Less than two weeks after a homeless man died in a fire at the Terrific Fabric Care Company building on Campostella Road in Norfolk, Virginia (VA), the owner of the business has been charged with class I misdemeanors for not having a business license, not ensuring a smoke detector worked and blocking access to a…
Canadian National Railway has agreed to pay members of a Rockford, Illinois (IL), family a total of $36 million in settlements for wrongful death and injury claims stemming from a derailment and fire that investigators have linked to negligence by the railroad and its train crew. According to a detailed recreation of the June 19,…
In his latest post to our firm’s VA-NC Medical Surgery Malpractice Blog, my colleague Jim Lewis reports on a legal victory for a Florida (FL) woman who became paralyzed due to the negligence of three doctors who ignored her cries for help and missed what should have been a simple diagnosis of an injection-related injury…
Hanover, North Carolina (NC), home of the highest bicycle-motor vehicle crash rate of any county in North Carolina, from 2004 and 2008 has a yearly crash rate of 2.5 per 10,000 people. What’s behind all these bike and automobile accidents? Surprisingly Wilmington, North Carolina (NC) police say it’s the bicyclists that have been causing many of…
The Piedmont triad in North Carolina is home to 1.5 million people. Those people are about to get a lot more train and railroad traffic when Norfolk Southern begins offering six-day-a-week rail service between the Port of Virginia in Norfolk and Greensboro, N.C. This may mean nothing to residents now but what happens when that increase in train…