In his latest post to our firm’s VA-NC Medical Surgery Malpractice Blog, my colleague Jim Lewis reports on a legal victory for a Florida (FL) woman who became paralyzed due to the negligence of three doctors who ignored her cries for help and missed what should have been a simple diagnosis of an injection-related injury…
Canadian National Railway has agreed to pay members of a Rockford, Illinois (IL), family a total of $36 million in settlements for wrongful death and injury claims stemming from a derailment and fire that investigators have linked to negligence by the railroad and its train crew. According to a detailed recreation of the June 19,…
Hanover, North Carolina (NC), home of the highest bicycle-motor vehicle crash rate of any county in North Carolina, from 2004 and 2008 has a yearly crash rate of 2.5 per 10,000 people. What’s behind all these bike and automobile accidents? Surprisingly Wilmington, North Carolina (NC) police say it’s the bicyclists that have been causing many of…
A Virginia personal injury lawyer secured a $175,000 settlement for a Navy man who was hit by a car while riding his motorcycle.
A Goose Creek, South Carolina (SC), woman has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol after hitting and injuring two firefighters who were assisting with the response to an earlier accident in which a car wound up in a ditch alongside U.S. Highway 176/James Avenue. The Charleston Post & Courier is reporting that…