My colleague, recently posted an article on the Norfolk Injury Board regarding some remarkable technology breakthroughs that will help restore freedom to quadriplegic accident victims. A month-long experiment at the unversity of Pittsburg ended with a quadriplegic man moving a robotic arm with his mind. OEA
More than twice the electricity a condemned prisoner receives after being strapped into an electric chair — 7,600 volts — was the amount a Greene County, Alabama (AL), man received when his vehicle hit a low-hanging power line. After years of constant pain in his right arm, the man has successfully won $1.5 injury verdict…
When someone goes jogging, he or she expects to get some exercise, not to get hit by a car. Unfortunately, that happened to a man in Wilmington, North Carolina (NC). He was hit and killed by an SUV at the intersection of Gordon and North College roads by an SUV driver who reportedly ran a red light….
Virginia (VA), along with the rest of the nation, has been experiencing an increase in the number of deadly motorcycle accidents. In fact, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration found that the number of motorcycle fatalities nearly doubled between 1997 and 2005. The smaller size of a motorcycle and increased area of rider exposure puts a…
On October 1, 2011, a woman died and two others were injured after a 95-year-old pickup truck driver from Virginia, age 95, struck them in a Smithfield, North Carolina (NC), Walmart parking lot. The age of the driver has concerned some lawmakers about the risks posed by very elderly drivers. Already in North Carolina, anyone 70…