It is estimated one-third of burn injuries in the United States happen to children. The North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center offers a weekend camp for children ages 7-15 who have survived burn injuries. Founded in 1982 in response to a need for traditional camping opportunities for young burn patients, Camp Celebrate is open to any…
In his latest post to our Carolina law firm’s Railroad Accident/FELA Lawyers Blog, my colleague John C. writes about a case in which an engineer for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway received a $2 million verdict. The engineer’s untreatable and potentially debilitating back injury after falling while operating one of the railroad’s locomotives. John notes…
A downed traffic light contributed to causing a deadly accident in eastern North Carolina as the winds and rains of Hurricane Irene lashed the central East Coast. A family returning to Northern Virginia after a vacation in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (SC), was traveling through North Carolina when the big storm hit and knocked out power…
Our police officers protect and serve the citizens of Virginia and North Carolina very well. Since they go from call to call helping people, they are on the road a lot. Many times, it is first responders and police who are injured while helping a disabled motorist or someone injured in a car accident. So…
A bar fight turned deadly when a man was intentionally struck several times by a vehicle, whos driver then fled the scene. Police responded to the hit-and-run accident at Winston-Saem’s Bar Los Gatos just after 2 am on August 20, 2011, to find the victim, Julio Caesar Chavez-Villalobos, lying in the parking lot and learned…