Cape Henry Collegiate School in Virginia Beach, Virginia (VA) received an unexpected visitor on Saturday, Sept. 5 when an airplane suddenly landed on their baseball field. The plane was a single-engine Cessna operated by a single individual. As the Cessna landed on the field, the plane flipped over, but the operator escaped without injuries and,…
The new North Carolina law banning text messaging and driving went into effect in December of last year, but police are struggling to enforce the new law and many drivers are struggling to put down their cell phone and concentrate on the road. While the vast majority of North Carolina drivers agree that texting is…
Suffering a miscarriage is one of the most heartbreaking, emotionally jarring experiences a woman can go through. So many questions infiltrate the mind like, “Why did this happen to me?” and “Could I have done something to prevent this from happening?” Some women are completely distraught after such a tragic event. Unfortunately, many women may…
Finding for the victim in a medical malpractice case, a jury in Arlington County, Virginia awarded $1,894,037 in May, 2010. The medical negligence claim revolved around the failure of a doctor to detect the metastasis of cancer when reviewing CT scan of the man’s lungs. The 70-year-old man with a history of melanoma had been ordered…
A car crash on Leesburg Pike in Virginia (VA) in April 2007 resulted in a jury award of $2.04M. The 30-year-old plaintiff, Daniel Norton, went from being a young man who enjoyed an athletic, fit lifestyle to someone in constant pain likely to last the rest of his life. A contractor for the government, Norton ran miles…