Santini Personal Injury & Car Accident Law - Florida

09/02/2026

Ethylene oxide emissions cannot simply be treated as someone else’s problem.
Facilities using EtO should have effective pollution controls, reliable monitoring, transparent reporting, and procedures designed to detect problems before nearby families are unknowingly exposed.
People who live, work, attend school, or send their children to daycare near an ethylene oxide facility deserve accurate information about what may be entering the air around them. They should not have to discover years later that emissions may have escaped while a company continued earning profits.
When safety systems fail, the financial benefits remain with the company—but the potential health risks may be absorbed by workers and surrounding communities that never agreed to take them.
Personal injury attorney Frank Santini explains why ethylene oxide emission controls, transparency, and industrial accountability matter.

08/23/2026

Join Florida Attorney Frank Santini in Orlando on Wednesday, August 26 at 6:30 PM for a free public discussion on e-bike crash data and local safety solutions. See you at the Orange County District 5 Neighborhood Advisory Council!

08/15/2026

E-bike use is growing quickly in Florida, but the rules governing where they can be ridden are not always intuitive. This is a helpful overview from Commissioner Kelly Martinez Semrad, particularly the reminder that local restrictions can differ from the general statewide rules.

Where Can You Ride Your E-Bike in Florida? 🚴‍♂️

🛣️ By Florida law, e-bikes have the same rights and rules of the road as traditional bicycles, meaning they can ride on:
- Roadways: Including bike lanes and shoulders
- Multi-use paths and trails: Shared by pedestrians and cyclists
- Sidewalks: Unless prohibited by local ordinances

📍 Some areas may have specific restrictions, including access and speed:
- Parks and conservation areas: E-bike access varies, always check ahead
- Local beaches: Some municipalities ban e-bikes on sand

Always verify local rules before heading out. When in doubt, choose roads or designated bike paths to ride your e-bike! 🚲⚡

08/13/2026

People who lived near an ethylene oxide facility and later developed cancer deserve a serious investigation into whether EtO exposure contributed to their illness.
Living near a facility does not automatically prove that ethylene oxide caused a particular person’s cancer. But when the evidence establishes significant exposure, a medically supported connection, and responsibility on the part of the facility, the people who were harmed deserve justice.
That includes residents, workers, and families who may have been exposed without knowing the risks or having any meaningful ability to protect themselves.
Personal injury attorney Frank Santini, with offices in Florida, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, explains why people harmed by proven ethylene oxide exposure should have the opportunity to hold responsible companies accountable.

08/12/2026

The Supreme Court did not automatically make freight brokers liable whenever a dangerous trucking company causes a crash. But its decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II means brokers may face state-law negligence claims when they allegedly select an unsafe motor carrier.
That gives freight brokers a stronger incentive to investigate the carriers they hire, including federal safety records, inspection history, out-of-service violations, insurance, operating authority, and other warning signs.
As Daryl Dixon understands in The Walking Dead, survival often depends on identifying danger before it reaches you. Freight brokers are now under greater pressure to recognize dangerous carriers before putting them on the road—not necessarily because of altruism, but because ignoring the warning signs may create legal accountability after a serious truck crash.
Truck accident attorney Frank Santini explains why this Supreme Court ruling matters for freight-broker liability and trucking safety.

08/10/2026

The health dangers associated with ethylene oxide did not suddenly appear in 2016.
That year, the EPA finalized an updated scientific assessment concluding that ethylene oxide is carcinogenic to humans when inhaled and substantially revised its estimate of the cancer risk associated with long-term exposure. But federal health assessments and industrial safety concerns involving EtO existed decades earlier.
Companies producing or using ethylene oxide often had access to legal counsel, engineers, industrial hygienists, safety professionals, emissions data, and evolving scientific research. That raises an important question: When did each company understand the risk, and how quickly did it act to install effective scrubbers, filtration systems, leak controls, and emissions monitoring?
The answer must be determined from facility records, internal communications, engineering reports, regulatory filings, and other company-specific evidence. When a business delays reasonable safety improvements while workers and surrounding communities remain exposed, accountability matters.
Personal injury attorney Frank Santini explains why the history of corporate knowledge and pollution-control decisions can be critical in an ethylene oxide exposure investigation.

08/07/2026

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II could bring greater accountability to freight brokers that select unsafe trucking companies.
The Court did not rule that the broker was ultimately negligent or establish a mandatory federal vetting checklist. Instead, it held that federal law does not automatically prevent an injured person from pursuing a state-law claim alleging that a freight broker negligently selected an unsafe motor carrier.
That means a broker’s carrier-selection process may face closer scrutiny after a serious commercial truck accident. Relevant evidence may include the carrier’s federal safety history, inspection record, out-of-service violations, crash history, insurance status, operating authority, and warning signs that should have been investigated before the load was assigned.
Personal injury and truck accident attorney Frank Santini explains why the Montgomery decision matters for freight-broker accountability, trucking safety, and people injured in commercial truck crashes.

08/03/2026

Ethylene oxide, commonly called EtO, plays an important role in sterilizing medical devices that cannot tolerate heat, moisture, or other sterilization methods. Approximately half of all sterile medical devices in the United States are sterilized using EtO.
But ethylene oxide is also a highly reactive chemical that can damage DNA. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classifies EtO as carcinogenic to humans, and long-term inhalation exposure has been associated with increased risks of lymphoid cancers and breast cancer.
The fact that EtO serves an important medical purpose does not eliminate the responsibility of companies using it. Sterilization facilities must maintain effective pollution controls, monitor emissions, protect workers, and prevent surrounding communities from being unnecessarily exposed.
The real issue is not whether medical devices should be safely sterilized. It is whether companies handling a known carcinogen are following the exceptionally high safety standards that such a dangerous chemical demands.
Personal injury attorney Frank Santini explains the balance between the medical need for ethylene oxide sterilization and the potential health risks created by long-term EtO air emissions.

08/02/2026

A Supreme Court ruling will impact your life daily, though it hasn't made headlines. This unanimous 9-0 decision, comparable to Brown v. Board of Education, significantly enhances safety across the nation.

Personal injury attorney Frank Santini, with offices in Florida, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, explains where this ruling fits within the hierarchy of the U.S. court system.

07/31/2026

Truck accident attorney Frank Santini, explains how dangerous trucking companies can attempt to escape their safety history by shutting down and reopening under a new LLC or DOT number.

Some companies hide their dangerous history by shutting down and creating new LLCs. They get a new DOT number, wiping their safety violations clean, only to reappear as 'chameleon carriers.' These operations, with bad drivers and poorly maintained trucks, are a constant threat on our roads, and regular drivers have no way of identifying them.