In late April 2012, jurors in San Luis Obispo, California (CA), ordered a doctor to pay a family $74 million in compensatory and punitive damages after finding that negligence by the physician during their daughter’s delivery created a situation that allowed the child to develop cerebral palsy. The medical malpractice lawyer for the family, Nicholas…
The Fourth of July is one of the busiest nights of the year for drunk driving arrests. One such arrest took a bad turn in Hampton, Virginia (VA), when a state trooper’s cruiser was hit from behind on the shoulder of I-64 while processing a suspected drunk driver. The police officer and the suspect were…
Two boats crashed on the Cashie River in Bertie County, North Carolina (NC), when their drivers, who had been cruising in opposite were unable to turn in time to avoid the collision. Travis Jackson, William Tadlock, Amanda Vincent, J.B. Baker and Mark Yoder were taken to local hospitals, but none of their injuries appeared to be…
After Virginia State Police Trooper L. Aviles pulled over a driver suspected of driving drunk on I-64 near North King Street in Hampton, Virginia (VA), his cruiser and the stopped vehicle were struck from behind by a 2006 Ford Mustang driven by a Newport News resident. Both Aviles and the DUI suspect were injured in the…
Five people were injured on June 28, 2012, when two car crashed on the South Boston Highway near Milton Highway in in Ringgold, Virginia (VA). The injured included three children, but none of the injuries appeared life-threatening. According to police, the accident happened because one driver was speeding and failed to see the other vehicle….