in common are avid bike riders. Many members of the community choose biking as their favorite past time, a more efficient form of transportation, or a way to…
Need a Lyft or an Uber?
Uber and Lyft have increasingly become a streamlined part of everyday life for a majority of people looking for an inexpensive and convenient way to get around. Uber has over 15.6 million users a month in the United States and is a prominent transportation option for most of us who…
Deadly Dressers
Dressers leading to the death of small children sounds like a bad horror film. However, this unfortunate series of events has been a reality for at least three families so far. Sold in several small pieces requiring extensive instruction and a bit of time are the typical furnishings purchased from…
Advocating for Your Injured Child
Sometimes a very unfortunate event affects those who cannot advocate for themselves because they are under the age of 18. If your child is injured on a playground, in a car accident, in a bicycle accident, at a store or in any way that results in a physical injury to…
Do I Still Have a Claim or Am I Out of Time?
Someone rear ends you or hits you as your driving down the street. At the moment you don’t notice any pain or obvious injuries but as the weeks go on you notice discomfort in your neck, back, knees or other parts of your body. A common misconception among those injured…
Do I Need a Personal Injury Lawyer?
Personal injury law is utilized when someone causes physical harm to another and the injured wants to be made whole or compensated for that injury. The experienced attorneys at Friedland | Carmona provide free consultations to those who believe they may have a case and are seeking more information on…
Many Top-Selling SUVs Perform Poorly in IIHS Test
Thirteen SUVs were recently put through front-end crash tests by an insurance industry group and only two of those SUVs received approval ratings. Numerous of the popular models performed poorly in the tests. The only vehicle to get the top rating of “good” was the 2014 Subaru Forester. Mitsubishi’s 2013…
Toyota Reaches $1 Billion Settlement
Toyota Motor Corporation has reached a settlement with Toyota owners who claim the value of their cars and trucks “plummeted after a series of recalls stemming from claims that Toyota vehicles accelerated unintentionally.” The settlement, which is worth more than $1 billion, was filed today and must be approved by…
Toyota Camry Receives “Poor” Safety Rating
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gave the new Toyota Camry a “Poor” in its newest safety rating series. The “Poor” rating for the Toyota Camry, which is the best-selling car in the United States, came in a test designed to measure “how well people are protected when the front…