Medical advisors with Consumer Reports are recommending that people with type 2 diabetes take Takeda’s Actos (pioglitazone) only as a last resort. On June 15, 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that patients who took the medication for longer than a year can face a heightened risk for bladder cance.The prescription drug has…
In his latest post to our firm’s Norfolk, VA Car & Truck Accident Injury Lawyers blog site, my colleague Rick Shapiro reports on a workplace accident that sent a Hampton Roads Transit employee to the hospital with unspecified injures. Rick notes that mass transit safety concerns do not end when buses or light rail trains…
Wendell Potter spoke in Virginia Beach, VA, about the true motivation for insurance companies, emphasizing that it’s not patient care.
Most people believe that a trial by jury is a fundamental right of all Americans and that when a jury submits its verdict, the case is over. Unfortunately, some defense lawyers do everything they can to deny compensation to a victim, even after a jury has rendered its verdict. This is exactly what happened when 53-year-old…
The Virginia bus accident trial of 37-year-old Kin Yiu Cheung is set to begin in January, but now the bus driver will be facing fewer charges. According to the Associated Press and the Virginian-Pilot, one of the prosecutors in the case has announced that they will drop the misdemeanor reckless driving charge in order to…