Maintaining safe railroad crossings is a primary responsibility for any rail company. My colleague Randy Appleton notes in his latest post to the Norfolk Injuryboard that CSX is not fully meeting this responsibility because it has repeatedly delayed making repairs to a sunken crossing on Rt. 17 in York County, Virginia (VA). When train crossing…
Recently, a Chatham County high school student died of trauma suffered from a car wreck. Although he struggled for life at the Duke University Hospital, tragically, the Siler City, North Carolina (N.C.) teen died from serious injuries resulting from when his pick-up truck ran off the road and struck a tree. Although it is still…
Williamsburg-area resident Steven Whitehead, 22, was killed Sunday when he lost control of his 2006 Pontiac in Williamsburg, WAVY-TV reported. Whitehead, who lived in the 100 bock of Autumn East in the Seasons Trace section of James City County, was westbound on East Rochambeau Drive, a Virginia State Police spokeswoman told the media. He lost…
Reports indicate there could be as many as 25,000 lawsuits filed against Bayer Corp. for their prescription birth control pills Yaz and Yasmin, according to bnd.com. In order to get a handle on all of this potential litigation, the United States Supreme Court decided to allow multi-district litigation (MDL). Basically, MDL means all of the Yaz and Yasmin lawsuits…
A young man went in for hip surgery at a Virginia (VA) hospital and came out forever changed due to an egregious medical error. The young man explicitly requested not to be given narcotic pain medication, but a nurse failed to adhere to this simple request and administered fentanyl (based on an order from a physician), according to…