A collision between a public school bus and a pickup truck in Suffolk, Virginia (VA), sent six children and one adult to the hospital. The crash occurred on Nansemond Parkway near Milum Road on the afternoon of March 23, 2015. Treated for non-life-threatening injuries were children traveling home from Nansemond Parkway Elementary School and the…
Get ready for a long and complicated answer to the pretty simple question, “How safe are school buses in Virginia?” We’ll start with the good news. Buses, and the children who ride them to and from school, sporting events and extracurricular activities, crash less often than cars, trucks, motorcycles and bicycles. During the 2019-2020 school…
Receiving a breast cancer diagnosis can be one of the most frightening things a woman can hear in her lifetime. But as North Carolina medical malpractice lawyers we know that even worse is to not be diagnosed or to have a wrong diagnosis when you really do have cancer. Below is a real story from…
When many people envision how they will die, very few imagine it will be at the hands of a doctor. However in North Carolina that is the case for many victims of medical malpractice. A psychiatrist and professor at Duke University recently wrote this about medical malpractice: “I have a friend who has lung cancer…
Invisible to the Eye George R.R. Martin once said, “The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.” This is the case for railroad workers that fall victim to mesothelioma cancer caused by asbestos. The serious health risks associated with inhaling asbestos fibers have been documented in medical and scientific publications. Railroad workers who breathe in…