A 39 year-old owner of a flooring company in Florida has sued AT&T after he was diagnosed with mesothelioma. Earlier in his work career, he had installed fiber optic cable for AT&T, and most of the cables were buried underground in cement pipes. As he disturbed the cables, asbestos dust was raised from the cement….
Approximately 10.5 square miles of Fairfax County, VA, a highly populated area adjacent to Washington, DC, contains ‘problem soils,’ which include naturally occurring asbestos. Fairfax County builders have to be wary of disturbing soils containing natural asbestos, and introducing asbestos fibers into the air can increase the risk of mesothelioma, a deadly cancer that attacks…
A Lincoln County, West Virginia woman is suing Michael Spindel, M.D., in Huntington for allegedly botching her breast augmentation surgery. The surgery was performed in May 2013, and the plaintiff states that Spindel was negligent and reckless in her surgery and follow up care. The lawsuit documents state that Spindel did not inform the woman…
The parents of a 24 year-old man from Virginia Beach, who committed suicide in 2012 after being prescribed large doses of Adderall, recently settled a $2 million lawsuit for $200,000. The wrongful death lawsuit involved former psychiatrist Waldo Ellison, who prescribed the 24 year-old man Adderall to treat his attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder when he was…
A Winston-Salem, North Carolina construction worker died last week in a boom lift accident, according to the Winston Salem Journal. The paper reported that the 65 year-old man was found unconscious and unresponsive on elevated train tracks running through the job site. According to police, the worker’s cherry picker was nearby. It appeared that he…