Patients in nursing homes in West Virginia (WV) will find it easier to launch wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits following a recent state Supreme Court ruling. In a unanimous opinion, the court wrote that nursing homes shouldn’t be able to insert fine print into contracts to avoid getting taken to court if they are…
This week alone, there have been two different fatal single-vehicle accidents around the Williamsburg, Virginia (VA) area. The newest one occurred on July 15, 2011. This time, the accident was caused when a tire that blew out causing a truck to flip while it towed a camper. The driver and father of the family died and his wife,…
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a public notice encouraging doctors and patients to explore alternatives to implantable surgical mesh when repairing pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence. The conditions frequently occur after childbirth and pregnancy, and in 2010, more than 75,000 women had transvaginal surgery implant surgical mesh to repair POP. The warning comes…
Police are investigating a crash in July 2011 that left one person dead and two injured in Suffolk, VA, when the car fled after an officer tried to stop it for a traffic violation in the 1500 block of Holland Road, according to he Virginian-Pilot. One of the car’s passengers, a 36-year-old Franklin, Virginia woman,…
Student drivers are sometimes a nuisance on the road, their inexperience being as blatant as the big yellow sign on the top of their car. On July, 15, 2011, one student driver became more than a nuisance when she lost control of her car and crashed into a tree in Williamsburg, Virginia (VA), killing her…