Yesterday in Charlotte, North Carolina (NC), a man died when he lost control of his pickup truck. The accident happened around 3:30 on Bellhaven Boulevard. Officers say the 39-year-old man ran off the right side of the road, lost control of his Nissan pickup, and crashed into three trees. Rescue workers say he died at the scene….
In his latest post to our firm’s Norfolk Injuryboard blog, my colleague John C. offers essential tips for boaters and riders of personal watercraft such as Jet Skis. John notes that avoiding drowning and injuries on the water is often as simple as not drinking and boating and always wearing a properly fitted life jacket. EJL
A new kind of hip replacement device cleared for marketing in the United States in 2003 came with the promise of better performance, longer useful life and fewer post-surgery complications than earlier models of the medical device that some 120,000 Americans have implanted each year. Those promises soon became nightmares for as many 13 percent…
APM Terminals in Portsmouth, Virginia (VA), saw its seventh on-the-job fatality in the past six years on March 28, 2011, when a forklift driver drove over a stevedore. The accident took the life of 38-year-old Ceres Marine Terminals employee Paula Bellamy. She was struck by containers being carried on the fork while she was guiding…
A new trend in emergency rooms may reduce misdiagnosis of elderly patients. A few new hospitals are opening ERs specially designed for seniors, without all the confusion and clamor and with a little more comfort. But the real question is whether they’ll truly improve care. Misdiagnosis is when the physician doesn’t realize that the patient…