In a December 2008 edition of the Norfolk, Virginia (VA) based paper, The Virginian Pilot, the business section reported that Norfolk Southern Railroad (NS) was cutting costs by reducing the number of workers and other measures aimed to keep corporate profits and stock prices high.
factual aviation crash report issued by the National Transportation Safety Board concludes that a pilot killed this spring in an aircraft crash, while fighting a fire in Fort Carson, Colorado, repeatedly warned officials that winds were too high and strong, but was urged by officials to push on.
The new strategy for railroads in railroad worker personal injury cases
(FELA cases), is to try to reduce the sums juries are requiring them to
pay by filing legal motions that ask judges to give them a “setoff” or
“credit” for the amount of money the railroad has paid to the Railroad
Retirement Board (RRB) for the employer’s portion of RRB Tier II
benefits (paid in the past by the railroad to the RRB).
Juries do not have sympathy for drunk drivers who cause serious personal injuries, whether in Virginia (VA), North Carolina (NC) or elsewhere. Even in a case of very small medical bills, a recent Virginia jury in a conservative state court jurisdiction granted a $281,000 verdict for a teenager injured in a car accident hit by a totally drunk driver with a .32% blood alcohol content (BAC).
Grant Park Care Center in Washington, D.C., has been the center of several investigations and complaints of nursing home negligence. Now an emergency room doctor has come forward with shocking stories about the condition of patients from the adult care facility.