In his latest post to our firm’s Norfolk Injuryboard blog, my colleague Rick Shapiro argues that federal lawmakers and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration must hold makers of generic medications and brand-name drugmakers to the same standards for warning patients about dangerous drug side effects. Rick’s concern over the unequal treatment of the pharmaceutical…
Only the good die young, although not true in every situation it certainly rings true for Jazmine Foreman, a vivacious young woman who had just graduated with honors from Grassfield High School in Chesapeake, Virginia (VA) only days before a terrible car accident took her life. As a Virginia personal injury attorney, as well as…
A 53-year-old man from Newport News, Virginia (VA), pleaded guilty to aggravated involuntary manslaughter on June 22, 2011, after a court heard he was driving under the influence of alcohol. The criminal charge stemmed from an accident that led to the death of a tow-truck driver on the shoulder of Interstate 64 in 2009. View…
Google “drunk driving statistics” and one of the first hits you’ll get is a summary of federal data that states that in 2009, “an estimated 10,839 people … died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes. Drunk driving fatalities accounted for 32 percent of all traffic deaths.” Add in the number of U.S. traffic fatalities caused by people…
Anyone drinking and boating in Virginia during the weekend of June 24-26, 2011, will find themselves targets for VA Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Conservation Police. Over that three-day period, state park and water police will be carrying out Operation Dry Water and ticketing and taking off the water anyone found with a blood…