In his latest post to our firm’s Railroad Accident/FELA Lawyer Blog, my colleague Rick Shapiro reports on a crash between an Amtrak train and a large commercial truck that left the engineer with a back injury and also required two passengers to seek medical attention. The collision occurred when the big rig failed to completely…
The old saw “There are no bad dogs, just bad owners” may never get a better real-life illustration than an animal attack in Virginia Beach, on March 10, 2012. According to police reports, a sheepdog — identified as a good pet because of its almost complete lack of aggression — bit two teenaged girls on…
In a decision that the plaintiff rail employee’s attorney Charles Goetsch is calling the first of its kind, a jury in New Haven, Connecticut (CT), on March 22, 2012, awarded $1 million in punitive damages to a Metro-North commuter railroad trackman who was fired shortly after reporting a serious on-the-job toe injury. Jurors considered the…
In his latest post to our firm’s Virginia Brain/Head Injury Lawyers blog site, my colleague Randy Appleton reports on a car accident in Teays Valley, West Virginia (VA), that sent an 11-year-old bike rider to a hospital with injuries. Randy notes that the child’s father rather than the at-fault driver, has been charged in connection…
An experienced North Carolina attorney with the Shapiro, Washburn & Sharplaw firm recently reported that Bayer Healthcare agreed to compensate nearly 70 women who sued the drugmaker after developng life-threatening blood clots while taking Yaz and Yasmin birth control pills. To learn more, read “Bayer Settles Dozens of Yaz, Yasmin Blood Clot Cases.” MK