Lately because of the extreme weather coming out of Oklahoma, news has been grim but thanks to the Oklahoma Supreme Court there is a bright spot on the horizon for victims of medical malpractice. The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that tort reform laws passed in 2009 are unconstitutional. The court invalidated the entire bill including…
What Happened: From a news story on nbc12.com, a car accident on Arlington Boulevard in Arlington, Virginia resulted in one of the vehicles involved—a sewage truck—spilling toxic substance from its carrier and down nearby storm drains. Police reported that the Don’s Johns sanitation service truck collided with another vehicle, resulting in the five people in the latter…
A massive explosion shook the town of Rosedale MD when a train derailed and caught fire. According to reports from the Associated Press (AP), a CSX freight train, traveling through a railroad in the suburb of Baltimore, hit a garbage truck, derailed off the tracks and burst into flames. The driver of the garbage truck,…
Regina Turner, 53 years-old, entered the hospital for a “left-sided craniotomy bypass” operation. The Missouri woman, a former paralegal, began suffering from strokes five years ago and the surgery was supposed to prevent future strokes. But the neurosurgeon operated on the wrong side of her brain, performing a “right-sided craniotomy surgical procedure”. Once the operating…
The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles announced that commercial truck accidents continued to decline across the state in 2012.