One person was taken to the hospital after a car crash in early September 2011 on a Saturday morning. It happened about 2 am at North Davidson and 28th Street in the NoDa neighborhood in Charlotte, NC. According to wbtv.com, police said alcohol was a factor in the crash. Luckily, no one died in the accident. This…
A head-on car wreck outside the town of Brevard in Henderson County, North Carolina (NC), led to the death of four people. Reports cited in story on therepublic.com indicate a Nissan Sentra headed west on NC Highway 280 suddenly veered into the path of a Dodge Neon headed in the opposite direction. The occupants of the…
My colleague Emily Mapp Brannon has posted a new blog to our law firm’s Virginia Beach, Chesapeake and Suffolk Injuryboard site in which she discusses how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a new warning about the diabetes drug Actos and its possible link to bladder cancer. The potential links between Actos and bladder…
Future funding for six regional Amtrak services in Virginia has been put at risk by a new federal budget proposal that “threatens to end funding for regional Amtrak service at a time when Virginia is expanding passenger rail in the state and has no source of operating money for the trains,” the Virginian-Pilot reported. Although the…
There really is nothing more terrifying than being awoken in the middle of the night to the sound of a fire alarm. For nine families, this was the frightening reality when their dehumidifiers caught fire after the defective power connectors short-circuited. Thankfully, no one was killed, but that may only be a matter of time….