Attorney Takes on Misleading Chamber of Commerce Advertisements
The issue of frivolous lawsuits reached the spotlight during the healthcare debate and is now front and center in new advertisements by the Chamber of Commerce.
The issue of frivolous lawsuits reached the spotlight during the healthcare debate and is now front and center in new advertisements by the Chamber of Commerce.
My focus on railroad injury law requires me to spend time each time day scanning the Web for news stories regarding injuries involving rail workers, train passengers and collisions between trains and cars, trucks or pedestrians. Too often, I come across stories like the one about Orange County, California (CA), brothers who became critically injured…
An estimated 25,000 house fires are caused by space heaters each year. A group sharing a house in Virginia Beach learned this first hand on Jan. 4, 2010, when their electric space heater ignited flammable materials. My colleague Rick Shapiro takes note of this incident–in which, fortunately, no one was hurt–in his latest post to…
Nursing homes have a high duty to meet the safety and health needs of their residents. This principle was recently upheld in separate cases in New York (NY) and Missouri (MO). In the New York case, a family won a $19 million jury verdict against the company that operated the Brooklyn Queens Nursing Home in…
This blog focuses on the various rules that must be adhered to if you plan to file a claim against a city or government entity.