A group of friends were hanging out on Atlantic Avenue in Virginia Beach, VA, when an angry driver ran over the woman and the two men she was with. The woman was thrown over top of the car and had to spend three days in the hospital. One of the men, who was sent to…
In his latest post to our firm’s Norfolk Injuryboard blog site, my colleague Rick Shapiro comments on research showing that working with solvents containing TCE, PERC or CCL4 significantly raises a person’s risk for developing Parkinson’s disease. Rick writes that this link is particularly worrying for railroad workers who often use degreasing agents containing the…
Human medical errors hurt about 1.5 million in the United Sstates each year. Mistakes result in 100,000 health care-acquired infections, and these preventable injuries cause between 44,000 and 98,000 fatalities each year, according to Quantros. Limiting serious injuries to patients mean not only preventing medical errors, but also reporting and learning from adverse events when…
In November 2011, a New Hanover County, North Carolina (NC), elementary school teacher died due to injuries she suffered in a car accident. According to WWAY3, the wreck occurred not far from Laney High School when another driver crossed a center line and hit the teacher’s car. Moments later, a second vehicle struck the women’s car….
In October 2011, a 22-year-old Lorain, North Carolina man died from injuries sustained in a car accident in Asheville, North Carolina (NC). According to the Morning Journal, the man’s car was struck from behind by an SUV, and he and a passenger were taken to a hospital before the man succumbed to his injuries. The driver…