Years of effort to take much of the value out of a federal regulation requiring U.S. railroads to install life-saving technology on trains and along tracks paid off for the Association of…
The seemingly obvious answer to the question posed in the title would be Uninsured motorist coverage pays when the person who caused a car accident and injuries or death can't. The reason an…
Residents of Elmira, New York (NY), claim there is no safe place to cross train tracks near Southside High School. Perhaps illustrating this more tragically than anyone wanted, a man has been…
In a significant ruling for people who become sick with incurable lung problems after being exposed to asbestos at work, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in February 2012 upheld a plaintiff's…
On first read, the headline seems to make no sense. But when one considers the reasoning of a New York (NY) criminal court judge in acquitting a bus driver of four counts of criminally negligent…
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…
