According to the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department, a woman from Martinsburg, West Virginia (WV) was killed in a car and truck crash on Saturday, January 8th, 2011. The accident was reported at 9:13 a.m. that morning, and the victim, Kimberly Bail, was pronounced dead at the scene. The blue Chevy Cavalier that she was driving…
The City of Virginia Beach has been dismissed from a $25 million lawsuit filed by the family of a homeless man killed on the beach by a city garbage truck, WAVY.com has reported. On June 28, Michael Knockett, 52, was run over by a city owned truck while sleeping on a beach chair. Knockett’s family…
On August 20, 2009, the Virginia Board of Medicine issued an order permanently revoking a physician’s medical license. This revocation was in regards to the physician’s treatment of a 75-year-old patient with a history of radiation therapy for prostate cancer. The physician was a urologist at the Southwest Virginia Medical Center in Richlands, Virginia (VA), who treated the patient between October 2004 and…
It sounds like a science-fiction novel. A woman feels no fear, not from armed robbers, spiders, rats, snakes….not from anything. When we hear that someone has “brain damage” we often think of a person in an unresponsive coma. However, brain damage comes in many forms. Take the brain injury of an ordinary mother of three…
The family of a forklift operator who spent several years hauling bags of asbestos at a Baltimore, Maryland (MD), National Gypsum warehouse has received a $1.2 million verdict against the maker of the asbestos following the man’s death from mesothelioma. A jury ruled on November 23, 2010, that Union Carbide must pay the award because…