My colleague Rick Shapiro has written a new post for our firm’s Norfolk, Portsmouth and Hampton, VA Injuryboard blog site about safety and passenger improvements planned and being made on Norfolk’s light rail system, the Tide. The improvements include new signs and traffic signals at an intersection that has already proved to be dangerous. But do the…
Takeda, which makes Actos (pioglitazone), the world’s best-selling type 2 diabetes pill, is facing lawsuits throughout the United States and a decline in sales as suspicions mount that taking the drug for longer than a year increases a patient’s risk for developing bladder cancer, according to AOL Healthy Living. In June 2011, the drug company, based…
Multaq (dronedarone) hit the market promoted as a prescription drug that could reduce the occurrence of atrial fibrillation and other heart rhythm disorders. On its website, Sanofi Aventis, the manufacturer of Multaq, proclaimed that the drug can work to lower the “chance that you would need to go to the hospital.” But Sanofi conventiently withheld the…
A man who killed a couple while driving under the influence of alcohol in Virginia Beach, VA, ended up in jail. The family of the people killed by his actions got only $200,000 after settling a lawsuit over the wrongful deaths. Christopher Dockiewicz, was convicted of driving under the influence and of two counts of aggravated…
If you ever get to meet any Blue Angel pilots in person, you would find that they are extremely precise and dedicated. They will tell you with bravado that the only reason they are able to fly their planes is because of the excellent enlisted technicians who service their planes before and after a show. In fact,…