The second wrongful death lawsuit to come out of a fatal 2009 truck crash in Woodstock, Virginia (VA), has been settled between the administrator of the victim’s estate, the truck driver and the company that operated the vehicle involved in the crash. The suit was filed on behalf of the estate of 27-year-old Hilario Guox…
A Madera County jury awarded $2 million to the family of a woman killed in an accident at the intersection of Highway 41 and Road 416 on July 5, 2008.On Jan. 27, the jury found that the intersection was a dangerous condition of public property. The verdict ended a four-week Madera County Superior Court trial…
The Highway Patrol is investigating a one-vehicle wreck that required the driver to be airlifted from Onslow County, North Carolina (N.C.) to Pitt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville. Trooper J.L. Morton says 27-year-old Ruben Lopez Camacho ran a stop sign at the intersection of Francktown Rd. and Cow Horn Rd. in Richlands, North Carolina (N.C.)…
In his latest post to our firm’s Norfolk Injury Board, my colleague Randy Appleton notes that a rail safety and injury attorney in our office was recently interviewed by a reporter for WVEC, the local ABC TV affiliate, about the need for an automatic emergency braking system for the HRT Tide light-rail system in Norfolk,…
Decades of evidence that the narcotic painkiller propoxyphene caused irregular heartbeats in users that were so severe some people taking the medication died suddenly from heart attacks prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ask drug makers to pull their propoxyphene products from the market in November 2010. The leading manufacturer of the drug,…