Anytime you are a passenger in a vehicle, the responsibility for your safety rests with the driver. As adults, we can choose who we get into vehicles with. Children, however, have no such ability, and when we put our children on the school bus, we expect them to be safe. This is not always the…
For more than a quarter of a century a data bank used by insurers, medical boards and hospitals to find out if a doctors have been disciplined or had medical malpractice awards against them has been accessible to the public. But now, a government agency has removed the public use file from the National Practitioner Data Bank…
My colleague Emily Mapp Brannon has posted a new blog to our law firm’s Virginia Beach, Chesapeake and Suffolk Injuryboard site in which she discusses how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a new warning about the diabetes drug Actos and its possible link to bladder cancer. The potential links between Actos and bladder…
My colleague John C. has written a new post for our law firm’s Virginia Brain/Head Injury Lawyers blog about a study that could yield a blood test for quickly diagnosing concussions. The test for a protein called S100B could also help track brain health over time. DM
The pilot of a post-World War II plane died on September 18, 2011, after crashing at an air show in West Virginia (VA). The pilot’s aircraft hit a runway and burst into flames, according to msnbc.com. Luckily, no spectators were injured. The Journal of Martinsburg reported that the plane went out of control while flying…