My colleague Jim Lewis has written a new post for our firm’s VA/NC Medical Surgery Malpractice blog about how doctors and other heath care professionals in Virginia received $7.8 million from dug companies in 2010. The donations have led consumer groups to question the cozy relationship between doctors and pharmaceutical manufacturers and to ask whether the…
Two months after a tragic car accident, a driver from James City County has been charged with reckless driving in Williamsburg. In July 2011, Diep Thi Ngoc Le was taking a road test to receive her driver’s license. She was driving on Parkway Drive when she lost control of her 1998 Honda sedan. She ended…
The idea of tolls appearing on Virginia’s busy and often dangerous I-95 has moved a step closer after Virginia Gov, Bob McDonnell announced preliminary federal approval of the plan. The move was revealed in a September 14, 2011, letter in which Federal Highway Administration Administrator Victor Mendez granted “conditional provisional approval” for the tolls proposal, the…
We all witnessed the shocking news of Michael Jackson’s death last year, and many people were alarmed to learn of just how many prescription drugs he’d been taking. Now, his doctor is on trial on charges of wrongful death for negligence. This isn’t a problem limited to Hollywood – prescription drug related deaths are being…
Whether it’s in Virginia Beach, Norfolk or Newport News, Virginia (VA), as you drive around town, sooner or later you’ll see someone run a red light right. That becomes all the more irritating when the red light runner slows down for a yellow light and then decides to gun it at the last minute to…