Six Flags Not Liable For Woman’s Injury Fleeing From Clown

My sister was terrified of a giant clown that loomed over us every time we drove past a certain car dealership on Sunrise Boulevard. “Six Flags cannot take the fright out of Fright Fest, just as baseball teams cannot remove their bats and balls without fundamentally changing the game,” the opinion reads. Read more at: […]

The Battle of Evermore: How the Insurance Lobby Rules Florida

The end of the year brings legislative sessions to a close, setting up final face-offs between special interests affected by pending legislation. Back in the Spring, I wrote in separate posts about a long hoped-for consumer win in Florida to change unfair wrongful death laws: Turns out, politics isn’t the only place where misinformation is […]

High Water Everywhere

It’s a day for the blues. There’s nothing like a toe-tapper about a mass casualty event. When it comes down to it, that’s all the blues are about: making the insufferable thing bearable. In High Water Everywhere, Charley Patton sang about the 1927 Mississippi levee break that displaced tens of thousands. Patton lived on Dockery’s […]

“I Swear, It Sounded Like A Train”

The clouds started forming five o’clock p.m. The funnel clouds touched down five miles north of Russellville Siren’s were blowing, clouds spat rain And as the thing went through, I swear, it sounded like a train Drive-By Truckers, Tornadoes Floridians are tough. Almost indestructible. They may not always exercise the best judgment but – given […]