How liable are rail operators for the life-threatening illnesses their employees develop? This question is always difficult to answer because each case requires individual consideration. In what looks to be the latest opportunity to explore this issue, 25-year Union Pacific brakeman and conductor Brad Thompson has sued his former employer in Illinois (IL), claiming that…
Homes throughout the country, including homes in Carolina, have taken on a dubious nickname – “cancer traps” – due to toxic Chinese drywall. Our law firm has written extensively about toxic Chinese drywall and what’s so discouraging is the fact that no one can truly quantify the extent of the problem. The only consensus for…
When two Virginia (VA) state police cruisers were struck on Monday, my colleague Jim Lewis wondered whether the state’s new law requiring drivers to slow down or change lanes to give police and emergency workers safe room to work was doing enough. Check out his post on the Norfolk Injuryboard. About the Editors: Shapiro, Washburn…
The debate over health care reform has taken many unusual twists and turns including talk of death panels and forced euthanasia. Such nonsense has predominantly been dismissed, but one issue remains prevalent in the public discourse over reforming the U.S. health care system: medical tort reform. It’s a popular talking point many opponents of proposed…
On August 9, 2009, tow truck driver, Andy Craig Starmer, was hooking up a car to his truck around 8:24 p.m. He was on the shoulder of I-64 when he was hit by Charles Burns, who was driving a Mitsubishi Raider. Starmer was outside of his truck when he was killed. Burns was taken to…