A bill making its way through the 2012 Virginia General Assembly would require first-time drunk driving offenders to have a breath-test machine installed in their vehicles if a court restricts…
The recent settlement of four wrongful death lawsuits brought by family members of military contractors killed in Fallujah, Iraq, during March 2004 for about 2 percent of the $30 million…
Microwavable soup containers are causing burns to toddlers and adults, according to doctors working in hospital emergency rooms. What follows is a friendly discussion between two tort experts at…
The National Transportation Safety Board on December 13, 2011, made a welcome, and long-overdue, recommendation to ban all cell phone use by drivers. The trigger for the statement were…
TCE, PERC and CCL4 just sound bad for a person. Given their full chemical names of trichloroethylene, perchloroethylene and carbon tetrachloride, the widely used solvents prove no healthier than…
Station construction and Norfolk Southern track improvements designed to allow Amtrak to resume passenger rail service to Norfolk, Virginia (VA), by October 2013 are under way. In fact, if all…
As experienced personal injury lawyers with offices in Virginia (VA) and North Carolina (NC), we have been involved in cases in which railroad workers have been exposed to asbestos and have…
Conrad Murray is going to prison because his patient, King of Pop Michael Jackson, died after overdosing on the powerful anesthetic drug propofol (Diprivan from AstraZeneca). The jurors who decided…
There is a traffic accident every 23 minutes in Hampton Roads. But even with 23,142 crashes occuring in thecities and surroig areas of Chesapeake, Hampton, Norfolk, Newport News, Portsmouth, Suffolk…
Imagine being shocked by a power line carrying more than twice the votage used to executed a prisoner in an electric chair, but surviving. That’s exactly what happened to a man in Greene County,…
A personal injury that results in the loss or paralysis of a limb is one of the most profound injuries a person can suffer. But there is good news. Bioengineers is making strides in developing…
Red light running is the cause of numerous accidents, often wrecking the lives of victims and those behind the wheel. But cities are fighting back by opting for PhotoSafe enforcement cameras on…
