What Happened: A man was driving his pickup truck in a field when it overturned in Eastern New Kent County. He and a 19-year old girl were in the cab while three others were riding in the truck bed. While driving, the truck overturned causing multiple injuries to the passengers. The 19-year-old girl taken to…
In a new post to our firm’s Railroad Accident/FELA Lawyers Blog, Virginia (VA) personal injury attorney Rick Shapiro reports on an OSHA award to a railroad employee who was illegally retaliated against after reporting unsafe working conditions. To read more, click over to “Norfolk Southern Ordered to Pay $300,000 to Worker It Fired for Reporting…
A head-on collision between a U.S. Postal Service tractor-trailer and a car on North Armistead Avenue in Hampton, Virginia (VA), sent both the truck driver and the woman behind the wheel of the car to hospitals with serious, but not life-threatening, injuries. Police have not filed charges in relation to the August 9, 2012, accident….
What Happened: On Monday, August 6, 2012, a truck overturned on Meadow Rd. in Asheville, NC. Two cars were hit by the rig and the scrap metal it was hauling when the truck crash occurred. Six people, including the truck driver were injured. Police have charged the truck driver who caused the accident with wanton…
What Happened: A NuvaRing injury claim was dismissed by a court because the plaintiff (i.e. the injured victim) waited to file her lawsuit more than two years after her hospitalization for deep vein thrombosis, according to lawyersusaonline.com. The plaintiff took NuvaRing in September of 2004 until she had to go to the hospital due to deep…