Randy Appleton has decades of experience practicing personal injury law. He has handled complex injury lawsuits in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Tennessee State Rep. JoAnne Favors is using a bill that was written in 2015 in response to a fatal Knoxville, Tennessee school bus crash as the starting point to address safety concerns regarding lack of seatbelts in Hamilton County TN school buses. The bus crash in…
Fluvanna County, Virginia Sheriff Eric Hess is urging county residents and truckers to drive with more caution after a terrible Jan. 24 truck crash near Bremo Bluff. The Virginia State Police reported that the deadly tractor trailer crash happened that day at 9:10 am when a big…
A Williams & Connolly senior attorney in Washington DC has sued the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority for $50 million, stemming from a Metro station head injury that he claims left him unable to work. The attorney claims that he has not been able to…
One person died and two others were hurt in a rear end crash with a dump truck in Virginia Beach on Dec. 29. Virginia Beach police stated that the dump truck accident happened at 10 am in the 2800 block of Princess Anne Road in…
A 22 year old woman died in a single car accident in Centreville, Virginia on Dec. 22, and a man was charged with DUI for allegedly causing the accident. The alleged DUI driver was speeding in the southbound lane of Ordway Road in Centreville at…
Two people were killed and more than a dozen other victims were injured in a grisly tractor trailer accident in Baltimore when a gas tanker skidded on the icy road and exploded. The fatal truck crash happened early Saturday morning on Interstate 95. Bad weather…
Federal law requires hospitals to report any serious injury which was potentially caused by a medical device to the manufacturer of that device within 10 days the injury occurred. Hospitals are also required to notify both the manufacturer and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
Two people died in a crash with a tractor trailer on Route 58 West in Suffolk, Virginia on Dec. 1. The Virginia State Police stated that the driver and passenger were driving on Route 58 West when a tractor trailer did not stop at a stop…
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) recently ranked the 50 state’s DWI or DUI laws in an annual survey. It concluded that Mississippi has the toughest overall drunk driving laws, and Maryland and Nebraska also come out on top. The report judges the adequacy of each…
The Virginia State Police stated that there was a deadly two car crash in Augusta County VA on Oct. 11 on Route 11 and Stagecoach Road. The police reported that a Toyota 4Runner was driving north on Highway 11 when it drifted into the southbound…
The South Carolina State Police reported Oct. 23 that a nine-year old girl died in a multiple vehicle crash that involved a drunk driver. Six people were taken to a local hospital with minor to serious injuries after the DUI crash in North Charleston, South…
At least 13 people are dead and dozens more seriously injured after a tour bus crashed into a tractor-trailer in Palm Springs, California Sunday morning. The fatal crash occurred at approximately 5 a.m. on Interstate 10. Law enforcement statements indicated that speed was the cause…
