A girl born at the naval hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia (VA), faces a lifetime of mental and physical disabilities stemming from cerebral palsy and other developmental problems. That much is indisputable. Other facts and conclusions from a birth injury lawsuit filed by the child’s parents against the federal government and the Portsmouth Naval Medical Center…
On August 20, 2009, the Virginia Board of Medicine issued an order permanently revoking a physician’s medical license. This revocation was in regards to the physician’s treatment of a 75-year-old patient with a history of radiation therapy for prostate cancer. The physician was a urologist at the Southwest Virginia Medical Center in Richlands, Virginia (VA), who treated the patient between October 2004 and…
Railroad crossing accidents involving a train and a car or truck can have devastating consequences. This was the case Monday in Charleston, West Virginia (WV), in what State Police are calling “a horrible accident.” A 16-year-old Branchland boy was driving alone when he came to a train crossing, where a southbound CSX train was approaching. …
Every day, headlines throughout the U.S. paint a grim picture of seniors who have been abused, neglected, and exploited, often by people they trust the most, the staff at the nursing home or assisted living facility they stay at. Just this week elderly women in New Brunswick wandered away from the facility, fell, and died. …
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported a severe trucking accident in which a man attempted to stop a truck, which then hit and ran over him. The fifty-seven year-old victim managed the campground where the truck was located. He attempted to get the female driver’s attention before the truck accident. He climbed on the running board of…