Speaker 1: Time for law and disorder.
Speaker 2: I demand a lawyer with attorney Jeff Kaufman on one
Speaker 2: oh one to one w JRR.
Speaker 1: To Orlando's rock station, Jeff Kaufman from Kaufman and Lynn Fine,
Speaker 1: Personal Injury Firm here in Central Florida. If you or
Speaker 1: someone you know has been injured in a car accident,
Speaker 1: slip and fall, whatever the circumstances may be, and you
Speaker 1: think you might need legal representation, might not be bad
Speaker 1: to grab the ear of Jeff and run your situation
Speaker 1: by him.
Speaker 2: Many ways to get in touch with them, Jeff at
Speaker 2: whenuned us dot com as his direct email as Jeff
Speaker 2: at when you need us dot com pound five four
Speaker 2: to six on your cell or four zero seven five hundred, Jeff. I, Uh,
Speaker 2: just before we went on the air, I had been
Speaker 2: entertaining the idea of going to see Joker too.
Speaker 1: But after you just pretty much blew the thing out
Speaker 1: of the water here, Uh, I think I'm going to
Speaker 1: go ahead and mendos plans. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We took about eight hundred people. A couple of year
Speaker 3: lesteners showed up for that one on Thursday, and you know,
Speaker 3: normally I would say, hey, listen, it's not my opinion.
Speaker 3: But it was like a funeral leaving this place. I
Speaker 3: mean I had to I had to apologize people for
Speaker 3: their loss. It was it was and I'm you know,
Speaker 3: I'm into this stuff. It just was something and it
Speaker 3: might be your taste. There might be people out there,
Speaker 3: because I think one out of every hundred people tell me,
Speaker 3: oh my god, Jeff, it was great.
Speaker 1: I'm going, wow, you're a dark person.
Speaker 2: I've heard it basically how you said it was a
Speaker 2: steaming pile.
Speaker 3: He realized this, if you're not in the mood for
Speaker 3: a musical and a depressed music where they sang like
Speaker 3: songs from the fifties, you might.
Speaker 1: Want to not go. Just say hey, I saw this.
Speaker 1: I thought of you immediately. Boy, what a lucrative case
Speaker 1: this is going to be. There's a mega mall in
Speaker 1: New Jersey called the American Dream Mall. American Dream Mega
Speaker 1: Mall one of the biggest, second biggest mall. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: now three lawsuits against them by mall patrons who have
Speaker 1: been injured by motorized plush animals, which I guess you
Speaker 1: can rent out. Yeah, they're little kids things. They've had
Speaker 1: them for years. Yeah, well they're little.
Speaker 3: I mean when I say, they don't move that they're
Speaker 3: they're like electric and kids the little kids ride them,
Speaker 3: and they're tiny.
Speaker 1: I guess they're big enough to knock over a pregnant
Speaker 1: or a woman who recently gave birth to a baby
Speaker 1: and was holding the baby. Oh god, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Well what happens is it's probably an independent contractor who's
Speaker 3: renting those things.
Speaker 1: I can't believe them all would even sign off on
Speaker 1: this idea. In this stage you did them.
Speaker 3: They had one at the UH which is the one
Speaker 3: with the Bass Pro Shop in it International or whatever
Speaker 3: called Desi Worlds.
Speaker 1: Oh yea, yeah they changed these Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: That's they used to have those all over and my
Speaker 3: son used like when they were little, my kids when
Speaker 3: they were like these or five, they used to write them. Really,
Speaker 3: I mean they were just little plushes. I mean they're
Speaker 3: just they don't move fast, like five miles an hour,
Speaker 3: and they're just like I mean people, you don't really
Speaker 3: race them.
Speaker 2: I mean maybe they jacked these things up. Two dose know,
Speaker 2: this is the second biggest mall in the country. You
Speaker 2: have to do something to get people to come to malls, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean malls are dying.
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, I just saw something the other day
Speaker 3: about these malls, and you know you have a problem
Speaker 3: when people have to rent these places. So some of
Speaker 3: these places of upwards to three hundred stores in it,
Speaker 3: and look at all the death to retail lately.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're good. They're supposed toly.
Speaker 2: We reported about a year ago they're making pickleball courts
Speaker 2: and a lot of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What do we got from the listeners this morning? Two? Two? Hey, Jeff.
Speaker 2: Recently, my work sent a memo saying that even if
Speaker 2: you work through lunch and don't clock out, they will
Speaker 2: still take the hour from your paycheck.
Speaker 1: Is that legal?
Speaker 3: First off, you can't work over time without getting paid.
Speaker 3: But here's the caveat. They tell you to take a
Speaker 3: lunch and you arbitrarily choose not to, or you forget
Speaker 3: to clock out or something else like that. I've seen
Speaker 3: people get fired for that. Or I said, listen, we're
Speaker 3: not paying you overtime. We don't want you to work
Speaker 3: during this time. Don't work. So if I were, you
Speaker 3: take unless they're telling you you can't clock out, take
Speaker 3: the lunch, you take your lunch. But if they're a
Speaker 3: wink wink, Yeah, this is supposed to be for lunch
Speaker 3: and they're insinuating that you should be working.
Speaker 1: That's another problem.
Speaker 3: That's a problem. Definitely don't do with that, you know. So, yes,
Speaker 3: you can't. When you're on the clock. You're on the clock.
Speaker 3: They can't tell you to How can I say it?
Speaker 3: Not be on the clock?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right? Could you prefer to work the traditional
Speaker 1: nine to five day or with an hour for lunch
Speaker 1: which means you only get paid for seven hours, or
Speaker 1: would you rather be a nine to six where you
Speaker 1: actually work eight hours and get an hour for lunch.
Speaker 3: Well, some people do the half hour lunches, Like in
Speaker 3: my office, people choose they go, well, I want the
Speaker 3: full hour, I want a half hour. I mean it's
Speaker 3: all over the place with that stuff.
Speaker 1: Sometimes, what about you, lecher? Now? Would I would want
Speaker 1: the full forty? So I'm buying up for the.
Speaker 2: Okay, landlord didn't renew lease before selling his property. Didn't
Speaker 2: let anybody know. Now the new company's raising our rent
Speaker 2: over one hundred dollars? Is there any way to fight this?
Speaker 3: What you're saying is that the new place is bound
Speaker 3: by the lease that's concurrent. But if the lease has expired,
Speaker 3: then yeah they can they can charge you whatever they
Speaker 3: want to based on the lease itself. The lease says
Speaker 3: hold over tenants or the next lease, and it doesn't
Speaker 3: discuss how much the next term is. Then you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to pay what the person says it is MM.
Speaker 1: So that sucks.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, yeah, but that's you know that I have
Speaker 3: that issue too. You know, I also sow Lisa condo
Speaker 3: and I have to make normally like four or five
Speaker 3: months ahead of time.
Speaker 1: I ask, because moving is a paint.
Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah, Hey, Jeff, my plaintiff attorney lost my
Speaker 2: case on an MSJ hearing.
Speaker 1: Is it worth an appeal? Trip? Oh? Appeal trip? In
Speaker 1: fall case? Okay.
Speaker 3: MSA means motion for summary judgment. It means that the
Speaker 3: other side is saying in the you know, they get
Speaker 3: to win before you go to trial. And it's basically
Speaker 3: based on the concept that, uh, it's a legal issue,
Speaker 3: meaning that the judge has ruled that said, hey, listen,
Speaker 3: even a jury, this doesn't have to go to a jury.
Speaker 3: So it happens all the time. For example, a slip
Speaker 3: and fall. A lot of times it deals with what
Speaker 3: they call viscarcity, meaning you know how slippery the floor is.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of times.
Speaker 3: Else they'll find that the person has cleaned it within
Speaker 3: a period of time and it falls under this. I mean,
Speaker 3: just because you slipped and falled and something doesn't mean
Speaker 3: that the person's responsible and stay of Florida. They they say,
Speaker 3: if it was cleaned up or checked within a certain
Speaker 3: period of time, you know, then the place is okay.
Speaker 3: So if I have to guess it had something to
Speaker 3: do with they found out later and were able to
Speaker 3: prove that they had checked and clean the area within
Speaker 3: a reasonable amount of time. So I think that's probably
Speaker 3: what happened to you, And very rarely can that be
Speaker 3: appealed in that in cases like.
Speaker 2: That, somebody texted about the Joker movie said, thank you Kaufman.
Speaker 2: We still enjoyed a night out. Even though the movie
Speaker 2: was a little on the poor side. It's okay. Just
Speaker 2: didn't like the ending. I was wondering if I could.
Speaker 3: I wanted to super fraud because I've spent a lot
Speaker 3: of money on that movie and I wanted to go
Speaker 3: somebody should write me a check.
Speaker 1: Wow, because it was bad in the poor side.
Speaker 3: I think he was being generous when when people came
Speaker 3: by me, they just they had that look in their face, like,
Speaker 3: what did you do to us?
Speaker 1: And I was like, I didn't make the movie. I didn't.
Speaker 3: And the worst thing is the director was the same
Speaker 3: guy who wrote and directed The Hangover. Yeah, how could
Speaker 3: you make a Joker movie? Not funny at all? I
Speaker 3: mean not a single line in that movie you're going, oh,
Speaker 3: that's funny.
Speaker 1: Nothing. And that was from a girl by the way
Speaker 1: that you said when he said, if.
Speaker 2: Your rental becomes unlivable due to storm damage from a hurricane,
Speaker 2: are you still required to pay rent during the time
Speaker 2: you're unable to stay at home?
Speaker 3: It's a tough call. You're dealing with what they call
Speaker 3: active god, and that means that you know, hopefully the
Speaker 3: guy has insurance, hopefully he fixes it within a reasonable
Speaker 3: amount of time, but you know you could be held
Speaker 3: responsible for it. But if he chooses not to fix
Speaker 3: it at an unreasonable time, you know that's on him
Speaker 3: and it could be called what they call a constructive eviction,
Speaker 3: which means that you know, you were basically evicted from
Speaker 3: the benefit of your property.
Speaker 2: Okay, Can I sue the county police for wrongful arrest
Speaker 2: of case that was dismissed during probable cause hearing?
Speaker 1: Wow? That was a lot here. I knew you were
Speaker 1: going to say that, because it's just the way.
Speaker 3: What what she's asking for is this is that you
Speaker 3: know the police weren't aware that the warrant in the
Speaker 3: system was wrong. You have to show that they did
Speaker 3: something and they acted unreasonably. In the situation, you might
Speaker 3: be able to go after the person who put something
Speaker 3: in the system that was wrong, but good luck trying
Speaker 3: to find them. I mean, police are doing their job
Speaker 3: on the most part. When they pull you over and
Speaker 3: it's in the computer, if it says something, you know
Speaker 3: they act on it. Unless the police officer knew that
Speaker 3: this warrant was bad or something else like that. But
Speaker 3: it does sound like you know that they were acting
Speaker 3: in good you know, with reasonable.
Speaker 1: Knowledge.
Speaker 2: Okay, don't forget to get in touch with Jeff directly
Speaker 2: for personal injury questions.
Speaker 1: It's Jeff at when you need us dot com.
Speaker 2: Can I lose my job if I join the Coastguard
Speaker 2: Reserves and have to go to training for three weeks?
Speaker 3: Normally companies have to How can I say, make accommodations
Speaker 3: for you when you're in the military. I don't know
Speaker 3: how big this company is. I don't know their rules.
Speaker 3: I mean, you did this after you took the job,
Speaker 3: so they might say, yes, you changed you know, your
Speaker 3: agreement with us by you know, not being available for
Speaker 3: your job.
Speaker 1: So you're basically saying that may be something. If you're
Speaker 1: entertaining the idea of doing that, find out either ahead
Speaker 1: of time.
Speaker 3: What the policy of the business, or talk to your
Speaker 3: current players say hey, I'm thinking of doing this. Yeah,
Speaker 3: some places are This is a difference between being you know,
Speaker 3: brought into combat where they say, hey, listen, you know
Speaker 3: they have to keep your job open, or something like this.
Speaker 3: This is you joining after you were in the company,
Speaker 3: And honestly, I don't think you're covered in this situation
Speaker 3: like this, all right, I know that sucks, and I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I don't mean to it seems like bad news Hurricane Monday.
Speaker 3: I wish I could say, I wish I could say,
Speaker 3: everybody's got a case.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing about the law. People don't get. You know,
Speaker 3: you can get an accident and still not you know,
Speaker 3: the law still might not cover you because there are
Speaker 3: rules of wall. Like I said, slip and falls are
Speaker 3: really based on you know a lot of rules. And
Speaker 3: now in the state of Florida. This is the way
Speaker 3: this works as of about a year and a half ago,
Speaker 3: is that if whatever act sitting you're in, if your
Speaker 3: if you could be found fifty percent or more responsible
Speaker 3: for your injury, you get nothing. Florida used to be
Speaker 3: a completely comparative negligent state, which means, let's say they
Speaker 3: were they were twenty five percent responsible, they'd be responsible
Speaker 3: for twenty five percent. But the Congress Florida Congress got
Speaker 3: in with the insurance companies and changed that rule. Now
Speaker 3: so now slipping falls and premises cases like property cases,
Speaker 3: are a lot harder to prove because companies are more
Speaker 3: likely to fight things where they can wait a minute,
Speaker 3: we have a shot, you know, and we.
Speaker 1: Didn't get to your question this morning. We'll set them
Speaker 1: aside and get in front of Jeff nexico around or
Speaker 1: you can reach out to him directly this week and
Speaker 1: he cannot touch.
Speaker 2: You that way told you his email direct email is
Speaker 2: Jeff at when you need US dot com. That's Jeff
Speaker 2: at when you need US dot com. Or you can
Speaker 2: do pound five four six on your cell or get
Speaker 2: them called directly at four zero seven five hundred. Jeff
Speaker 2: takes care of yourself, and park your cars a little
Speaker 2: higher than you used to, because that water is gonna
Speaker 2: come in and it'll be over your car before you
Speaker 2: know it.
Speaker 1: Jeff Kaufman from Kaufman and Lynd Appreciate it, Jeff. Anytime
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