A new kind of hip replacement device cleared for marketing in the United States in 2003 came with the promise of better performance, longer useful life and fewer post-surgery complications than earlier models of the medical device that some 120,000 Americans have implanted each year. Those promises soon became nightmares for as many 13 percent…
APM Terminals in Portsmouth, Virginia (VA), saw its seventh on-the-job fatality in the past six years on March 28, 2011, when a forklift driver drove over a stevedore. The accident took the life of 38-year-old Ceres Marine Terminals employee Paula Bellamy. She was struck by containers being carried on the fork while she was guiding…
A new trend in emergency rooms may reduce misdiagnosis of elderly patients. A few new hospitals are opening ERs specially designed for seniors, without all the confusion and clamor and with a little more comfort. But the real question is whether they’ll truly improve care. Misdiagnosis is when the physician doesn’t realize that the patient…
In his latest post to our firm’s Virginia Brain/Head Injury Lawyers blog, my colleague John C. reports on a criminal case in Newport News, Virginia (VA), in which the operator of a home-based day care is facing felony charges of child neglect for either causing or allowing skull fractures to an 8-month-old infant she was…
In his latest post to our firm’s Norfolk Legal Examiner, my colleague Rick Shapiro excoriates Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell for vetoing a bill that would have gradually raised the state-mandated cap on damage awards in medical malpractice cases. Rick urges lawmakers to either override the veto of H.B. 1449 or to reintroduce the legislation when…