As more and more young women are pursuing careers and higher education they are turning towards birth control to postpone having a family. 2.3 American women are currently taken oral contraceptives often called “the pill.” Modern medicine has created a number of different types of oral contraceptives that women can take and most are very safe and…
In a perfect world, all police officers would retire or leave the force on their own terms. But as we all know, it’s not a perfect world. On December, 20, 2011, the Chesapeake, Virginia (VA), Police Department lost a brave officer, Timothy Schock, during routine water search-and-rescue dive training. Members of the Chesapeake police dive team were conducting exercises…
A parent’s worst nightmare may well be getting a call from police telling them that their child has been injured or killed. Sadly, the parent’s of a 17-year old Virginia Beach, VA, boy received that call in early December 2011 and will be mourning instead of celebrating during the holiday season. The teen was killed…
The federal appeals court in Norfolk, Virginia (VA), on December 8, 2011, upheld a $900,000 malpractice award a woman from Portsmouth had won from Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center. In the original case, stemming from a botched Caesarean section conducted to deliver the woman’s fourth child in 2005, the woman and her Norfolk attorney, Kim Michelle…
My colleague Emily Mapp Brannon has written a new post for our firm’s Virginia Beach, Chesapeake and Suffolk Injuryboard blog site about a 5-year-old North Carolina (NC) girl who suffered brain damage after she fell and pieces of the hair clip she was wearing embedded in her skull. DM