Health and Medicine           

• Nursing Home Search - Search HCFA's National Nursing Home Database for information and inspection results for nursing homes in all states.
  
• Guide to Florida Nursing Homes - Provided by Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, the 2001 Guide gives practical information to patients seeking nursing home services, and provides summaries of inspection results.
  
• Florida Nursing Home Guide Watch List - Quarterly lists of Florida nursing homes that failed to meet, or correct upon follow-up, minimum standards at the time of the state's annual inspection.
  
• Assisted Living Facility Directory - Listing of ALF's licensed by the State of  Florida.
  
• Assisted Living Facility Laws and Rules - Provides the laws and rules that govern the operation of ALF's and provide the legal rights of residents.
  
• Health Licensee Information - Search for information on health care practitioners licensed by the State of Florida.  ("Cookies" must be enabled for this site to work)
  
• Physician Profiling - From the Florida Department of Health, provides background information on physicians, including liability claims and final disciplinary actions. The site has a caveat that "UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, THIS INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY THE PRACTITIONER AND HAS NOT BEEN VERIFIED BY THE DEPARTMENT" ("Cookies" must be enabled for this site to work)
  
• Professional Liability Closed Claims - Search for Florida closed malpractice and professional liability claims against doctors, hospitals, HMO's and more.
  
• AMA Physician Select - Search for a physician by name or specialty at this site from the American Medical Association.
  
• American Board of Medical Specialties - Search by name or medical specialty to determine certification of a physician.
  
• Healthgrades - Searchable ratings of doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, health plans and more.

  Consumer Products / Product Safety

• U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission - Lists recalls of unsafe products by product, category or company. Also has safety tips for a wide variety of products.
• Consumer Resource Handbook - Provides advice and consumer tips on: car repair, purchase, and leasing; shopping from home; avoiding consumer and investment fraud; home improvement and financing; choosing and using credit cards wisely; and much more.
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Use the 'Search' function to find recalls on food, drugs and cosmetics.
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - Information on car recalls.
• The Safety Forum - Information on consumer products, environmental safety, hazardous practices, medicine and medical safety, and occupational safety.

 Automobiles

• Automobile Insurance Guide - From the Florida Department of Insurance, provides an excellent guide to auto insurance policies in Florida.
• Florida's Lemon Law - From the Office of the Attorney General, a description of how Florida's new car 'Lemon Law' can protect you.
• Lemon Check - By using the VIN number, find out whether a particular car has ever been repurchased by the manufacturer and reported to a state agency as a lemon.
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - Provides a wealth of information on such topics as crashworthiness, car recalls and child passenger safety. 
• Highway Loss Data Institute - Site has automobile crashworthiness ratings by make, model and year.
• Kelley Blue Book - Check on the trade-in or retail value of a car or motorcycle.
• NADA Guides - Another free guide to values of cars, also covers planes and boats.

 Law Directories and Legal Resources

• Florida Legal Resources - From the Open Directory Project, links to statutes, cases, codes and more.
• Florida Government Links - Extensive directory of Florida government sites and links to legislators.
• FindLaw - Online case law, statutes and codes available without a fee. Links to law schools, law reviews, federal and state legal resources and more.
• Legal Information Institute - From Cornell Law school, another fine source of state and federal law.
• 'Lectric Law Library - Go to the 'Rotunda' for a listing of all that this witty site has to offer. The 'Laypeople's Law Lounge' has a broad range of consumer oriented articles.
• Nolo's Law Dictionary - Good translations of legal terms. Their encyclopedia is also well done.
• WWW Virtual Law Library - A comprehensive resource for legal topics from the Indiana University School of Law.