On August 21, 2017, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded a 63-year-old California woman $417 million in compensatory and punitive damages in her lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson. The plaintiff is currently bedridden and near death from ovarian cancer that she blames on using…
An elderly woman died on the night of March 13 in York County, Virginia in a three vehicle hit and run crash, the Virginia State Police stated earlier this month. The 81 year old who died in the car accident was Doris J. Wright from…
A bill being considered by the West Virginia House Judiciary Committee would eliminate that state’s Department of Transportation’s Office of Administrative Hearings, moving all of the matters regarding driver’s license suspensions and revocations for DUIs to the state court system. In a hearing hel
The number of drunk driving deaths in the Washington DC metro area fell by double digits in the region in 2015, as there were smaller numbers of DUI crashes and arrests, according to a recent report released in February 2017. The report revealed that alcohol…
A new DUI law signed this month by Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe will establish new procedures for drunk driving cases in the Commonwealth. The new law was passed after the US Supreme Court issued a new ruling last year that pointed out the differences between…
Two women died and a third was seriously injured after a car hit three pedestrians in Bland County, Virginia on Feb. 19. Virginia State Police have charged a 27 year old male driver with three felony counts of hit-and-run, one count of reckless driving and one…
A 2014 Kenworth tractor trailer rear ended a Volkswagen on Route 58 in Greensville County on Dec. 31, Virginia, causing the car to veer off the road and slam into a tree. The front seat passenger, Sandra Kennedy, 61, in the VW was seriously…
A man in North Carolina who had two DWI convictions on his record was arrested this week for a head on drunk driving crash in Concord that killed a woman and severely injured her passenger. Lydia Christine Velasques died when the alleged drunk driver, John…
Richmond, Virginia residents whose lives have been shattered by drunk drivers met on the evening of November 21 to remember their loved ones who have been killed on Virginia’s roads by drunk drivers. Some of the families meet each year under Christmas lights at Lewis…
Just a day before their Thanksgiving break, a bus holding 35 children crashed into a tree in Chattanooga, Tennessee on Nov. 21, killing six elementary school children and leaving 24 others with injuries ranging from non-life threatening to serious. Local police immediately placed the bus…
A jury in St. Louis, Missouri awarded over $70 million in damages to a woman who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer after using baby powder and other talc-containing products manufacturered by Johnson & Johnson for decades. The jury determined that Johnson & Johnson failed to warn…
Virginia State Police stated that a nine-year old child who was a passenger in a car with a drunk driver has died. The crash happened in late August in Halifax County, Virginia. The child, Julian Suttle, died on Aug. 30 at Duke Medical Center. The…
