Personal Injury Blog

Mark Roman | August 10, 2016 | Bicycle Accidents, Car Accidents, Child Injuries, Newsletter Article, Pedestrian Accidents, Personal Injury

Summer is coming to end and kids across the country are returning, or preparing their return, to the classroom. The month of August is also Back-to-School Safety Month! If your child is going back to school, Roman Austin Personal Injury Lawyers would like to remind you about the importance of making safety a top item… read more

Mark Roman | August 5, 2016 | Pedestrian Accidents

With the school year approaching quickly, many families are getting ready to wave their children off to their first day of school. While many children are taken to school by family members or by bus, other students walk to and from school. While this can be a healthy, daily form of exercise, it can be… read more

Mark Roman | August 3, 2016 | Personal Injury

Chances are you’ve heard of concussions, especially if you’ve played sports. Although many people don’t feel concussions are serious injuries, it’s important to remember that they are in every way a form of traumatic brain injury. Whether you and your children enjoy contact sports and are gearing up for football season or an unpredictable accident… read more

Mark Roman | July 28, 2016 | Personal Injury

Unless you’re living under a rock, you’ve heard about the Pokemon Go game by now. The game, which downloads to a smart phone as an app, allows one to visit various sites where various characters will appear on your phone screen. The app has become hugely popular in the last few weeks, with players flocking… read more

Mark Roman | July 11, 2016 | news

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles has designated July as Wrong Way Driving Awareness Month. Wrong way driving collisions occur when vehicles fail to observe pavement markings and posted traffic signs and proceed into a lane going the wrong direction. The majority of wrong way driving collisions are head-on, resulting in three-quarters… read more

Mark Roman | June 16, 2016 | news

Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited . . .the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose. These are not the words of a hysteria gun-control advocate. They are instead the words of the late Supreme… read more

Mark Roman | June 14, 2016 | Insurance Companies

A St. Petersburg firefighter, Bradley Westphal, won a huge legal victory for himself and other injured workers in Florida last week. The Florida Supreme Court found that a “doughnut hole” in the workers’ compensation system which deprived Westphal of benefits was unconstitutional and could not stand. Westphal was seriously injured when he lifted heavy furniture… read more

Mark Roman | June 1, 2016 | Car Accidents

By: Mark Roman Car crashes are always someone’s fault. There were more than 374,000 traffic crashes in Florida in 2015. And we are well on pace for similar numbers for 2016. About 160,000 involved injuries and there were almost 3,000 fatalities. Insurance companies and their defense lawyers love to call these “accidents”. They even suggest… read more

Mark Roman | May 31, 2016 | news

The foreclosure crisis is well known to Americans, and particularly to Floridians. Mortgage fraud in writing home loans has been widely publicized, and many people know about the shameful underwriting practices (or really, nonexistent underwriting practices) of the big lenders. The back end of the story – how foreclosures worked their way through the court… read more

Mark Roman | May 24, 2016 | Personal Injury

This is National Safe Boating Week. It’s no coincidence that boating safety advocates in the U.S. and Canada chose this week for an awareness campaign. While Florida boaters enjoy the water year-round, places further north are just beginning their season for boating. Peak times for boating in most of North America will be from now… read more