A jury in Wilkes County, North (NC), on May 27, 2011, awarded $7 million to the family of Victoria Lynn Brown Harmon. The woman, who was a special education teacher, died from surgical complications and infections following a botched hysterectomy in the spring of 2007, prompting her survivors to bring a medical malpractice and wrongful…
A truck driver has been cleared of blame in a fatal West Virginia truck accident where a woman stalled her car on the highway and was rear-ended by a big rig.
In his latest post to our firm’s Norfolk Injuryboard blog, my colleague Rick Shapiro reports on a promising new approach to resolving medical malpractice lawsuits quickly and fairly for injured patients and family members whose loved one died as a result of a medical mistake. The innovation, called judge-directed negotiation, resembles mediation and allows plaintiffs’…
A dump truck overturned in Hampton, Virginia (VA), on June 14, 2011, hitting numerous vehicles and leaving three people injured.Two people were transported to a local hospital by ambulance and a third person was evacuated by medical helicopter after the dump truck overturned, the Daily Press reported. Police said the dump truck driver was heading…
The American Association for Justice analyzed a recent firm verdict for a railroad worker wrongful death case. To learn more, read this blog.