Hitting someone is bad, but fleeing the scene of the accident is reprehensible. Not only is this morally wrong, but it is illegal. Unfortunately, hit-and-run accidents still occur in North Carolina (NC). Take, for example, the recent accident that occurred in Burke County. Stephen and Kevin Moody, father and son respectively, were enjoying a ride…
In his latest post to our firm’s VA-NC Medical Surgery Malpractice Blog, my colleague John C. reports that a Pennsylvania man who suffered two perforated colon injuries because different doctors botched a colonoscopy and a repair surgery has won jury awards totaling $2 million from the physicians who made the surgical errors. John notes that…
Consuming alcohol before getting behind the wheel and then speeding is bad, but causing innocent passengers to suffer serious injuries because of those reckless actions is far worse. Unfortunately, that is what appears to have happened in the recent Clayton, North Carolina (NC) car wreck. Alcohol and excessive speed reportedly played a factor in a…
A 6-year-old boy has died from injures he suffered when his go-cart collided with a car off NC 111 in Chinquapin, North Carolina. The youngser apparently did not the other vehicle when he entered the roadway. Shockingly, the driver of the car was actually employed as a secretary at the elementary school the boy attended….
An accident at E.E. Smith High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina (NC), on October 25, 2011, sent three teens to area hospitals with burn injuries The advanced placement chemistry students had mixed and heated potassium nitrate and table sugar, and the mixture burst into flames. According to the Fayetteville Fire Department, other students were treated for injuries…