A pedestrian was seriously injured in early September 2011 when the driver of a Buick Century attempted to back into a handicapped parking space at the Durham County Main Library. According to the Herald Sun, the victim was dragged 30 feet and found bleeding on the pavement by firefighters who had him taken to Duke University Hospital…
In his latest post to our law firm’s VA-NC Medical Surgery Malpractice Blog, my colleague John C. reports that the family of a woman who died due to complications from anesthesia she received while undergoing Lap-Band implantation surgery has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. Named as defendants in the California (CA) case are the surgeon,…
Like a majority of Americans, I was saddened when the last-ever mission of the U.S. space shuttle program ended as the Atlantis touched down in Florida (FL) on July 21, 2011. More recently, I was surprised to learn that our country has not only lost its means for traveling into space for at least 6…
Few games are more dangerous than “car surfing,” or riding on the outside of a moving car, SUV or pickup truck. The craze is growing in popularity, but, sadly, car surfing nearly led to the death of a teenager in Gastonia, North Carolina (NC), who sustained a serious head injury on September 12, 2011.North Carolina Highway…
Early on September 14, 2011, a Shelby, North Carolina (NC), man died after his pickup truck ran off I-85 in Cherokee County and struck cable barriers. According to GoUpdate.com. the truck hit a fence and several trees before reentering the roadway, crossing two lanes of traffic and running onto the median and into the barriers….