As Virginia (VA) personal injury attorneys we know that if a patient is injured by a defective medical device that a defective or faulty product claim is made and not a medical malpractice claim. Sometimes there is some confusion about this because it is a physician that implants a device in a patient. Lately there…
After the latest airbag recall involving 34 million vehicles, we might be forgiven for thinking that the Takata Corporation has always only been in the airbag business. Not so. It was founded in 1933 in Japan and it at first made lifelines for parachutes. After World War II, the company started to produce seatbelts. It…
Many railroad companies have proposed in recent months to eliminate conductors from trains, which would leave just a single engineer aboard large freight trains. Most engineers do not want this, as they argue as this could lead to more train derailment disasters, such as the one that happened in Quebec in 2013, killing 47. In…
A commercial truck driver in Virginia lost control of his big rig on I-81, which left two people with serious injuries. Virginia State Police stated that the tractor trailer rolled over on I-81 north near Harrisonburg. The truck driver was in the left lane when he lost control of the truck, ran off the highway…
A ski boat crash on Cheat Lake, northeast of Morgantown, West Virginia (WV), on Memorial Day 2015 sent 12 people to hospitals with injuries. Three of the individuals who had been aboard the 23-foot motorboat when it slammed into the shore close to Sunset Beach Marina sustained critical injuries. No immediate explanations for…