My colleague Emily Brannon has reported our firm’s North Carolina Injuryboard blog site that two pedestrians wearing headphones lost their lives when they walked into the paths of vehicles they did not see or hear coming. Wearing headphones has increased pedestrian fatalities. LC
My colleague Emily Brannon has posted a new blog on our firm’s Virginia (VA) personal injury attorneys’ website about a recall of frog masks made in China because children can suffocate while wearing the masks. About 3,400 units of the product were sold exclusively by Target. DM
Four nearly simultaneous crashes all but shut down I-77 through Charlotte, North Carolina (NC), during evening rush hour on October 19, 2011. Two accidents occurred in the northbound lanes between the exits for Remount Road and the John Belk Freeway and left two people injured. A third accident with injuries occurred near Tyvola Road, and traffic became even…
Questions about the training and qualifications of the pilot of a Colgan Air plane that crashed near Buffalo, New York (NY) in 2009, have been raised by attorneys in the course of wrongful death lawsuits brought by family members of the victims. Emails released by plaintiffs’ attorneys state that the pilot had repeatedly failed tests that…
A dozen or more contractors working at the nuclear power plant in Surry, Virginia (VA), were exposed to asbestos while removing pipes, the state’s Department of Labor and Industry has found. Fibers from insulation on poorly marked pipes escaped into the air and settled on workers’ clothes, the agency found. In a report on the…