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How New “Slip Ramps” Are Easing Holiday Traffic on Selmon Expressway

How New “Slip Ramps” Are Easing Holiday Traffic on Selmon Expressway

Thanksgiving is over and it’s time to shift into Christmas gear! In Tampa, you know it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas when packed highways are the norm long after regular commute hours, and weekend driving is nightmarish. Because we provide a huge selection of both big box stores and local boutiques and businesses, ...

Premises Liability Vocabulary: Words and Phrases Victims Should Know

Premises Liability Vocabulary: Words and Phrases Victims Should Know

Following a slip and fall injury on someone else’s property, victims are left with many questions. What caused the accident? Who is at fault? Lawyers are there to answer these questions (and more) and help their clients navigate the process of pursuing justice. Sometimes though, navigating that process can leave victims with even more questions thanks to ...

Olivia Bryant: Fall 2021 Scholarship Winner – Driving Distractions

Olivia Bryant: Fall 2021 Scholarship Winner – Driving Distractions

Olivia Bryant is our Fall 2021 Scholarship winner! This is her winning essay submission on different driving distractions we face and how to end them. Read more on our scholarship program here. Throughout the generations, distractions for drivers have become much more popular and tempting. Just a few decades ago, the biggest distraction was the ...

Slip and Fall Statistics in Tampa, Florida

According to slip and fall accident statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about one in five falls results in a serious injury, such as a head injury or broken bones. Over 800,000 people are hospitalized for fall-related injuries every year. And for people over 65, falling once doubles your chance of ...

Owen King: Fall 2020 Scholarship Runner-Up

Owen King: Fall 2020 Scholarship Runner-Up

Our Fall 2020 Scholarship essay prompt asked students, “How have you personally been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and what have you learned? What have you done to help others in your community during this time? If you were in charge, how would you have addressed the concerns we’ve seen?” Owen King won second place ...

Evan Kauffman: Fall 2020 Scholarship Winner

Evan Kauffman: Fall 2020 Scholarship Winner

Our Fall 2020 Scholarship essay prompt asked students, “How have you personally been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and what have you learned? What have you done to help others in your community during this time? If you were in charge, how would you have addressed the concerns we’ve seen?” Evan Kauffman is our first ...

Preventing and Preparing for a Slip and Fall

Preventing and Preparing for a Slip and Fall

October is the scariest month of the year, but that doesn’t mean you should be scared of the legal world! Brooks Law Group aims to clear up legal confusion and make it easier to understand. That’s why we’ve joined with the Greater Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce for a series of networking calls throughout October. ...

Second Place Fall Scholarship Essay – Justin Kelleher

This Fall, we received an incredible amount of high quality essays for our Fall Scholarship program. As always, we love to share some of the great work Florida students are capable of producing with you! The second place winner of this past semester’s scholarship award was Justin Kelleher. He wrote the following essay for the ...

First Place Fall Scholarship Essay – Kenzie Luckett

This Fall, we received an incredible amount of high quality essays for our Fall Scholarship program. As always, we love to share some of the great work Florida students are capable of producing with you! The first place winner of this semester’s scholarship award was Kenzie Luckett. The following essay was written by her for ...

Announcing the Fall 2019 Scholarship Winners!

Announcing the Fall 2019 Scholarship Winners!

Steve Brooks joins us this week from the southernmost point of the US in the Florida Keys. It’s finally time to reveal our two talented winners in this Fall’s student scholarship program. Announcing the Fall 2019 Scholarship Winners! We asked students across the state of Florida to write on the topic of texting while driving ...

Slip and Falls: The Danger You Don’t Expect

Slip and Falls: The Danger You Don’t Expect

When we hop onto our motorcycle or take a trip in the car, we’re very aware of the potential for danger. While we don’t often worry about it, we know that an accident could happen in an instant. Hopefully that affects how we conduct ourselves. The same is true for being a pedestrian or even ...

Cutting Corners to Cut Prices: The Walmart Story

Cutting Corners to Cut Prices: The Walmart Story

We’re all familiar with the retail giant that is Walmart. While the chain started with a single store in 1950, today it is an international industry leader with stores across the world. Its meteoric rise to success has not come without controversy. Even in recent history, Walmart has been embroiled in charges of corporate corruption, employee ...

Kavya Shah – Second Place Winner of the Fall 2018 Scholarship

The Brooks Law Group Scholarship One of the things that brings me the most joy in my practice is helping others. I’ve spent my career fighting for justice on behalf of our clients for their personal injury, auto accident, social security and wrongful death cases. The Brooks Law Group has been blessed with over 25 ...

Explosive Airbags: The Takata Recall and Downfall

Explosive Airbags: The Takata Recall and Downfall

As automobile technology has increased, so have the safety features and regulations. Today, our cars are safer than ever. They come standard with features that keep us all better protected on the road, from antilock brakes to traction control. Some of the newest luxury cars come equipped with futuristic features like accident avoidance systems. We ...

Slip and Fall: Risk Factors, Prevention & What to Do Next

Slip and Fall: Risk Factors, Prevention & What to Do Next

These days, it can feel like accident and tragedy is lurking around every corner. If you’ve turned on the news lately, you’ve probably heard more than a bit of doom and gloom. I’ve always done my best not to look at the world this way. Even after spending a career surrounded by people in some ...

Slip and Fall – “Denying Gravity” A Local Play Starting A Chain Reaction

Slip and Fall – “Denying Gravity” A Local Play Starting A Chain Reaction

For many years now I have represented people who have slipped and fallen at stores, nursing homes, parking lots, you name it. It is human nature to think, “oh, well it was my fault I didn’t see the crack” or “I should have been more careful” and then to just go on about one’s day ...

Injured From a Slip, Trip, Fall or Dog Bite? If So, We Have You Covered!

Injured From a Slip, Trip, Fall or Dog Bite? If So, We Have You Covered!

Premises liability refers to injuries suffered by persons on another person’s property. It is the legal duty of property owners to maintain their property in a safe condition. This includes homeowners and owners of retail businesses, grocery stores, gyms, golf courses, bar and restaurant owners. This duty to protect visitors or others lawfully on their ...

Slip and Fall Cases Explained

A slip and fall case is a lawsuit used to recover compensation for injuries sustained in an accident that occurred from allegedly unsafe conditions on a business property. In Florida, the law requires that owners or managers of businesses maintain their property in a reasonably safe condition. If they fail to do so, and persons ...

Potential Premises Liability at Lake Bonny Skate Park

This week, The Ledger reported an incident involving a case of possible premises liability at the Lake Bonny skate park in Lakeland. Last month, as 13-year-old Christopher Walker was attempting a skateboarding maneuver in the park at 10 p.m., the facility’s outdoor lights suddenly switched off, plunging the area into darkness. As a result, the ...

Premises Liability at the Hard Rock Live

Last month, a few patrons testing their luck at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino got a little more excitement than they bargained for. Their fun came to a screeching halt as a 15-foot temporary construction wall fell without warning in a corridor area, according to WTSP. Apparently the wall was placed there several ...