My law partner, Rick Shapiro, posted an article at our Va. Beach Injuryboard blog covering the Federal Railroad Administriation’s emergency ban on cell phone use by railroad locomotive crews, which takes effect on October 27, 2008. He has interesting comments about railroad’s efforts to reduce crew size and how this affects some of the new rules.
Law firm partner, Rick Shapiro, wrote an interesting article on how computer “nanotubes” have been linked to potential lung lining fatal cancers, such as mesothelioma, for the full article click our injury board Nanotube article at
Did you know that the nation’s railroad workers are not covered by worker’s compensation, but instead can settle with, or sue their employers for injuries or diseases that are occupational? Railroad workers fall under a special federal law enacted in the early 1900’s called the Federal Employers Liability Act which is vastly different than workers…
As a lawyer in a firm of seasoned attorneys, I always take pride when one of my colleagues is featured in the Virginia Lawyers Weekly for a noteworthy case. This week, Virginia Lawyers Weekly published a summary of attorney Rick Shapiro’s $1,500,000.00 settlement in a very interesting case. Our client was a commercial airline pilot who…
Our personal injury law firm, based in Virginia, is currently handling a case where a railroad worker, who was sent into a new geographical work area, was not warned that he was dismounting and getting off his train in pitch darkenss virtually right on top of a bridge over a ditch/water run off area. When…