A fishing trip turned deadly Tuesday morning when an airboat capsized in the Rodman Reservoir.
The 64-year-old operator of the boat was killed in the accident, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Joy Hill said. His 50-year-old fishing companion received minor injuries.

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Investigators are still looking for the driver that struck a motorcycle and killed the rider in Georgia. It was late Sunday night when Tahj Robinson, 22, was riding his 2011 Suzuki around 10:00 p.m. when he was struck by a 2011 Saturn at the intersection of Canal Road and Golden Isles Parkway.

Robinson was airlifted to Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah where he later died. The driver of the vehicle that struck Robinson fled the scene. The state patrol is still attempting to determine the driver’s identity and whereabouts.

Security camera footage from a nearby Racetrac convenience store has helped the police identify the driver as male.

Floridians are demanding reform for personal injury protection (PIP) due to an increase in fraudulent claims. Governor Rick Scott and SEO Jeff Atwater joined a band of consumers, business leaders, law enforcement officials, and concerned citizens in Tallahassee on January 25, 2011 to discuss the need to “put the brakes on accident fraud and abuse.”
According to a joint statement filed by the concern parties, “PIP [is] is the domain of those who exploit the broken system in order to enrich themselves at the expense of consumers – further illustrating the the PIP system is long overdue for meaningful reform and the Legislature must act this session to end the nearly $1 billion fraud tax and stop accident fraud.”
The coalition to fight PIP fraud urged lawmakers to include the following reforms in a final bills:

1. Reasonable limitations on attorney’s fees to remove the incentive to file frivolous lawsuits at the expense of Florida drivers.
2. Increased anti-fraud controls to identify suspicious claims and allow insurers time to investigate those claims to avoid unnecessary payments paid by innocent consumers.
3. Enhanced controls on medical costs, through clarification of the medical fee schedule and other tools that rein in high utilization of questionable medical procedures, the costs of which are passed on to consumers.

To learn more about PIP reform and how it will effect you, visit this website.

Picture by Brad McClenny/The Gainesville Sun

It started as an ordinary day for Hugh Suggs. While operating a leaf blower outside of a fast food restaurant in Lake City, a fully loaded log truck jumped the curb and crushed his body.

The front of the truck knocked him down while the four rear wheels rolled over his legs. Suggs said he felt nothing as limbs were crushed and torn from his body.

As he points to his midsection, he tells reporters, “I lost all of my meat here. I think one of my legs was left in the road.

On Thursday, March 1, 168 days after the accident, Suggs finally was able to roll out of the University of Florida Shands rehabilitation center and go home.

As for the truck driver, Suggs says he and the truck driver exchanged glances and nodded at each other right before he took the turn too tight and clobbered Suggs.

On the same day, the driver was charged that day with using unsafe equipment.

Suggs remained unconscious for a number of weeks. His mangled right arm had to be rebuilt, he spent some time in the burn unit to receive skin grafts for the areas that were torn off his body, and the volume of blood transitions he had to receive broke records.