Richard Broward, a 61-year-old man, was going about business as a truck driver unloading concrete slabs for Mack Transport, Inc. when his life came to an abrupt end. How? One of the 3500-pound concrete slabs fell off Richard’s truck and crushed him, according to the Detroit Free Press. This is a terrible accident and my deepest…
Labor Day Weekend highlighted poor driving in Virginia (VA). 13 people were killed in car accidents, nearly double the number killed in 2008, according to WSLS. In addition to the high death toll, nearly 10,000 speeding tickets were administered along with over 2,500 reckless driving citations, 90 drivers arrested for impaired driving, and over 800…
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…
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…
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…