My colleague Emily Mapp Brannon has posted a new blog on the Virginia Brain/Head Injuries Lawyers site on a new study of troops who suffered brain injuries from bomb blasts in Afghanistan and Iraq. It’s possible that these findings in the New England Journal of Medicine will help to identify people wjo are at higher risk for…
The bus crash that killed four women and injured 43 passengers in Virginia has highlighted a frightening problem in the industry — the lack of sleep bus drivers are getting. “The consequence is an entire industry populated by people not getting enough sleep,” Larry Hanley, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, which represents drivers at…
In his latest post to our firm’s Railroad Accident/FELA Lawyers Blog, my colleague Randy Appleton reports on a grade crossing collision between a Union Pacific freight train and a tractor-trailer near Paragould, Arkansas (AR), that left a conductor on the train with injuries. Randy notes that while media reports are focusing on how the semi’s…
In his latest post to the VA-NC Medical Surgery Malpractice Blog, my colleague John C. notes that President Barack Obama remains opposed to the idea of caps on the amount victims can be awarded by juries in medical malpractice cases. Our firm has repeatedly said caps such as the one in place in Virginia (VA)…
In his latest post to our firm’s Railroad Accident/FELA Lawyers Blog, my colleague Rick Shapiro welcomes a study of the health effects of chronic diesel fume exposure for people who live near a large BNSF rail yard in California (CA). Rick suspects the researchers will find that living within feet of a rail yard —…