My colleague Rick Shapiro has put an new post on our firm’s Hampton Car & Truck Accident blog about a pedestrian who was hit by a car at the intersection of Floyd Thompson Drive and Magruder Boulevard in Hampton, Virginia (VA). The women suffered serious injuries and was taken to the hospital in stable condition. View…
In his latest post to our firm’s Norfolk Injuryboard blog site, my colleague Rick Shapiro comments on the involuntary manslaughter conviction of Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray. Rick notes that any physician who demonstrates gross negligence, especially by misadministering a dangerous prescription drug such as propofol (Diprivan from AstraZeneca), can and should be found criminally…
Electrical worker Justin “Brent” Carrick wound up trapped under an 80,000 pound slab of concrete after a truck crash on I-85 near Poplar Tent Road in Cabarrus County, North Carolina (NC), when the truck he was driving hit the back of a wide-load trailer carrying the slab. View Larger Map Surprisingly, Carrc suffered only a broken…
Authorities are investigating a crash between a fire truck and a car at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront shortly before 10 pm on November 5, 2011. Firefighters was responding to a transformer fire when their truck crashed into a car at 19th Street and Pacific Avenue. Four people in the car were rushed to a hospital…
Emergency rooms form misusing the prescription muscle relaxant carisoprodol (Soma from Meda Parmaceuticals) increased from 15,830 to 31,763 between 2004 and 2009, according to a new report from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Carisoprodol becomes epecially dangerous when taken in combination with narcotic painkillers and illegal drugs or alcohol, according to its labeling. “We’re…