A Hampton Roads Transit Bus hit an HRT employee at the bus garage on 18th Street during the night of October 8, 2011, in Norfolk, Virginia (VA). The bus was in the process of getting cleaned and prepared for the next day’s routes. According to wvec.com, the employee suffered serious injuries and had to be taken to…
Medical advisors with Consumer Reports are recommending that people with type 2 diabetes take Takeda’s Actos (pioglitazone) only as a last resort. On June 15, 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that patients who took the medication for longer than a year can face a heightened risk for bladder cance.The prescription drug has…
Problems are mounting for a former Chatham, Virginia (VA), town councilman after he was injured in a crash involving a tractor-trailer that occurred one day after he was fined for filing a false police report. Fred Turner, 70, was driving east on VA 57 when he crossed into the path of the oncoming truck and clipped the…
In his latest post to our firm’s Norfolk, VA Car & Truck Accident Injury Lawyers blog site, my colleague Rick Shapiro reports on a workplace accident that sent a Hampton Roads Transit employee to the hospital with unspecified injures. Rick notes that mass transit safety concerns do not end when buses or light rail trains…
In his latest post to our firm’s North Carolina Injuryboard blog site, my colleague John C. tackles the thorny issue of issuing driver’s licenses to senior citizens. The question has come into new focus after a 95-year-old man killed one woman and injured two others when he lost control of his pickup truck in a…