The Briggs Law Firm Blog

We have written before about how a loved one's unexpected death can throw an entire family into emotional distress. The trauma of the event and the grief that is experienced has a way of freezing decision-making abilities.Things that might be handled easily under...

When death occurs unexpectedly, it makes little difference what the circumstances happened to be. The pain and anguish that loved ones and friends of victims endure is bound to be the same whether the death was the result of an accident in a workplace setting or...

It was just last week that we addressed for the first time the issue of so-called "never events." These are medical errors that health safety experts have identified as being completely preventable situations or conditions in hospitals and clinics which, when they...

A couple of weeks ago we took the opportunity to offer a bit of an education about what it takes to bring a wrongful death suit in Florida. As that item noted, there are some very specific stipulations that the law requires, including that the victim's death has to...

Every state has statutes on the books that frame the conditions under which a wrongful death suit may be filed. In Florida the relevant language that needs to be referred to can be found in sections 768.16 through 768.26 of the state law dealing with torts. You are...