Since 1985, the lawyers affiliated with Shapiro, Washburn & Sharp have dedicated their practice to helping people when they need it most. Our clients are usually down and out after an accident, struggling financially, physically, and emotionally.
Mark Schneider will spend a year in jail after drunkenly hitting pedestrian Irene Carson last Christmas Eve, a Williamsburg-James City County circuit court judge ruled this week. Schneider, 39,…
The system that failed is the behind-the-scenes communication network the Federal Aviation Administration uses to track flight times and paths, The New York Times reported. Without it,…
The beleaguered Harbor Walk condo project in Norfolk’s Ocean View neighborhood is being taken over by new developer Franciscus Co., months after it was revealed that the old developer –…
In the wake of the tragic death of bicyclist Charles F. McCarty Jr. in August, city officials in Chesapeake (VA) want to lower the speed limit on Johnstown Road, where McCarty was…
Patients with type 2 diabetes run the risk of losing a limb to the disease. Patients taking Avandia–GlaxoSmithKline’s branded version of the medication rosiglitazone–also run the risk of…
I was alarmed to read that 11 members of the King’s Fork High School field hockey team got injured when their school bus ran off the road in Isle of Wight, Virginia (VA), on Monday night. I was…
Exposure to Harmful Substances and Environments. Contact with Objects and Equipment. Transportation Incidents. These are the rather neutral categories the Virginia (VA) Department of Labor and…
Sunday’s Daily Press delivered the unwelcome news that the Chesapeake Bay and rivers and lakes throughout Virginia (VA) had already seen more accidents this year than during all of 2008. Worse, the…
Southampton County Sheriff’s Deputy Christopher Ray – on the job less than three months – died in the early hours of Saturday morning when the patrol car he was riding in crashed into a…
Parents were warned this week about the dangers of Simplicity bassinets in the wake of two more infant deaths, the Associated Press reported. The infants died after they were trapped in Simplicity…
Investigators believe an electrical problem caused a home fire Wednesday morning that killed Sandra Dudley, the Daily Press reported. A Dominion Virginia Power meter reader, spotting smoke coming…
The bad news continues for public transportation in and around the D.C. area. After the worst D.C. Metro crash in history, which killed nine people and injured over 40, and two embarrassing…
