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Norfolk, VA Personal Injury Attorney Reports: $800,000 Settlement Reached Over Wrongful Death of Psychiatric Patient

Virginia Lawyers Weekly reports that an $800,000 settlement was obtained against a psychiatric hospital in a wrongful death lawsuit after one of its patients committed suicide.  As summarized in the magazine, the patient had been voluntarily admitted to the hospital because he was experiencing an overwhelming sense of dread and hearing voices telling him to hurt himself….

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Norfolk, VA Personal Injury Attorney Reports: Parkinson’s Risk for Railroaders Working With Solvents

In his latest post to our firm’s Norfolk Injuryboard blog site, my colleague Rick Shapiro comments on research showing that working with solvents containing TCE, PERC or CCL4 significantly raises a person’s risk for developing Parkinson’s disease. Rick writes that this link is particularly worrying for railroad workers who often use degreasing agents containing the…

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