The House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee held a hearing this week to talk about the Transportation Department’s proposed rule to alter the current federal commercial trucking regulations regarding hours of service. The subcommittee heard speakers from the both sides of the issue, including economists, those in the trucking industry, and traffic safety advocates. The proposed…
A parent’s worst nightmare may well be getting a call from police telling them that their child has been injured or killed. Sadly, the parent’s of a 17-year old Virginia Beach, VA, boy received that call in early December 2011 and will be mourning instead of celebrating during the holiday season. The teen was killed…
A South Riding man was killed in a head-on accident on Lee Highway in Manassas, Virginia. An out-of-control dump truck is to blame for the crash.
The federal appeals court in Norfolk, Virginia (VA), on December 8, 2011, upheld a $900,000 malpractice award a woman from Portsmouth had won from Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center. In the original case, stemming from a botched Caesarean section conducted to deliver the woman’s fourth child in 2005, the woman and her Norfolk attorney, Kim Michelle…
In a post to our personal injury firm’s Virginia Trucking Accident/Injury Blog, lawyer Kevin Duffan reports on a head-on collision between a Sussex County sheriff deputy’s cruiser and another vehicle that sent both the deputy and the other driver to the hospital with serious injuries. Kevin notes that the officer had been responding to a…