In his latest post to our personal injury law firm’s Virginia Beach Injuryboard blog site, my colleague John C. joins with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in taking Black & Decker to task for delaying its recall of defective Grasshog XP trimmer/edgers that had caused more than 150 cut and laceration injuries. The toolmaker…
The Central Virginia Regional Crash Team now has a new 3-D laser technology that is thousands of times more precise than its previous technology. Whereas the team’s old imaging equipment only scanned 500 points, the new device scans an amazing 500 million points, even picking up things as minute as texture. The device also now allows…
A North Carolina man died during the first week in August 2011 when a lawn sprayer landed on top of him, according to the Daily Press. The fatal workplace accident occurred at the Cahoon Plantation golf course in Chesapeake, Virginia (VA), but neither co-workers nor investigators know why the machine trapped the man and compressed…
A June 24, 2011, accident in which a big rig crashed into a train in Nevada and killed six, has led to five lawsuits from injured passengers against the trucking company that employed the at-fault tractor-trailer driver. A countersuit has also been filed against the train operator and track owner. John Davis Trucking Co. of…
An Amtrak train slammed into a Jeep that was stuck on the tracks at a railroad crossing. The car-train wreck occurred at the intersection of Highway 52 and Redbank Road in Goose Creek, South Carolina (SC).The driver of the Jeep was taken to the hospital with injuries, as were three other people involved in the…