I’ll keep this post short, writing little more than my insistence that if you watch no other documentary this year, you make the time to watch Hot Coffee. The film debuts on HBO, Monday, June 27,…
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 23, 2011, published a 5-4 decision in favor the generic drugmaker Pliva that many commentators are calling a pass on side effect warnings. I lean toward a less dire…
A punch to the back of the head may have caused a deadly car accident in 2009, according to testimony in a trial this week. The Virginian-Pilot has reported that driver Richard B. Freeman was…
In a major defeat for CSX and other railroad companies that have long attempted to curtail rail employees’ protections under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, or FELA, the U.S. Supreme Court…
Accidents between large commercial trucks and passenger cars generally spell bad news for the passenger car. Fortunately, large commercial trucks are only involved in about 2.4 percent of all car…
Earlier this month a tragic bus crash on I-95 north of Richmond, Virginia (VA), left four women dead and over 50 injured victims. The accident involved a bus owned by the discount bus company Sky…
Phillip Shucet, the president and CEO of Hampton Roads Transit wants adjustments made to the safety and communications systems of the new light-rail system in Norfolk, Virginia (VA), so the trains…
A serious car and pickup truck accident on I-64 near Oyster Point Road in Newport News, Virginia (VA), led to the death of a woman named Pennie Hampton. The car in front of her, a Mercury Tracer,…
Patients injured by medical mistakes and families who lose loved ones following a misdiagnosis or surgical mistake often wait years for their personal injury claims to work their way through the…
Welcome solutions to problems that probably should not have arisen are currently being implemented across the United States through a public-private initiative called the Partnership for…
A Virginia Tech professor is advancing research to reduce football brain injuries, according to Daily Press. The professor of biomedical engineering at Virginia Tech might not have all the answers…
Budget concerns in Norfolk, Virginia (VA), may stop red light cameras from going up, according to WAVY-TV 10. Norfolk, Virginia City Council approved the red light cameras in December 2011 to…