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		<title>Negligent Security &#8211; Landlord liable regardless of terms of rental agreement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us have rented an apartment at one time or another in our lives. Understandably, the focus of such agreements is upon the length of the lease, the monthly rent amount, and the required security deposit. Often hidden within the &#8220;fine print&#8221; however, are provisions which attempt to limit or altogether waive the landlord&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heymanlawfirm.com/negligent-security-landlord-liable-regardless-of-terms-of-rental-agreement/</link>
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		<title>Florida Drug Laws Ruled Unconstitutional</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 28,2011, Federal Judge Mary Scriven of the Middle District of Florida ruled, in the case of Shelton v. Florida Department of Corrections, that all Florida state laws prohibiting the sale use and/or possession of illegal drugs per Florida Statute 893 are unconstitutional. Crimes are classified in two basic categories: &#8220;general&#8221; intent and &#8220;specific&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heymanlawfirm.com/florida-drug-laws-ruled-unconstitutional/</link>
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		<title>Florida Law and Debtors Rights or &#8220;I&#8217;m uninsured, what&#8217;s protected&#8221; ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I outlined the types of available automobile insurance and stressed the necessity of obtaining as much coverage as financially possible to insure that medical expenses and lost wages can be recovered in the event of injury as a result of an accident. As a corollary to that advice, it is just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heymanlawfirm.com/florida-law-and-debtors-rights-or-im-uninsured-whats-protected/</link>
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		<title>Florida&#8217;s Dangerous Instrumentality Doctrine and the Graves Amendment (or the &#8220;Federal Car Rental Business Relief&#8221; Act )</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I discussed in an earlier post, motor vehicles have previously been deemed to be a &#8220;dangerous instrumentality&#8221; by numerous previous rulings of the Florida courts. As as result, I issued the warning that private automobile owners must be particularly careful when entrusting their vehicle to another driver, in that the owner can be held [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heymanlawfirm.com/the-graves-amendment-or-the-federal-car-rental-business-relief-act/</link>
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		<title>Motorcycle insurance in Florida: Not Required, But Don&#8217;t Hit the Road Without it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Insurance coverage for motorcycles is not required in Florida but strongly advised by St. Petersburg personal injury attorney Robert E. Heyman.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heymanlawfirm.com/motorcycle-insurance-in-florida-not-required-but-dont-hit-the-road-without-it/</link>
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		<title>No Contact Orders : Not a &#8220;Two Way&#8221; Street</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my criminal practice, I have been hired to represent clients who have been charged with both misdemeanor and felony domestic violence charges. In every case , regardless of the merits of the &#8220;victim&#8217;s&#8221; allegations, Florida law prohibits the Defendant from having any contact with the victim, except through pretrial discovery pursuant to the Florida [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heymanlawfirm.com/no-contact-orders-and-domestic-violence-injunctions-not-a-two-way-street/</link>
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		<title>Medical Malpractice Cases in Florida: Rules you need to know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In order to sue for breach of contract, for injuries from an automobile accident or a slip and fall, the plaintiff need only file a complaint in the proper jurisdiction and pay the necessary filing fee. ($400.00 at this time). However, in order to sue a doctor , hospital or other medical care provider, there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heymanlawfirm.com/medical-malpractice-cases-in-florida-rules-you-need-to-know/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Protective Sweeps&#8221; &#8211; Beware the Search in Disguise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, one of my clients called me after she had been arrested for possession of a controlled substance which was discovered in her house by police officers who gained entry and subsequently searched her home under the guise of conducting a &#8220;protective sweep&#8221;. A &#8220;protective sweep&#8221; is narrowly defined as a cursory search of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heymanlawfirm.com/protective-sweeps-beware-the-search-in-disguise/</link>
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		<title>Waiver of Sovereign Immunity in Florida: When the &#8220;King&#8221; can be sued</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At common law, no government could be sued for damages by one of its citizens, no matter how egregious the negligence by a government agent or employee may have been. &#8220;The King can do no wrong&#8221; was the operative phrase which insulated governments from liability since Medieval times. In Florida, that changed in 1975, when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heymanlawfirm.com/waiver-of-sovereign-immunity-in-florida-when-the-king-can-be-sued/</link>
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		<title>Mediation in Personal Injury Cases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the advent of the fourth quarter of 2010, my personal injury practice has, as is usual, focused on reaching year end settlements of cases which are currently in litigation. This trend is in large measure driven by the defendants&#8217; insurance companies desire to &#8220;clear their books&#8221; of cases before the start of the new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.heymanlawfirm.com/mediation-in-personal-injury-cases/</link>
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