When elderly loved ones develop health issues we can no longer help them with, we often turn to nursing homes, assisted living communities and senior living facilities to care for them. Sadly, many of the employees at these facilities have been known to abuse their residents. After suspecting abuse, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (PA), woman decided…
In his latest post to our firm’s Newport News, VA Car & Truck Accident Injury Lawyers blog site, my colleague Jim Lewis shares the sad news of a car accident in which one Marine was killed and several suffered serious and minor injuries. The wreck occurred at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown in Virginia as the…
The dangers of compressed gas have been outlined in a U.S. Chemical Safety Boardr eport on three accidents at DuPont’s Belle chemical manufacturing plant in West Virginia (WV), which included the fatal release of phosgene gas. Fire Engineering reported. Phosgene was the poison released by many gas artillery shells during World War I. In the fatal…
A man’s body was found shortly after 3 am pn October 14, 2011, at the railroad tracks at 23rd and Granby streets in Norfolk, Virginia (VA). Investigators are treating the case as an undetermined death and believe the victim was hit and killed by a Norfolk Southern train. Our thoughts go out to the victim’s family and loved ones. Losing someone you love…
Each morning, the Marines of the 2nd Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team (FAST Company, Marine Security Force Regiment go running as part of a rigorous physical training routine. Tragically, one Marine in Yorktown, Virginia (VA) will never get to return to his team after he died when a car crashed into a group of 44 Marines running…