It’s the kind of harrowing tragedy that no parent wants to think about. An accident in which a child died after falling off a fifth-floor balcony at an oceanfront hotel in Virginia Beach, Virginia (VA) on Friday night, June 17, 2011, has highlighted how dangerous balconies can be for young children. The toddler fell from a…
As summer vacation for Virginia Beach, VA, students officially begins this Friday, June 17, 2011, teens look forward to the freedom from school nights and homework. Unfortunately, underage drinking sometimes accompanies teen social activities. Around 3:45 am on Thursday morning, a teenage girl was seriously injured in an alcohol-related single-car crash that also left…
While 37-year-old Kin Yiu Cheung, the driver in last month’s fatal Virginia bus accident, has been charged with four counts of felony involuntary manslaughter, many safety advocates are wondering who is more to blame, the bus driver or the discount bus industry in which Cheung worked. According to many experts in the industry, the way…
A 14-year-old girl who lives just outside Elizabeth City, North Carolina (NC), is recovering from a fractured arm she suffered when she was riding her bicycle and got run into by an unidentified driver on the evening of June 13, 2011. The hit-and-run accident, for which officers from the North Carolina Highway Patrol are seeking…
In his latest post to our firm’s Virginia Beach Injuryboard blog, my colleague Rick Shapiro calls out Fox News and ABC commentator John Stossel for his hypocrisy and lack of journalistic integrity in advocating so-called “tort reform” while doing a supposed expose on the problems with personal injury law and consumer protection regulations. Rick catalogs…